beachy

comparative beachier · superlative beachiest

1. Pertaining to the material making up the edge of a seashore, as with pebbles, gravel, and sand.

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   O God that one might reade the booke of fate, / And ſee the reuolution of the times, / Make mountaines leuell, and the continent / Weary of ſolide firmeneſſe melt it ſelfe / Into the ſea, and other times to ſee, / The beachie girdle of the ocean, / Too wide for Neptunes hips, how chances mockes, / And changes fill the cup of alteration, / With diuers liquors!

   c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]

2. Pertaining to a beach or something beach-like.

   ‘Year-round sunshine practically guaranteed’: Le Mourillon is Toulon’s cool, beachy quarter [title]

   2026 June 22, Rachel Hosie, “‘Year-round sunshine practically guaranteed’: Le Mourillon is Toulon’s cool, beachy quarter”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

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   Exporters, here's a "beachy" place to get your feet wet. It's close by, and one of the main tourist destinations in the Caribbean.

   2004, USDA site, archived from the original on 24 Sep 2006

plural Beachys

1. A surname.