sleety
adj/ˈsliːti/
Etymology From sleet + -y.
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Covered in sleet; full of sleet.
- sleety weather
- Such a man, to quit the tranquillity and independence of his own fireside, and on the evening of a cold sleety April day rush out again into the world!1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter 17, in Emma: […], volume II, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC:
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- The little doctor threw off his sleety cloak and hat in the lobby, and stood before the officer fresh and puffing, and a little flustered and dazzled after his romp with the wind.1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Church-yard. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC:
- Derived terms
- sleetily, sleetiness