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thymey en · ADJ

Etymology

From thyme + -y.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of the herb thyme; having the aroma or flavour of thyme.
   • All of us have read, no doubt, of the honey of Mount Hybla, of which the thymey flavour has been so much extolled by the ancient poets […] 1886 January 1, “Bee-Keeping in New Zealand”, in The Bee-Keepers' Record, volume IV, London: Houlston & Sons, page 10:
2. Covered with or abounding in thyme.
   • Once in the wind of morning I ranged the thymy wold; The world-wide air was azure And all the brooks ran gold. 1896, Alfred Edward Housman, “The Merry Guide”, in A Shropshire Lad:
   • The happy land of Narnia—Narnia of the heathery mountains and the thymy downs […] 1954, C. S. Lewis, chapter 1, in The Horse and His Boy, Collins, published 1998:
   • What time the mighty moon was gathering light Love paced the thymy plots of Paradise, And all about him roll'd his lustrous eyes; 1830, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Love and Death:

Forms

Synonyms

thymelike (resembling thyme)