crocussy

comparative more crocussy · superlative most crocussy

1. alternativeAlternative form of crocusy.

   Undoubtedly the best moment of that wretched start to the year was when we returned to Carshalton (a sunny, crocussy, even spring-like Carshalton, I’m glad to say) to collect Otis.

   2007, Graham Swift, Tomorrow, London: Picador, →ISBN, page 124

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   On the toast see the savory snipe dream / Like an epicure lost in a tripe-dream, / While the spring poet’s soul / Soars to song’s golden goal / In a shad-roesy, crocussy pipe-dream.

   1902 May 10, Judge, volume 42, number 1073, New York, N.Y.

   O how Spring’s archaic language sounds its horn. O how crocussy clichés and daffodils pop up, their bright aroma—golden, isn’t it?—rising stiff and prurient in the earth’s moist slickness, old men thinking about their births, or bacon and eggs, for who can follow the Byzantine pathways of their brains?

   2008, Ronald Wallace, “Sex Talk”, in For a Limited Time Only (Pitt Poetry Series), Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, →ISBN, page 80