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malmy

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Etymology

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From malm +‎ -y.

Adjective

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malmy (comparative more malmy, superlative most malmy)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of malm.
    • 1809, Arthur Young, View of the Agriculture of Oxfordshire, page 9:
      It becomes what is here called a clay soil; in other counties, a malmy one.
    • 1836, Gilbert White, The Natural History of Selborne, with Its Antiquities, page xii:
      The tough malmy clay at the bottom of the hill comes very nearly down to the right side of the road here; []