floweryadj.

Brit.

/ˈflaʊəri/, U.S.

/ˈflaʊ(ə)ri/

Etymology: < flower n. + -y suffix¹.

a. Abounding in or covered with flowers; producing flowers.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > [adjective] > having flowers or blossom

blossomedc1374

blossomyc1374

flowereda1375

floweryc1374

flourishingc1400

blossoming1430

bloomed1508

blooming1587

florulent1592

bloomy?1606

floweringa1616

florid1656

floriferous1656

flosculous1656

florent1719

posied1731

emblossomed1766

phaenogamous1805

phaenogamic1808

phanerogamous1816

florescent1821

phaenogamian1828

phanerogamic1830

ablow1838

flowerful1848

floreal1852

floreted1856

blossom-laden1867

c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. iv. metr. vi. 111 (Cambr.) The floury ȝer [L. florifer annus].

c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 57 I felle vpon þat floury flaȝt.

c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme xcii. 20 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 139 The wicked grow Like fraile, though flowry grasse.

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iv. i. 1 Come sit thee downe vpon this flowry bed.

1645 J. Milton Song: On May Morning in Poems 26 The Flowry May, who from her green lap throws The yellow Cowslip.

a1751 P. Doddridge Hymns (1755) 38 The flow'ry Spring at thy Command Embalms the Air.

1781 W. Cowper Retirem. 179 The fruits that hang on pleasure's flowery stem.

1807 J. Barlow Columbiad i. 25 No more thy flowery vales I travel o'er.

b. In plant-names. † flowery cole n. Obsolete = cauliflower n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > cabbage or kale > cauliflower

flowery cole1578

cauliflower1597

sulphur1842

Romanesco1982

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. vi. 554 The thirde kinde is called..in English, Flowrie Cole, or Cypres Colewurtes.

1853 G. Johnston Terra Lindisfarnensis I. 171 Chenopodium bonus Henricus, Flowery-Docken.

c. Flowery Empire, Flowery Kingdom, Flowery Land, or Flowery Nation [translating Chinese hwa kwo] : China. Flowery Land also = Florida.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Far East > [noun] > China

Middle Kingdom1662

Middle Empire1698

Cathay1744

the Celestial Empire1824

Flowery Land1847

1847 R. Fortune Three Years' Wanderings China i. 2 Was this..the ‘flowery land’,..of which I had heard so much in England?

1859 M. Reid Oceola i The Flowery Land.

1862 Once a Week 26 July 138/1 Celestials of the ‘flowery’ empire.

1867 F. S. Cozzens Sayings i. 4 Silk, sir, came from the Flowery Nation.

1870 Macmillan's Mag. XXIII. 172/1 Nor has Christianity..ever been able to obtain a solid footing in the Flowery Land [sc. China].

1901 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 30 Oct. 8/4 Two of the big Chinese companies have had men at work at Ross Bay cemetery..exhuming the bodies of their dead countrymen for shipment home to China where all loyal citizens of the Flowery Kingdom wish to have their last resting place.

d. flowery dell n. rhyming slang for a prison cell. Also elliptical.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > cell

houseOE

cabinc1522

hole1535

lodging1612

hold1717

cell1728

lock-up room1775

glory-hole1825

box1834

drum1846

sweat-box1870

booby-hutch1889

Peter1890

booby1899

boob1908

flowery dell1925

slot1947

1859 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang 40 Flowery, lodging, or house entertainment.]

1925 E. Jervis Twenty-five Years in Six Prisons i. 16 I talked to him of his ‘flowery’ (‘flowery dell’ rhymes with ‘cell’, hence ‘flowery’).

1938 F. D. Sharpe Sharpe of Flying Squad xxiv. 248 I bangs and rattles on the door of the Flowery until the screw comes.

1970 T. Clayton Men in Prison vi. 128 Found aht on the Moor,..that if you have a new play to read weekends in the flowery..you can kid yourself you're having a Saturday night aht.

†2. Flourishing, vigorous. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > [adjective] > of health: good > thriving

well-likingc1350

well-thrivena1400

in seasonc1400

flowerya1420

thriftyc1440

valent1492

wealthya1538

vegetous1610

vegete1639

thriving1647

florid1656

grush1786

a1420 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 877 Now age unorne away puttethe favour, That floury youthe in his cesoun conquerde.

