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groundy en · ADJ · etymology 1

Etymology

From Middle English groundi, equivalent to ground + -y.

Meanings

  1. (rare) Of or relating to the ground; earthly
    • Nasturtiums beat out loudest reds in groundier earthings, a clash of hot orange contestants. 2004, Jeremy Reed, Duck and Sally Inside:
    • They never dreamed of that, yet it is as certainly true as truth itself! They cannot see these splendid things, because their visual range is groundy, while these lofty truths are at their base anchored in the substance of the human soul, and held there by a cable, Love, whose other end girdles the Infinite God! 1896, Paschal Beverly Randolph, Eulis!:
    • On one end of the garden the kids have built a farm with hills and ditches and stone fences and grass clippings for hay. They sure play in that a lot. The only trouble is they get so groundy. The kids brought home lots of wild grapes and elderberries this year. I think that one week all I did besides the usual stuff was make jelly. Those fruits are slow to work with. 2014, Atina Diffley, Turn Here Sweet Corn:

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groundiest Degree=Sup lexicographic
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groundy en · ADJ · etymology 2

Etymology

From ground + -y.

Meanings

  1. Like or characteristic of grounds; coarse
    • So having given us some of the groundiest coffee it has ever been my fortune to encounter, and some cigarettes like his own, which were capital smoking, he sat and looked at us till we did not think that we were getting any ' forarder.' 1891, Walter J. Clutterbuck, About Ceylon and Borneo:
    • It is this fat that gives his flesh a groundy taste. When the meat is freed of fat, it is both tender and delicious. It tastes not unlike dark meat of turkey. 1921 Jan, Boys' Life, volume 11, number 1:
    • So, from an examination of the taste and smell of coffees, the taster knows if a coffee is “soft” or “hard” or “Rioy”; if it is sound or fermented (from improper curing); if it is groundy or mouldy or “hidey.” Coffee is often bought “on description.” 1921, Scribner's Magazine, volume 70:
    • Procure a green-backed, fresh-water pike of about five pounds (the darker ones are generally soft and have a groundy taste) ; […]) 1884, Felix J. Déliée, The Franco-American Cookery Book:
    • There wasn't much difference, except that the coffee wasn't so groundy. 1914, Richard Dehan, The Cost of Wings:

Forms

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most groundy Degree=Sup lexicographic
groundier Degree=Cmp lexicographic
groundiest Degree=Sup lexicographic
more groundy Degree=Cmp lexicographic