mellowy

English

Etymology

From Middle English melowy, equivalent to mellow +‎ -y.

Adjective

mellowy (comparative more mellowy, superlative most mellowy)

soft; unctuous
- 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 10 p. 159:
  Thy plumpe and swelling wombe, whose mellowy gleabe doth beare
  The yellow ripened sheafe, that bendeth with the eare.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “mellowy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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