Adjective: breezey
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | breezier |
| Superlative | breeziest |
Perifrastic
Sample Sentences
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Where Zephirs ſweep their breezey gales, / And fragrant blooms perfumes the vales, / With varied ſweets, gay nature charms, / But not like thoſe in Anna’s arms, / The ſoftly dimpling ſtream that plays, / Meand‘ring ſweetly murmuring ſtrays, / More ſoft then that, or cooing dove, / Is Anna, when ſhe ſays I love. [[1765?], Oddibus, Funnybus [pseudonym], “Song XCVI. Tune, I‘m come to buy a heart of thee.”, in A Collection of Original Comic Songs and Others, […], London: […], →OCLC, page 84:]
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The vessel became stationary, and the fresh breezey hissing of the water in her wake and the tremulous motion everywhere suddenly ceased. [1854, Henry [Garrett] Newland, “The Shipwash Sand”, in Forest Scenes in Norway and Sweden, Being Extracts from the Journal of a Fisherman, London; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] Routledge & Co. […], →OCLC, page 28:]
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And we’ll have another frozen bloody pizza in frozen bloody silence. (Quieter.) I can’t bear her petty thoughtless cruelties. Her bright and breezey tortures. Her blitheness. Her blindness. I will protect you from her. [1988, Lucy Gannon, “Scene Eighteen”, in Keeping Tom Nice, London: Warner Chappell Plays, published 1990, →ISBN, page 48:]
Adjectives inflected like breezey
snipey,
scaley,
smiley,
slicey,
slimey,
slatey,
shitey,
blowsey,
plaguey,
breezey,
schemey,
smudgey,
smidgey,
douchey,
greasey,
cabbagey,
chocolatey,
cliquey,
squiggley,
dog-whistley, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology