summery

• enPR: sŭmʹə-rē, IPA^(key): /ˈsʌməɹi/

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• Homophone: summary

From Middle English somery; equivalent to summer +‎ -y. Compare Swedish somrig (“summery”).

summery (comparative summerier, superlative summeriest)

1. Relating to the summer.

   She wore a light summery dress.

2. Of weather, typical of summer.

• (relating to the summer): aestival, estival, summer (as a modifier)
• (of weather, typical of summer): summerish, summerlike, summerly

• summeriness

summery

1. Misspelling of summary.
   • 1970, Morris Kominsky, chapter VII, in The Hoaxers: Plain Liars, Fancy Liars, and Damned Liars‎, volume I, Boston: Branden Press, Inc., 8283-1288-5, page 451:

     We are reasonably certain that every reader will understand the danger and downright immorality of using quotation marks in a careless or flippant manner, that only a person’s actual words may be placed in quotation marks, and that a summery or paraphrase must be so labeled or identified.

   • 2024 February 12, Alaina Demopoulos, “Romcom ending: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s big night at the Super Bowl”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     With Swift, Spice, Lively and Avignone hugging each other, it was a picture-perfect visual summery of Swift’s brand: manufactured empowerment, a celebration of pop feminist girl power.

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