seepy
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -iːpi
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
seepy (comparative seepier, superlative seepiest)
- That seeps.
- 2020, Bethany Hicok, Elizabeth Bishop and the Literary Archive, page 121:
- In a way this reminds me a bit of the exactness of Bishop's watercolors—using the seepiest of mediums to make a kind of preternatural accuracy.
- (of land) boggy; marshy; with poor drainage.
References
- “seepy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.