plovery

English

Etymology

From plover +‎ -y.

Adjective

plovery (comparative more plovery, superlative most plovery)

1. Full of plovers.
   • 1895, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Andrew Lang”, in A child's garden of verses, page 117:

     The plovery Forest and the seas / That break about the Hebrides

   • 2003, Nina FitzPatrick, Daimons, page 80:

     And the church itself, instead of turning its back to the sea, had embraced the congregation of the waves and the plovery shore.

2. Resembling or characteristic of a plover.
   • 1939, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake:

     […] I would be engaging you with my plovery soft accents […]