weathery
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Accompanied by or featuring wind and/or precipitation.
adj
Worn or otherwise affected by weather; (of a person's features or body) showing signs of age or wear.
adj
Lacking in flavour as a result of the leaves having been harvested during mid-season rains. (of tea)
Example Sentences
- "In weathery days, when near, I loot thee in;"
- "1960, Joseph Sargent Hall, Smoky Mountain Folks and their Lore, Asheville, NC: The Cataloochee Press, Great Smoky Mountains Natural History Association, Chapter 10, p. 67, Weather often means bad weather, a rain or snow storm: […] one may hear: “There’s no need of you goin’ out, it’s so weathery.”"
- "Between a film of weathery sky and a relatively quiet ebb tide of water near at hand like dar, dense surging waves […]"
- "“It’s just that some people said it was a weathery day. It was foggy but it wasn’t weathery. It was a calm day, Mr Dove. A calm day.”"
- "The people who lived in the village saw the house high in its weathery notch on the long ridge to the north, storm clouds fisting about it, or the white cumuli bunching past on their way to somewhere else,"
- "[…] Bill slapped with all his might and main, on his leather old weathery cheek, enough to break his jaw."
Etymology
From weather + -y.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more weathery (comparative)
most weathery (superlative)