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graveyardy

adj

Etymology

From graveyard + -y.

  1. derived from *gʰerdʰ-✻ — “to enclose”
  2. inherited from *gʰórdʰos✻
  3. inherited from *gardaz✻ — “enclosure, yard”
  4. inherited from *gard✻
  5. inherited from ġeard — “yard, garden, fence, enclosure”
  6. inherited from yerd
  7. formed as graveyard — “grave + yard”
  8. suffixed as graveyardy — “graveyard + y”

Definitions

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a graveyard.

    • You can’t think how horrid and—and sort of fungusy she makes things. The whole hall smells of her dreadful crape. And she’s worse than papa ’bout Sundays, and has such a graveyardy way of talking.
    • Here we have had to overcome the prejudice in the minds of some that evergreens have a “graveyardy” effect. This prejudice is also due to the fact that only the commoner kinds of arbor-vitaes and cedars have been used.

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