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Valentinesy en · ADJ

Etymology

From Valentine's (ellipsis of Valentine's Day) + -y.

Meanings

1. (informal) Characteristic of Saint Valentine's Day.
   • Flora pulled on a pair of her favorite jeans, choosing a long-sleeve, pink-hearted shirt over the black turtleneck she really wanted to wear. Wrapping a yellow scarf around her neck, she stepped into her Wellies. She was not feeling very Valentinesy. 2016 February 3, Angela Hayes, “Chapter 12”, in Got Love?, Wild Rose Press, →ISBN:
   • I'm showcasing a few of their more Valentinesy pieces because, well, it's February. 2007 February 2, Yahoo! Alerts, “Y! Alert: Google Blog Search: design”, in Financial Alert (Google Groups), 45c329bd.103b5182.1370.ffff83f4SMTPIN_ADDED@mx.google.com:
   • But I preferred jeans over my church dresses, and I’d worn my favorite pale-pink thermal shirt, which I had reasoned was sorta Valentinesy. 2016 July 19, C.C. Payne, “Chapter 16”, in The Thing About Leftovers, Penguin Young Readers Group, →ISBN, page 108:
   • I do find Valentine's Day slightly irritating, however, in the sense that single people seem encouraged to be depressed and couples jubilant. It is possible to be in a shitty relationship and to be happily by yourself. OK, those for whom the former is applicable may get to do Valentinesy things, but they've got to stick the rest of the year together. 2004 February 14, Rebecca Loader, “Re: Valentine's Day”, in alt.uk.a-levels (Usenet), message-ID <c0m418$18tfko$1@ID-34541.news.uni-berlin.de>:
   • Sela Ward’s thick red scarf, dirty gloves and brass bell — the traditional costume of the medieval leper — missed the mark at the 2003 Golden Globes. But don’t tell her that: ‘It’s fun and festive and Valentinesy and red,’ the former Once and Again star told Portable Altamont. 2005, Brian Joseph Davis, “The Worst Dressed at the Golden Globes”, in Portable Altamont, Coach House Books, →ISBN:

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