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"-y" in a Sentence (42 examples)

mess + -y → messy

mouse + -y → mousy

blue + -y → bluey

clay + -y → clayey

tree + -y → treey

hole + -y → holey

sponge + -y → spongy

cake + -y → caky

dice + -y → dicey

guts + -y → gutsy

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Tim keeps trying to make it all more impressionistic, less computer-y.

run + -y → runny

panic + -y → panicky

twiddle + -y → twiddly

gran(nam) + -y → granny

pin(afore) + -y → pinny

(s)tom(ach) + -y → tummy

And(rew) + -y → Andy

Bill + -y → Billy

John + -y → Johnny

Jones + -y → Jonesy

love + -y → lovey

fridge + -y → fridgy (“fridge magnet”)

junk + -y → junky

town + -y → towny

bald + -y → baldy

dum(b) + -y → dummy

right + -y → righty

alright + -y → alrighty

oops + -y → oopsy

right + -y → righty

wake + -y → wakey

modest + -y → modesty

honest + -y → honesty

-nym + -y → -nymy

as in toponym + -y → toponymy

-logue + -y → -logy

as in analogue + -y → analogy

Italy, Germany, Saxony, Hungary, Sicily, Lombardy, Tuscany, Albany, Brittany, Gascony, Burgundy, Picardy, Normandy, Romandy, Savoy, Muscovy, Tartary, Arcady, Thessaly, Troy, Turkey.

But thee, thee wut ruckee, and ſquattee, and doatee in the chimly coander lick an axwaddle; and wi’ the zame tha wut rakee up, and gookee, and tell doil, tell dildrams and buckingham jenkins.

Where's your Tom now? Au! he do worky down to factory— he've a-workèd to the gig's two year

d. wiː də ˈbɽɪŋ æʊɽ ˈʃiːp ɪn l̴ami / ‘We bring our sheep in (to) lamb.’ (36 Co 6, book I)

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