fieldy

English

Etymology

From Middle English feeldy, feeldi, feldi, equivalent to field +‎ -y.

Adjective

fieldy (comparative more fieldy, superlative most fieldy)

1. (rare) Open, like a field; widespread.
   • 2013, Candy Harper, Have a Little Faith:

     There was a fieldy bit with some trees and a stream behind the hall and everybody was watching the boys climb trees and then jump out of them. Which was more fun than it sounds. You can get quite a good stare at a boy while he's jumping [...]

   • 2014, Peter Unger, Empty Ideas: A Critique of Analytic Philosophy - Page 91:

     With a discussion proceeding via a fieldy vision, the same main points emerge. For some happy specificity, let's suppose that all electrons are among the basic physical individuals, in the actual world, during its present Eon.

   • 2015, Nina Stibbe, Man at the Helm: A Novel:

     Though the new house was nice and the fieldy vistas enthralling, we soon began to notice that hardly anyone in the village liked us. It was plain to see. People looked at us but no one smiled or stroked Debbie, our nice-looking Labrador.

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See also

• fieldish

References

• “fieldy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.