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geysery en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈɡaɪzəɹi/ (UK)
• /ˈɡiːzəɹi/ (UK)

Etymology

From geyser + -y.

Meanings

1. Like a geyser.
   • Bears groaned and shuffled about backstage, a moose looked at me with complete skepticism, and on a visit to Old Faithful — the venerable geyser that obligingly blows its top every 94 minutes or so — I saw a little girl with her mother, picking her way through the geysery, thin-crust landscape and singing, like some kind of gnome from the future, the chorus of Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood.” 2015 September 22, James Parker, “Why Read Books Considered Obscene?”, in The New York Times:
   • I was a little disappointed to have lost the light, for I'd pictured the springs as bubbling, roiling, geysery things, clear-pure and alive. 2009, Steve Hockensmith, The Crack in the Lens, page 144:

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