troughy
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]troughy (comparative more troughy, superlative most troughy)
- Having troughs (long narrow depressions between waves).
- 1850, W. H. Sadler, Miscellaneous Poems, Historical and Descriptive, page 15:
- Wall'd around with driving foam, / Reels she in the troughy brine; […]
- 1862, William Martin, Peter Parley's Annual, page 141:
- […] they tumbled and rolled over them, much after the manner of two ships in a rough, bobbing, and troughy sea, till at last one came down sprawling with the other above him.