flashy
adj/ˈflæʃi/
Etymology From flash + -y.
1
Showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing.
- The dancers wore flashy costumes featuring shiny sequins in many vibrant colors.
2
Of a river Marked by frequent variations in water amount (compare flash flood).
- Flow criteria were used for classification […] The criteria chosen were […] (4) the rate of change of flow with time (logged serial correlation coefficients are 0.2 in flashy rivers, but up to 0.98 in stable ones); and (5) the velocity associated with average daily flows (this varies from 1.03 m/s in flashy rivers to 0.08 m/s in lowland ones).2014 May 8, S. M. Haslam, River Plants of Western Europe, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 24:
- a flashy light
- […] the accustomed warmth pierced his marrow, and ran thrilling through his shaken bones; just as when at times, with forked thunder burst, a chinky stream of fire in flashy lightning shoots athwart the skies.1826, Benjamin Apthorp Gould, The Works of Vergil: Translated into English Prose:
4
Archaic Drunk; tipsy.
- Indeed, he was 'dithguthted' at his condition; and if upon the occasion just described he had allowed himself to be somewhat 'intoxicated with liquor,' I must aver that I do not recollect another instance in which this worthy little gentleman suffered himself to be similarly overtaken. Now and then a little 'flashy' he might be, but nothing more serious—and rely upon it, this was no common virtue in those days.1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
- Derived terms
- flashily, flashiness, glimflashy, unflashy