thymey
adjEtymology From thyme + -y.
1
Resembling or characteristic of the herb thyme; having the aroma or flavour of thyme.
- All of us have read, no doubt, of the honey of Mount Hybla, of which the thymey flavour has been so much extolled by the ancient poets […]1886 January 1, “Bee-Keeping in New Zealand”, in The Bee-Keepers' Record, volume IV, London: Houlston & Sons, page 10:
2
Covered with or abounding in thyme.
- What time the mighty moon was gathering light Love paced the thymy plots of Paradise, And all about him roll'd his lustrous eyes;1830, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Love and Death:
- Once in the wind of morning I ranged the thymy wold; The world-wide air was azure And all the brooks ran gold.1896, Alfred Edward Housman, “The Merry Guide”, in A Shropshire Lad:
1 more example
- The happy land of Narnia—Narnia of the heathery mountains and the thymy downs […]1954, C. S. Lewis, chapter 1, in The Horse and His Boy, Collins, published 1998:
- Synonyms
- thymelike