sunshiny
adj/ˈsʌnˌʃaɪ.ni/
Etymology From sunshine + -y. By surface analysis, sun + shine + y.
1
Sunny; having, characterised by, full of, or illuminated by sunshine.
- There are men that roll through life, like a fire-new red ball going across Mr. Lord's cricket-ground on a sunshiny day […]1858, Charles Reade, Jack of all Trades:
- A sunshiny shower / Won't last half an hour.1998, Jonathan Langley, Collins Bedtime Treasury of Nursery Rhymes and Tales, page 55:
2
Figuratively Beautiful and bright, as if illuminated by sunshine; radiant; beaming; glowing; resplendent; shining.
- The blazing brightneſſe of her beauties beame, / And glorious light of her ſunſhyny face / To tell, vvere as to ſtriue against the ſtreame.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- He to her lept vvith deadly dreadfull looke, / And her ſunſhynie helmet ſoon vnlaced, / Thinking at once both head and helmet to haue raced.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 11, page 242:
3
Figuratively Cheerful; happy; pleasant.
- a sunshiny disposition
- Flowers can make any room sunshiny.
1 more example
- He had always been a sunshiny sort of boy, but that sun was gone now, buried behind heavy banks of cloud which were still building.1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
- Derived terms
- sunshininess