billowy

billowy

English

Etymology

billow +‎ -y

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɪ.ləʊ.(w)i/
• Rhymes: -ɪləʊ(w)i

Adjective

billowy (comparative billowier, superlative billowiest)

1. swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.
   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 58

     [...] Tiare clasped me to her vast bosom, so that I seemed to sink into a billowy sea, and pressed her red lips to mine.

Translations

full of billows or surges

German: wellig, wogend (de) Maori: tāpokopoko

Turkish: dalga dalga (tr), dalgalı (tr)

References

• billowy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.