floody

comparative floodier · comparative more floody · superlative floodiest · superlative most floody

1. Pertaining to or characteristic of a flood or flooding

   We strolled along floody beaches in gloaming twilights; […]

   1987, Frank Luger, Herzenblut, page 253

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   The adjoining figure represents an under-shot wheel in floody water, or when the river is high, and the water up to its shaft.

   1825, Mechanics' Magazine and Journal of Science, Arts, and Manufactures

   The water twirled and tossed him while the rain came down and the Hundred Acre Wood got floodier and floodier. But the water couldn't come up to Christopher Robin's house on high ground. And that's where everyone was gathering.

   1989, Darlene Geis, Walt Disney's Winnie the Pooh Storybook, page 53

   The floody abyss was extremely deep— How did he fill it in?

   2012, Victor H. Mair, The Shorter Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature