thymey

English

Alternative forms

• thymy

Etymology

From thyme +‎ -y.

Adjective

thymey (comparative thymier, superlative thymiest)

1. Resembling or characteristic of the herb thyme; having the aroma or flavour of thyme.
   • 1886 January 1, “Bee-Keeping in New Zealand”, in The Bee-Keepers' Record‎^[1], volume IV, London: Houlston & Sons, page 10:

     All of us have read, no doubt, of the honey of Mount Hybla, of which the thymey flavour has been so much extolled by the ancient poets […]

2. Covered with or abounding in thyme.
   • 1830, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Love and Death‎^[2]:

     What time the mighty moon was gathering light
     Love paced the thymy plots of Paradise,
     And all about him roll'd his lustrous eyes;

   • 1896, Alfred Edward Housman, “The Merry Guide”, in A Shropshire Lad‎^[3]:

     Once in the wind of morning
     I ranged the thymy wold;
     The world-wide air was azure
     And all the brooks ran gold.

   • 1954, C. S. Lewis, chapter 1, in The Horse and His Boy, Collins, published 1998:

     The happy land of Narnia—Narnia of the heathery mountains and the thymy downs […]

Synonyms

• (resembling thyme): thymelike