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Dewy

//ˈdjuː.i// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Covered by dew.

    "His mildly vivid dewy beam Of beryl to diffuse: the gleam With elf-light tiniest figures lit Of shapely moon-fair elves who sit Each on a gemmy blade's curled tip In circle."

  2. 2
    Having the quality of bearing droplets of water.

    "In the dewy fog, it was cold and damp."

  3. 3
    Resembling or characteristic of dew.
  4. 4
    Fresh and innocent.

    "1814, 16 March, Percy Bysshe Shelley letter to Hogg, Thy Gentle Face Thy dewy looks sink in my breast Thy gentle words stir poison there;"

Adjective
  1. 1
    wet with dew wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English dewy, deuhy, from Old English dēawiġ, from Proto-West Germanic *dauwag, *dauwīg, equivalent to dew + -y.

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