3. Composed of flowers; having the nature of flowers; proceeding from or characteristic of flowers.

ΚΠ

1656 A. Cowley Davideis i. 9 in Poems Neighbring Hermon sweated flowry dew.

1702 C. Beaumont J. Beaumont's Psyche (new ed.) xix. cxl. 295 Herby and floury Gallantry combine Their fairest powers to make her [sc. Earth's] mantle fine.

1712 A. Pope To Young Lady in Misc. Poems 141 As flow'ry Bands in Wantonness are worn.

1727 J. Thomson Summer 23 The flowery Race..their new-flush'd Bloom resign.

1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest I. i. 21 She viewed the flowery luxuriance of the turf.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxi. 266 The first warm snows..enshrine the flowery growths.

4. dialect. (See quot.)

ΚΠ

1691 J. Ray N. Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 26 Flowry, florid, handsom, fair, of a good complexion.

1787–90 in F. Grose Provinc. Gloss.

1838 W. Holloway Gen. Dict. Provincialisms

5. Ornamented with figures of flowers or floral designs.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [adjective] > flowers or fleurs-de-lis

flowered1592

well-flowered1597

liliated1643

flowery1667

thistled1745

lilied1796

rosed1823

fleured1841

fleur-de-lised1843

floriated1845

florulent1859

floriate1894

flower-printed1952

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 881 As a flourie verge to binde The..skirts of that same watrie Cloud.

1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey I. iii. 596 O'er his fair limbs a flow'ry vest he threw.

1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. v. 42 There was a flowery carpet on the floor.

6. Abounding in flowers of speech; full of fine words and showy expressions, florid.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective]

overwrittenOE

flourished1303

orne?a1425

ornatea1450

purpuratec1475

gallant1484

flourishinga1552

gorgeous1561

coloured1571

flowerya1616

ornated1630

flosculent1646

luscious1651

chromatic1652

romantic1653

gaudy1655

florid1656

blooming1685

bloomy1685

dressy1713

colouring1807

colorific1812

emblazoned1813

embroidered1868

purple1941

a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 81 Thinke you I can a resolution fetch From flowrie tendernesse?

1737 A. Pope Epist. of Horace ii. i. 9 And ev'ry flow'ry Courtier writ Romance.

1772 W. Jones Poems 50 Bowers which oft in flow'ry lays..Arabian poets praise.

1784 R. Bage Barham Downs I. 275 Certain flowery gentlemen, who told us, in very pretty language..that [etc.].

1824 S. Smith Wks. (1867) II. 191 The answer..was plain and practical; not flowery.

1879 W. H. Dixon Royal Windsor II. xvi. 176 A man of flowery tongue.

7. Heraldry. = fleury adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of vegetation > [adjective] > having flowers > having lilies

fleuryc1420

flourished1486

fleurettée1562

liliated1643

flowery1681

lilied1796

1681 T. Jordan London's Joy 9 A Double Treasure flowry Counter flowry Mars.

1771 E. Kimber & R. Johnson Wotton's Baronetage of Eng. III. 387 Flowery. This word signifies flowered, or adorned with the French lily.

Compounds

flowery-kirtled adj.

ΚΠ

1637 J. Milton Comus 10 Amidst the flowrie-kirtl'd Naiades.

flowery-mantled adj.

ΚΠ

1621 G. Sandys tr. Ovid First Five Bks. Metamorphosis ii. 43 Shee..makes The flowry-mantled Earth her happy bed.

1810 Associate Minstr. 75 The flowery-mantled Spring.

Derivatives

ˈflowerily adv. in a flowery manner.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > [adverb]

flower-like1604

florally1820

flower-wise1865

flowerily1886

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adverb]

ornatelya1500

gorgeously1532

flourishingly1574

floridly1667

lusciously1779

chromatically1787

flowerily1886

1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 31 Dec. 4/2 The critical judgment so flowerily expressed.

1890 Temple Bar July 440 All the neighbourhood, he remarked, flowerily, was talking..about Miss Arden's tulip-beds.

ˈfloweriness n. the quality of being flowery.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > [noun] > floweriness

floweriness1730

1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum Floweriness, fulness or plenteousness of flowers.

