groundy

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English groundi, equivalent to ground +‎ -y.

Adjective

groundy (comparative groundier or more groundy, superlative groundiest or most groundy)

1. (rare) Of or relating to the ground; earthly
   • 1896, Paschal Beverly Randolph, Eulis!:

     They never dreamed of that, yet it is as certainly true as truth itself! They cannot see these splendid things, because their visual range is groundy, while these lofty truths are at their base anchored in the substance of the human soul, and held there by a cable, Love, whose other end girdles the Infinite God!

   • 2004, Jeremy Reed, Duck and Sally Inside:

     Nasturtiums beat out loudest reds in groundier earthings, a clash of hot orange contestants.

   • 2014, Atina Diffley, Turn Here Sweet Corn:

     On one end of the garden the kids have built a farm with hills and ditches and stone fences and grass clippings for hay. They sure play in that a lot. The only trouble is they get so groundy. The kids brought home lots of wild grapes and elderberries this year. I think that one week all I did besides the usual stuff was make jelly. Those fruits are slow to work with.

Etymology 2

From ground +‎ -y.

Adjective

groundy (comparative groundier or more groundy, superlative groundiest or most groundy)

1. Like or characteristic of grounds; coarse
   • 1884, Felix J. Déliée, The Franco-American Cookery Book:

     Procure a green-backed, fresh-water pike of about five pounds (the darker ones are generally soft and have a groundy taste) ; […] )

   • 1891, Walter J. Clutterbuck, About Ceylon and Borneo:

     So having given us some of the groundiest coffee it has ever been my fortune to encounter, and some cigarettes like his own, which were capital smoking, he sat and looked at us till we did not think that we were getting any ' forarder.'

   • 1914, Richard Dehan, The Cost of Wings:

     There wasn't much difference, except that the coffee wasn't so groundy.

   • 1921, Scribner's Magazine, volume 70:

     So, from an examination of the taste and smell of coffees, the taster knows if a coffee is “soft” or “hard” or “Rioy”; if it is sound or fermented (from improper curing); if it is groundy or mouldy or “hidey.” Coffee is often bought “on description.”

   • 1921 Jan, Boys' Life, volume 11, number 1:

     It is this fat that gives his flesh a groundy taste. When the meat is freed of fat, it is both tender and delicious. It tastes not unlike dark meat of turkey.

Anagrams

• yground