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afterglowy

adj

Etymology

From afterglow + -y.

  1. derived from *ǵʰleh₁-✻ — “to shine, glow; to be shining, glowing”
  2. inherited from *glōaną✻ — “to glow”
  3. derived from *glówa✻
  4. inherited from *glōan✻ — “to glow”
  5. inherited from glōwan — “to glow”
  6. inherited from glouen
  7. prefixed as afterglow — “after + glow”
  8. suffixed as afterglowy — “afterglow + y”

Definitions

  1. Exhibiting afterglow

    Exhibiting afterglow; resembling or pertaining to (chiefly metaphorical) afterglow.

    • Hell, it was only eight hours since he'd been kissing her goodnight, all afterglowy and affectionate.
    • The line was: “Now I know what I’ve been faking all these years,” purred by an afterglowy Goldie Hawn to a dreamboaty Armand Assante in “Private Benjamin” (1980).

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