yearny
adjEtymology From yearn + -y.
1
Indicating strong desire, passion, or longing; eager.
- It was beautiful and made me feel yearny for home.2003, Jennifer Donnelly, A Northern Light:
- I was slooshying more like malenky romantic songs, what they call Lieder, just a goloss and a piano, very quiet and like yearny, different from when it had been all bolshy orchestras and me lying on the bed between […]1962, Anthony Burgess, edited by Mark Rawlison, A Clockwork Orange, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, published 2011, →ISBN, page 118:
2
Overly desirous; sentimental.
- "Long Ago and Far Away," "Sentimental Journey": "Never thought my heart could be so yearny, Why did I decide to roam? Gotta take that sentimental journey, Sentimental journey home."2009, Stefan Kanfer, Somebody: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando:
- Apart from the pathetic yearny crush bit, obviously.2011, Jill Mansell, To The Moon and Back: