achy

adj
/ˈeɪ.ki/

Etymology

From ache + -y.

  1. inherited from *akiz
  2. inherited from *aki
  3. inherited from *akaną — “to ache
  4. inherited from *akan
  5. inherited from acan
  6. inherited from aken
  7. suffixed as achy — “ache + y

Definitions

  1. With or suffering from aches

    With or suffering from aches; sore.

    • The achy path leads downhill, bump bump bump, rocks jagged and the climate wetter and colder, till I’m toothless, beyond pain, on a frosty skerry beach, my fingers numb, my lungs flapping like dead leaves.
    • Sora, his cinematographer, Bill Kirstein, and the composer Lia Ouyang Rusli capture the achy pleasures of youthful friendship and the tectonic frictions of the personal, the political and the geological.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for achy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA