sprayey
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]sprayey (comparative sprayier, superlative sprayiest)
- 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.
- 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.