sparkly
adjEtymology From sparkle + -y.
1
Giving off sparks, or small flashes of light; glittery
- How sparkly the weeds are between the stones, and the moss on the roof—oh, and the flowers!1905 January – 1906 January, E[dith] Nesbit, “Peter’s Coal Mine”, in The Railway Children, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published 1906 (indicated as 1905), →OCLC, page 29:
- They sailed smilingly into the room, the woman ahead, rustling in a long, sparkly, black dress.1906, Geraldine Bonner, The Castlecourt Diamond Case, Part 2:
2
Of a liquid: bubbly, effervescent.
- Then we drifted, with a head over ayther side, peerin' down through the sparkly water. For the world like the days I spint with the pearlers, watchin' the coral banks a-growin' the same as so many gardens under the sea.1900 April 7, Jack London, “(please specify the page number(s))”, in The Son of the Wolf: Tales of the Far North, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:
3
Of a person: high-spirited and lively.
- a sparkly personality
- Derived terms
- sparklies, sparkliness