beachy
adj/ˈbiːt͡ʃi/
Etymology From beach + -y.
1
Pertaining to the material making up the edge of a seashore, as with pebbles, gravel, and sand.
- O God that one might reade the booke of fate, / And ſee the reuolution of the times, / Make mountaines leuell, and the continent / Weary of ſolide firmeneſſe melt it ſelfe / Into the ſea, and other times to ſee, / The beachie girdle of the ocean, / Too wide for Neptunes hips, how chances mockes, / And changes fill the cup of alteration, / With diuers liquors!c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
2
Pertaining to a beach or something beach-like.
- Exporters, here's a "beachy" place to get your feet wet. It's close by, and one of the main tourist destinations in the Caribbean.2004, USDA site, archived from the original on 24 Sep 2006:
- ‘Year-round sunshine practically guaranteed’: Le Mourillon is Toulon’s cool, beachy quarter [title]2026 June 22, Rachel Hosie, “‘Year-round sunshine practically guaranteed’: Le Mourillon is Toulon’s cool, beachy quarter”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
- Derived terms
- beachiness, Beachy Head, unbeachy