lawny

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UK/ˈlɔːni/

adjective

Made of lawn or fine linen.

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Meanings

adjectivelawny (not comparable)
  1. not comparableMade of lawn or fine linen.

    'Tis like a Lawnie-Firmament as yet / Quite diſpoſſeſt of either fray, or fret.

    1648, Robert Herrick, “To the Fever, Not to Trouble Julia”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC, page 91
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    When a plum'd fanne may shade thy chalked face, / And lawny strips thy naked bosome grace.

    1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC
  2. not comparableHaving or resembling a grass lawn.

    Musing through the lawny park.

    1777, Thomas Warton, The First of April

Origin

From lawn + -y.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with lawny

tawnyscrawnypornyawnyleprechaunymulligatawnyvorny
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Anagrams

Alwynwanly
Cite this entry
APA

lawny. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lawny

MLA

“lawny.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lawny. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lawny,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lawny.

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