grapey
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English grapy, equivalent to grape + -y.
Adjective
[edit]grapey (comparative grapier, superlative grapiest)
- Resembling grapes.
- Synonym: grapelike
- It was round and purple and had sort of a grapey appearance.
- 1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses:
- The God we now behold with open'd eyes;
A herd of spotted panthers round him lies
In glaring forms; the grapy clusters spread
On his fair brows, and dangle on his head.
- Of, or pertaining to, grapes.
- full of grapey goodness