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sprayey

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English

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Etymology

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From spray +‎ -ey.

Adjective

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sprayey (comparative sprayier, superlative sprayiest)

  1. Full of spray.
    • 1865, The Dublin University Magazine:
      [] the open sea, whose blue bounding waters, lashed by the innumerable oars, spread in a sprayey path for a mile behind them.
  2. Branching.
    • 1832, Magazine of Natural History:
      Their unsuspicious temper makes them not over careful in concealing their nest, it being built on a sprayey part of a horizontal branch of a tree, about 8 ft. or 10 ft. from the ground.