sluicy

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/ˈsluːsi/

adjective

Falling copiously or in streams, as if from a sluice.

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Meanings

adjectivesluicy (comparative more sluicy, superlative most sluicy)

comparative more sluicy · superlative most sluicy

  1. Falling copiously or in streams, as if from a sluice.

    And oft whole sheets descend of sluicy rain.

    1697, Virgil, “The First Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC

Origin

From sluice + -y.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with sluicy

lucyjuicyDebussyLuciLucea
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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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