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thawy en · ADJ

Etymology

From thaw + -y.

Meanings

1. Becoming liquid; thawing; inclined to or tending to thaw.
2. Conducive to thawing.
   • A warm and broken December had been succeeded by a still warmer and more thawy January. 1845, Daniel Pierce Thompson, Locke Amsden, Or, The Schoolmaster: a Tale, published 1855, page 96:
   • It has been more thawy to day but there was not much prospect that the weather will be favorable right away. c. 1847, Elkanah Walker, edited by Clifford Merrill Drury, Nine Years with the Spokane Indians: The Diary, 1838-1848, of Elkanah Walker, published 1976, page 392:
   • The N.W., which is the most frequent in winter, is dry, cold, and elastic; the S.E. soft, thawy, and rainy: the wind seldom blows from west or south, more rarely still from the north. 1844, Robert Montgomery Martin, History, Statistics and Geography of Upper and Lower Canada, page 201:

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