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pondy

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Etymology

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From pond +‎ -y.

Adjective

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pondy (comparative more pondy, superlative most pondy)

  1. Resembling a pond; pondlike
    • 1851, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers[1]:
      Our tea was made of a brown pondy liquid, which looked like water in a tanner's vat.
    • 1911, Dallas Lore Sharp, Roof and Meadow[2]:
      And faint across the creek, the road, and the fields lay the pondy smell of spatter-docks.
    • 2011, Gnomeo and Juliet:
      Juliet, is there something wrong with the pond?
      No, it's fine, I mean, it's just as pondy as ever.