sparkly

comparative sparklier · superlative sparkliest

1. Giving off sparks, or small flashes of light; glittery

   How sparkly the weeds are between the stones, and the moss on the roof—oh, and the flowers!

   1905 January – 1906 January, E[dith] Nesbit, “Peter’s Coal Mine”, in The Railway Children, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published 1906 (indicated as 1905), →OCLC, page 29

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   They sailed smilingly into the room, the woman ahead, rustling in a long, sparkly, black dress.

   1906, Geraldine Bonner, The Castlecourt Diamond Case, Part 2

2. Of a liquid: bubbly, effervescent.

   Then we drifted, with a head over ayther side, peerin' down through the sparkly water. For the world like the days I spint with the pearlers, watchin' the coral banks a-growin' the same as so many gardens under the sea.

   1900 April 7, Jack London, “(please specify the page number(s))”, in The Son of the Wolf: Tales of the Far North, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC

   Synonyms: bubblesome, fizzy, sparkling, abubble, bubblesome, bubbly, ebullient, effervescent

3. Of a person: high-spirited and lively.

   a sparkly personality