mellowy

English

Etymology

From Middle English melowy, equivalent to mellow +‎ -y.

Adjective

mellowy (comparative more mellowy, superlative most mellowy)

Soft; unctuous; loamy.
- 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 10 p. 159:
  Thy plumpe and swelling wombe, whose mellowy gleabe doth beare
  The yellow ripened sheafe, that bendeth with the eare.
- 1812, Great Britain. Board of Agriculture, Agricultural Surveys: Banff, page 68:
  The first a dry mellowy soil, made up of a due mixture of clay and sand, very deep, and passes under the name of daichy haughs.
Mild; subdued; gentle; not at all harsh or sharp.
mellowy light
- 1856 February 23, “Poetical Nuisances”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, page 328:
  Like a stream-wrestling lily of mellowy gold, What sweet parted lips, and what glozy blue eyes, Purple-steeped as the heartsease held up to the light!
- 1887, R. M. Tate ·, Michael Malcolm, Or, Annals of a Sea-port Town, page 186:
  A little distance off was a grey and mossy cottage, the sight of which made Michael's heart leap, and called to his memory many reflections, pleasing, but mellowy sad.
- 1968 August 5, “Philippine Trade Standared Specifications for Fish Sauce”, in Official Gazette, volume 64, number 32, page 8108:
  The fish sauce shall have a mellowy taste and should not be too salty.
- 1829, T.C.O., “To S****”, in Ladies' Magazine and Literary Gazette, volume 2, page 35:
  The silver moon—the silver moon—how mellowy it gleams!
- 1841, Jules Fournet, Clinical Researches on Auscultation of the Respiratory Organs and on the First Stage of Phthisis Pulmonalis, page 58:
  I have investigated with great care the alterations of the soft, free, mellowy character of the normal respiratory murmurs, in all the cases of auscultation I have met for some years, and I have learned to give to this class of signs more weight than is usually assigned to them.
- 1928, Country Life - Volume 55, page 127:
  Get the fun of "playing" outdoors in the mellowy energising winter sunshine.
Tender; emotional.
- 2004, Charles Fleming, The Ivory Coast:
  Anita saw that look on him, that mellowy, kind of stupid look that some men get when they've been drinking.
- 2016, Marilyn Pappano, A Summer to Remember:
  Not that he got all soft and mellowy around them, but he'd never met one he didn't like.
(of plants) Mature and soft; ripe.
- 1769, John Ogilvie, Providence. Solitude. Paradise. An aeolian ode, page 29:
  Round its sides, A range of Gardens, gay as those which crown'd Thy work Semiramis, luxuriant waved With Autumn's mellowy growth;
- 1839, Margaret Richardson, The Buds of Hope: A Collection of Miscellaneous Poems, page 48:
  Autumn's rich mellowy fruit bedecks the trees, Laid low, beneath a winter's stormy skies.
- 1886 January 9, W. Ingram, “Fruit Garden: Amateur Pear Growers”, in The Garden, volume 29, page 22:
  The first named never becomes a mellowy Pear, even grown on a south wall here ;