coachy

comparative coachier · superlative coachiest

1. datedOf a horse: more suited to drawing a coach than to racing.

   As a yearling, when Mr. Rowlands bid 900 guineas for Viscount, we thought him rather coachy; but he has framed with age into a nice, useful colt, and looks stones lighter than he did at the Derby.

   1868, The New Sporting Magazine, volume 56, page 236

2. informalOf or related to coaches (trainers or instructors).

   He looked all soccer coachy in a bright yellow Windbreaker and blue baseball cap. […]

   2009, Jody Elizabeth Gehrman, Triple Shot Bettys in Love, Penguin, →ISBN, page 133

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   (Not real coachy stuff to yell), but all I knew to yell. All of a sudden the other team got the puck away from my players and my friend's son, who was on his team, hit the puck with all his might Only In Debbie's World.

   2015 May 25, Deborah Hagen, Only In Debbie's World, Lulu.com, →ISBN

plural coachies

1. alternativedatedslangAlternative form of coachee (“a coachman”).

   Tip the coachy a crown.

2. diminutiveinformalA coach (trainer or instructor).