Adjective: givey
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more givey |
| Superlative | most givey |
Sample Sentences
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I was especially pleased to hear that I once gave Pauline some of my bookplates with the scroll where you write your name; I wasn't very givey in those days. [1967, John L'Heureux, Picnic in Babylon: A Jesuit Priest's Journal, 1963-1967, page 62:]
Adjectives inflected like givey
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From give + -y.