Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
a) 2-syllable adjectives in -Y
bleaky | Bleak. |
blooey | (Sl.) out of order. |
busky | (Shakesp.) bushy. |
cheerly | Gay; cheerful. |
deawy | (Spenser) dewy. |
deely | As in deely boppers, a hairband with two bobbing antennae-like projections. |
dormy | In golf, as many strokes ahead as there are holes to play. |
dreadly | Dreadful. |
fleury | Having fleur-de-lis. |
flooey | Awry. |
frory | Frozen. |
goary | (Milton) gory. |
griesy | (Spenser) grisly. |
grisy | (Spenser) grey. |
gryesy | (Spenser) grey. |
guly | (Obs.) of colour gules (heraldic red). |
hugy | (Arch.) huge, vast. |
laithly | (Scots)loathsome. |
leany | (Spenser) lean. |
lionly | Like a lion; fierce. |
loathy | (Arch.) loathsome. |
mifty | (Obs.) quick to take offence. |
nitry | Containing nitre. |
nowy | Having a convex curvature near the middle. |
only | ONLIEST but no ONLIER*. |
paty | Having expanded crossed arms. |
plurry | (Coll.) bloody. |
primy | (Shakesp.) in one's prime, blooming. |
prismy | Pertaining to a PRISM. |
purfly | (Carlyle) short-winded. |
saughy | Full of saughs, willows. |
sleepry | (Scots) sleepy. |
sonly | Pertaining to a SON. |
spoffy | (Arch.) officious. |
tenny | Orange-brown. |
thristy | (Spenser) thirsty. |
urdy | Pointed, with a pattern of points. |
viewly | (Dial.) pleasing to look at. |
yawey | Pertaining to YAWS, the disease. |
yesty | (Obs.) yeasty. |
b) Other non-comparing adjectives that may mislead
averse | Opposed, reluctant. |
azury | Azure. |
blankety | Damned. |
blooie | (Sl.) out of order. |
brickle | Brittle. |
conceity | Full of conceit. |
cousinly | Like or becoming a cousin. |
crouse | (Scots) lively, pert, arrogant. |
dawney | (Irish) dull or slow. |
deawie | (Spenser) dewy. |
dormie | IN golf, as many strokes ahead as there are holes to play. |
dowf | (Scots) dull, heavy, spiritless. |
erect | upright. There is a noun ERECTER (also ERECTOR): one who erects. But no ERECTEST*. |
fap | Intoxicated, fuddled. |
finite | Limited. |
flooie | Awry. |
frack | (Scots) prompt, eager. |
fusc | Brown, dingy. |
grushie | (Scots) healthy, thriving. |
histie | (Scots) dry, barren. |
hirstie | (Scots) dry, barren. |
pavid | Afraid. |
queint | (Obs.) quaint. |
rogue | Mischievous; diverging from accepted norms. |
seld | Rare; uncommon; unusual. Cf. SELDSEEN, SELDSHOWN. |
sleepery | (Scots) sleepy. |
smittle | (Scots) infectious. |
sprack | Quick; lively; alert. |
sprag | Quick; lively; alert. Also a verb, so SPRAGS, SPRAGGED, SPRAGGING. |
sprush | Spruce, neat. Also a verb, so SPRUSHES, SPRUSHING, SPRUSHED. |
squiff | (Coll.) tipsy, drunk. No comp, but SQUIFFER is valid as a noun. |
swack | (Scots) pliant, nimble. |
swart | Black. |
teachie | (Obs.) tetchy. |
void | Empty. No VOIDEST: there is VOIDER, but it is a noun. |
yald | (Scots) active, nimble. |
yauld | (Scots) active, nimble. |