giveygivyadj.
dialect or colloquial.
Inclined to yield or give way; pliable, springy, soft; moist (see also quots.).
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wet weather > [adjective] > wet (of weather, place, or time)
wetc893
moista1398
waterya1398
moistya1500
waterish1545
washy1566
rotten1567
slabby1653
weety1658
late1673
fresh1790
slottery1790
soft1812
givey1829
juicy1837
sploshy1838
sposhy1842
slip-sloppya1845
splishy-splashyc1850
shabby1853
soppy1872
sappy1885
the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > types of softness > [adjective] > soft and moist
bloatc1300
relented?1440
sposhy1842
squelchy1843
givey1859
the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > pliableness > [adjective] > elastic > springy
springy1633
springing1655
bouncy1926
givey1965
1829 Virginia Lit. Museum 30 Dec. 457 Givy, ‘muggy’. The weather is said to be givy, when there is much moisture in the atmosphere.
1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Givy, a term applied to tobacco leaves, in a certain condition of their preparation for market.
1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. 64 The ground is said to be givey when the frost breaks up and the roads become soft and rotten.
1965 ‘S. Harvester’ Assassins Road xiii. 129 He longed to sprawl on a bed. Any bed provided it was givey.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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