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▪ I. ˈgoldy, n. dial.
Also go(o)ldie, gouldie.
[f. gold1 + -y4.]
a. The goldfinch.
b. The yellow-hammer.
1802G. Montagu Ornith. Dict. (1833) 214 Goldfinch..Gold-Spink..Gooldie. 1864Atkinson Prov. Names Birds, Goldie, Golder, Yellow Hammer. 1877Holderness Gloss., Goldey, a goldfinch, a yellow-hammer. 1893Northumbld. Gloss., Gooldy..The goldfinch.
▪ II. goldy, a.|ˈgəʊldɪ|
Also gowdy.
[f. gold1 + -y1.]
a. Golden. Also, gold-like; resembling gold in colour or sheen.
c1450MS. Cantab. Ff. i. 6, lf. 12 (Halliw.) Goldy gravel in the stremys rich. 1593[see goldilocks 1]. 1594Zepheria xxxiii. F j, There, in her goldie leaues my loue is writ. a1861T. Winthrop John Brent (1883) iii. 27 ‘I don't think that quartz looks quite so goldy as it did at a distance’ said he. 1893Northumbld. Gloss., Goldy, golden. 1904R. Bridges Demeter 81 Now maids playfully dance o'er enamel'd meadows, And with goldy blossom deck forehead and bosom. 1920Galsworthy Awakening 35 There were silver threads in her dark goldy hair. 1969‘J. Morris’ Fever Grass v. 57 The room was illuminated with a soft, goldy-bronze glow.
b. Comb., as goldy-brown, goldy-locked (see also goldilocks); also goldy-stone (see quot. 1861).
1605B. Jonson Volpone i. i, It [the soul]..made quick transmigration To goldy-lock't Euphorbvs. 1861C. W. King Ant. Gems i. 63 The true Aventurine, or Goldie-stone, is a brownish semi-transparent quartz, full of specks of yellow mica. 1874Mrs. Whitney We Girls viii. 161 That piece of goldy-brown damask. |