seepy

English

Etymology

From seep +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːpi

Adjective

seepy (comparative seepier, superlative seepiest)

1. That seeps.
   • 2020, Bethany Hicok, Elizabeth Bishop and the Literary Archive, page 121:

     In a way this reminds me a bit of the exactness of Bishop's watercolors—using the seepiest of mediums to make a kind of preternatural accuracy.

2. (of land) boggy; marshy; with poor drainage.

References

• “seepy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Espey, yeeps