1783 H. Blair Lect. Rhetoric I. xx. 422 That agreeable floweriness of fancy and style.

1821 New Monthly Mag. 2 176 The floweryness and green over-growth of the past season.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	flowery
释义	floweryadj. Brit. /ˈflaʊəri/, U.S. /ˈflaʊ(ə)ri/ Etymology: < flower n. + -y suffix¹. 1. a. Abounding in or covered with flowers; producing flowers. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > [adjective] > having flowers or blossom blossomedc1374 blossomyc1374 flowereda1375 floweryc1374 flourishingc1400 blossoming1430 bloomed1508 blooming1587 florulent1592 bloomy?1606 floweringa1616 florid1656 floriferous1656 flosculous1656 florent1719 posied1731 emblossomed1766 phaenogamous1805 phaenogamic1808 phanerogamous1816 florescent1821 phaenogamian1828 phanerogamic1830 ablow1838 flowerful1848 floreal1852 floreted1856 blossom-laden1867 c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. iv. metr. vi. 111 (Cambr.) The floury ȝer [L. florifer annus]. c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 57 I felle vpon þat floury flaȝt. c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme xcii. 20 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 139 The wicked grow Like fraile, though flowry grasse. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iv. i. 1 Come sit thee downe vpon this flowry bed. View more context for this quotation 1645 J. Milton Song: On May Morning in Poems 26 The Flowry May, who from her green lap throws The yellow Cowslip. a1751 P. Doddridge Hymns (1755) 38 The flow'ry Spring at thy Command Embalms the Air. 1781 W. Cowper Retirem. 179 The fruits that hang on pleasure's flowery stem. 1807 J. Barlow Columbiad i. 25 No more thy flowery vales I travel o'er. b. In plant-names. † flowery cole n. Obsolete = cauliflower n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > cabbage or kale > cauliflower flowery cole1578 cauliflower1597 sulphur1842 Romanesco1982 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. vi. 554 The thirde kinde is called..in English, Flowrie Cole, or Cypres Colewurtes. 1853 G. Johnston Terra Lindisfarnensis I. 171 Chenopodium bonus Henricus, Flowery-Docken. c. Flowery Empire, Flowery Kingdom, Flowery Land, or Flowery Nation [translating Chinese hwa kwo] : China. Flowery Land also = Florida. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Far East > [noun] > China Middle Kingdom1662 Middle Empire1698 Cathay1744 the Celestial Empire1824 Flowery Land1847 1847 R. Fortune Three Years' Wanderings China i. 2 Was this..the ‘flowery land’,..of which I had heard so much in England? 1859 M. Reid Oceola i The Flowery Land. 1862 Once a Week 26 July 138/1 Celestials of the ‘flowery’ empire. 1867 F. S. Cozzens Sayings i. 4 Silk, sir, came from the Flowery Nation. 1870 Macmillan's Mag. XXIII. 172/1 Nor has Christianity..ever been able to obtain a solid footing in the Flowery Land [sc. China]. 1901 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 30 Oct. 8/4 Two of the big Chinese companies have had men at work at Ross Bay cemetery..exhuming the bodies of their dead countrymen for shipment home to China where all loyal citizens of the Flowery Kingdom wish to have their last resting place. d. flowery dell n. rhyming slang for a prison cell. Also elliptical. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > cell houseOE cabinc1522 hole1535 lodging1612 hold1717 cell1728 lock-up room1775 glory-hole1825 box1834 drum1846 sweat-box1870 booby-hutch1889 Peter1890 booby1899 boob1908 flowery dell1925 slot1947 1859 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang 40 Flowery, lodging, or house entertainment.] 1925 E. Jervis Twenty-five Years in Six Prisons i. 16 I talked to him of his ‘flowery’ (‘flowery dell’ rhymes with ‘cell’, hence ‘flowery’). 1938 F. D. Sharpe Sharpe of Flying Squad xxiv. 248 I bangs and rattles on the door of the Flowery until the screw comes. 1970 T. Clayton Men in Prison vi. 128 Found aht on the Moor,..that if you have a new play to read weekends in the flowery..you can kid yourself you're having a Saturday night aht. †2. Flourishing, vigorous. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > [adjective] > of health: good > thriving well-likingc1350 well-thrivena1400 in seasonc1400 flowerya1420 thriftyc1440 valent1492 wealthya1538 vegetous1610 vegete1639 thriving1647 florid1656 grush1786 a1420 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 877 Now age unorne away puttethe favour, That floury youthe in his cesoun conquerde. 