crocussy
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]crocussy (comparative more crocussy, superlative most crocussy)
- Alternative form of crocusy.
- 2007, Graham Swift, Tomorrow, London: Picador, →ISBN, page 124:
- Undoubtedly the best moment of that wretched start to the year was when we returned to Carshalton (a sunny, crocussy, even spring-like Carshalton, I’m glad to say) to collect Otis.
- 2008, Ronald Wallace, “Sex Talk”, in For a Limited Time Only (Pitt Poetry Series), Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, →ISBN, page 80:
- O how Spring’s archaic language sounds its horn. O how crocussy clichés and daffodils pop up, their bright aroma—golden, isn’t it?—rising stiff and prurient in the earth’s moist slickness, old men thinking about their births, or bacon and eggs, for who can follow the Byzantine pathways of their brains?