thymey

comparative thymier · superlative thymiest · alternative thymy

1. Resembling or characteristic of the herb thyme; having the aroma or flavour of thyme.

   All of us have read, no doubt, of the honey of Mount Hybla, of which the thymey flavour has been so much extolled by the ancient poets […]

   1886 January 1, “Bee-Keeping in New Zealand”, in The Bee-Keepers' Record, volume IV, London: Houlston & Sons, page 10

2. Covered with or abounding in thyme.

   The happy land of Narnia—Narnia of the heathery mountains and the thymy downs […]

   1954, C. S. Lewis, chapter 1, in The Horse and His Boy, Collins, published 1998

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   What time the mighty moon was gathering light Love paced the thymy plots of Paradise, And all about him roll'd his lustrous eyes;

   1830, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Love and Death

   Once in the wind of morning I ranged the thymy wold; The world-wide air was azure And all the brooks ran gold.

   1896, Alfred Edward Housman, “The Merry Guide”, in A Shropshire Lad