3. Composed of flowers; having the nature of flowers; proceeding from or characteristic of flowers. ΚΠ 1656 A. Cowley Davideis i. 9 in Poems Neighbring Hermon sweated flowry dew. 1702 C. Beaumont J. Beaumont's Psyche (new ed.) xix. cxl. 295 Herby and floury Gallantry combine Their fairest powers to make her [sc. Earth's] mantle fine. 1712 A. Pope To Young Lady in Misc. Poems 141 As flow'ry Bands in Wantonness are worn. 1727 J. Thomson Summer 23 The flowery Race..their new-flush'd Bloom resign. 1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest I. i. 21 She viewed the flowery luxuriance of the turf. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxi. 266 The first warm snows..enshrine the flowery growths. 4. dialect. (See quot.) ΚΠ 1691 J. Ray N. Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 26 Flowry, florid, handsom, fair, of a good complexion. 1787–90 in F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. 1838 W. Holloway Gen. Dict. Provincialisms 5. Ornamented with figures of flowers or floral designs. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [adjective] > flowers or fleurs-de-lis flowered1592 well-flowered1597 liliated1643 flowery1667 thistled1745 lilied1796 rosed1823 fleured1841 fleur-de-lised1843 floriated1845 florulent1859 floriate1894 flower-printed1952 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 881 As a flourie verge to binde The..skirts of that same watrie Cloud. View more context for this quotation 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey I. iii. 596 O'er his fair limbs a flow'ry vest he threw. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. v. 42 There was a flowery carpet on the floor. 6. Abounding in flowers of speech; full of fine words and showy expressions, florid. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] overwrittenOE flourished1303 orne?a1425 ornatea1450 purpuratec1475 gallant1484 flourishinga1552 gorgeous1561 coloured1571 flowerya1616 ornated1630 flosculent1646 luscious1651 chromatic1652 romantic1653 gaudy1655 florid1656 blooming1685 bloomy1685 dressy1713 colouring1807 colorific1812 emblazoned1813 embroidered1868 purple1941 a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 81 Thinke you I can a resolution fetch From flowrie tendernesse? View more context for this quotation 1737 A. Pope Epist. of Horace ii. i. 9 And ev'ry flow'ry Courtier writ Romance. 1772 W. Jones Poems 50 Bowers which oft in flow'ry lays..Arabian poets praise. 1784 R. Bage Barham Downs I. 275 Certain flowery gentlemen, who told us, in very pretty language..that [etc.]. 1824 S. Smith Wks. (1867) II. 191 The answer..was plain and practical; not flowery. 1879 W. H. Dixon Royal Windsor II. xvi. 176 A man of flowery tongue. 7. Heraldry. = fleury adj. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of vegetation > [adjective] > having flowers > having lilies fleuryc1420 flourished1486 fleurettée1562 liliated1643 flowery1681 lilied1796 1681 T. Jordan London's Joy 9 A Double Treasure flowry Counter flowry Mars. 1771 E. Kimber & R. Johnson Wotton's Baronetage of Eng. III. 387 Flowery. This word signifies flowered, or adorned with the French lily. Compounds flowery-kirtled adj. ΚΠ 1637 J. Milton Comus 10 Amidst the flowrie-kirtl'd Naiades. flowery-mantled adj. ΚΠ 1621 G. Sandys tr. Ovid First Five Bks. Metamorphosis ii. 43 Shee..makes The flowry-mantled Earth her happy bed. 1810 Associate Minstr. 75 The flowery-mantled Spring. Derivatives ˈflowerily adv. in a flowery manner. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > [adverb] flower-like1604 florally1820 flower-wise1865 flowerily1886 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adverb] ornatelya1500 gorgeously1532 flourishingly1574 floridly1667 lusciously1779 chromatically1787 flowerily1886 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 31 Dec. 4/2 The critical judgment so flowerily expressed. 1890 Temple Bar July 440 All the neighbourhood, he remarked, flowerily, was talking..about Miss Arden's tulip-beds. ˈfloweriness n. the quality of being flowery. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > [noun] > floweriness floweriness1730 1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum Floweriness, fulness or plenteousness of flowers. 1783 H. Blair Lect. Rhetoric I. xx. 422 That agreeable floweriness of fancy and style. 1821 New Monthly Mag. 2 176 The floweryness and green over-growth of the past season. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.c1374
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