dewy
adj/ˈdjuː.i/ · /ˈd͡ʒuː.i/
Etymology From Middle English dewy, deuhy, from Old English dēawiġ, from Proto-West Germanic *dauwag, *dauwīg, equivalent to dew + -y.
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Covered by dew.
- His mildly vivid dewy beam Of beryl to diffuse: the gleam With elf-light tiniest figures lit Of shapely moon-fair elves who sit Each on a gemmy blade's curled tip In circle.1863, Roden Noel, Behind the Veil: And Other Poems, London: Macmillan and Co., page 149:
- The dewy grass was too slick for football.
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Having the quality of bearing droplets of water.
- In the dewy fog, it was cold and damp.
- At midnight, in the month of June, / I stand beneath the mystic moon. / An opiate vapor, dewy, dim, / Exhales from out her golden rim1831, Edgar Allan Poe, The Sleeper:
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Resembling or characteristic of dew.
4
Fresh and innocent.
- 1814, 16 March, Percy Bysshe Shelley letter to Hogg, Thy Gentle Face Thy dewy looks sink in my breast Thy gentle words stir poison there;
- It was unusually early for him; his whole person exhaled the charm of almost dewy freshness; […]1906 January–October, Joseph Conrad, chapter II, in The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Collection of British Authors; 3995), copyright edition, London: Bernhard Tauchnitz, published 1907, →OCLC, page 13:
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- Simplicity in life, simplicity in art, and a dewy freshness over all.2009, Bernfried Nugel, Jerome Meckier, Aldous Huxley Annual, →ISBN, page 23: