leavyadj.

Brit.

/ˈliːvi/, U.S.

/ˈlivi/

Forms: late Middle English leuy, 1500s–1600s leauie, 1500s–1600s leauy, 1500s–1600s leuie, 1500s– leavy, 1600s leavie.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: leaf n.¹, -y suffix¹.

Etymology: < leaf n.¹ (compare β. forms and discussion at that entry) + -y suffix¹. Compare later leafy adj.

a. Chiefly literary. Having or covered with leaves or foliage.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > plant defined by leaves > [adjective]

in (full) leafOE

leavedc1300

leavy?1440

leafya1522

leavish1530

leafed1552

fronded1640

folious1658

foliaceous1676

frondent1677

furnished1712

foliose1727

leaf-strewn1730

foliaged1816

foliiferous1828

frondous1828

frondiparous1866

tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iv. l. 486 With leuy bowis [L. cum ramis foliatis] puld ek let hem be By nyght.

1567 G. Turberville tr. G. B. Spagnoli Eglogs ix. f. 86 The aire that shooke the leauie boughs from Eurus did arise.

c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme xcvi. 34 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 145 Leauy Infants of the wood.

1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xxi. 40 The leauie shelter that abutts against the Islands side.

1637 J. Milton Comus 10 Dim darknesse, and this leavie Labyrinth.

1651 Bp. J. Taylor XXVIII Serm. i. xxi. 266 So doth the humble vine creep at the foot of an oak..and [they] are the most remarkable of friends..of all the leavie nation.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 64 Soft Whispers run along the leavy Woods.

1745 tr. L. J. M. Columella Of Husbandry ix. ix. 399 A green leavy little tree.

1832 Ld. Tennyson Margaret in Poems (new ed.) 146 And faint, rainy lights are seen, Moving in the leavy beech.

1833 Ld. Tennyson Poems 42 I heard..The nightingale in leavy woods Call to its mate.

1929 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 14 Mar. 11/4 I look down..and watch the long quiet waves come in through crevices of the leavy boughs.

1965 H. Bird Battle for Continent ii. 19 Coulon de Villiers inched his head up over a rotting log and, through the lower stems of a leavy bush, looked out over the Great Meadow.

2009 G. Gilman Cloud & Ashes ii. 77 He saw a stone and a thorn tree, deep in green embrace. The moon was tangled in the leavy thorn.

b. Consisting or made of leaves. Now only of edible plants.Not always clearly distinguishable from sense 1a.

ΚΠ

1595 F. Sabie Pans Pipe sig. C^v At the higher end of the haule..with leauy wreaths on his head sat great Syluanus adorned.

1610 G. Fletcher Christs Victorie 6 He fled thy sight,..And for his shield a leauie armour weau'd.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Fueillure,..also, leafe-worke, or a leauie flourishing.

1700 J. Dryden Flower & Leaf in Fables 402 And all her Train with leavy Chaplets crown'd.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Phyllon, the Leaf of a Tree, &c. also a leavy Herb, which some take for Knot-grass.

1763 in F. Fawkes & W. Woty Poet. Cal. IX. 29 An heavenly form appear'd; A leavy crown adorn'd her radiant head.

1849 E. C. Otté tr. A. von Humboldt Cosmos II. i. i. 433 The grouping of the clouds, the rustling of the air amid the crowded bamboos, the waving of the leavy crown of the slender palms, are all sketched with inimitable truth.

1964 N.Y. Times 22 Jan. 41/7 The dark green leaves of leavy vegetables are richer in nutrients, particularly in vitamins A and C, than light green leaves.

2004 Red Oct. 289/3 Consider..eating more folate-rich foods such as..leavy vegetables.

†c. Of a season: characterized by trees, shrubs, etc., being in leaf, abounding in foliage. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by good growth > [adjective] > flourishing or luxuriant in growth > of a season

leavy1600

lush1818

1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. iii. 72 The fraud of men was euer so, Since summer first was leauy .

1624 J. Penkethman tr. Epigrams P. Virgilius Maro & Others xx. sig. C4 From Earth spring purple flowres ith' leauy Spring.

†2. Having hinged leaves. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [adjective] > having (a) gate(s) > types of gate

leavy?1611

turnstile1688

five-bar1709

five-barred1733

paled1800

?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads vi. 86 Take the key, vnlocke the leauie gates.

?a1656 J. Poole Eng. Parnassus (1657) 101 Gate, Brasse-rib'd, leavie, folded, plankie, studded, creaking.

Derivatives

† leaviness n. Obsolete (a) suppleness, flexibility (apparently from a quality of leafy saplings); (b) the quality or state of being leafy.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > [noun] > leafiness

leaviness1598

leafiness1627

frondosity1656

frondoseness1727

1598 Health to Gentlemanly Profession Seruingmen sig. F3 Is it possible to bende or bow a strong Oke as a young Sapline? or to teach the olde fyngers that are growen styffe and starke, to their full age, to play vpon any musicall Instrument, with such facilitie and leauinesse of ioyntes, as the young Fingers that are nimble?

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Fueillure, Leauinesse.

1680 P. Rycaut Mem. cont. Hist. Turks iii. 319 in Hist. Turkish Empire The shady leaviness of two tall Elms.

1766 E. Buys Sewel's Compl. Dict. Eng. & Dutch (new ed.) II. 430/1 Leaviness, bebladerdheid, loofrykheid.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	leavy
释义	leavyadj. Brit. /ˈliːvi/, U.S. /ˈlivi/ Forms: late Middle English leuy, 1500s–1600s leauie, 1500s–1600s leauy, 1500s–1600s leuie, 1500s– leavy, 1600s leavie. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: leaf n.¹, -y suffix¹. Etymology: < leaf n.¹ (compare β. forms and discussion at that entry) + -y suffix¹. Compare later leafy adj. 1. a. Chiefly literary. Having or covered with leaves or foliage. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > plant defined by leaves > [adjective] in (full) leafOE leavedc1300 leavy?1440 leafya1522 leavish1530 leafed1552 fronded1640 folious1658 foliaceous1676 frondent1677 furnished1712 foliose1727 leaf-strewn1730 foliaged1816 foliiferous1828 frondous1828 frondiparous1866 tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iv. l. 486 With leuy bowis [L. cum ramis foliatis] puld ek let hem be By nyght. 1567 G. Turberville tr. G. B. Spagnoli Eglogs ix. f. 86 The aire that shooke the leauie boughs from Eurus did arise. c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme xcvi. 34 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 145 Leauy Infants of the wood. 1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xxi. 40 The leauie shelter that abutts against the Islands side. View more context for this quotation 1637 J. Milton Comus 10 Dim darknesse, and this leavie Labyrinth. 1651 Bp. J. Taylor XXVIII Serm. i. xxi. 266 So doth the humble vine creep at the foot of an oak..and [they] are the most remarkable of friends..of all the leavie nation. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 64 Soft Whispers run along the leavy Woods. View more context for this quotation 1745 tr. L. J. M. Columella Of Husbandry ix. ix. 399 A green leavy little tree. 1832 Ld. Tennyson Margaret in Poems (new ed.) 146 And faint, rainy lights are seen, Moving in the leavy beech. 1833 Ld. Tennyson Poems 42 I heard..The nightingale in leavy woods Call to its mate. 1929 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 14 Mar. 11/4 I look down..and watch the long quiet waves come in through crevices of the leavy boughs. 1965 H. Bird Battle for Continent ii. 19 Coulon de Villiers inched his head up over a rotting log and, through the lower stems of a leavy bush, looked out over the Great Meadow. 2009 G. Gilman Cloud & Ashes ii. 77 He saw a stone and a thorn tree, deep in green embrace. The moon was tangled in the leavy thorn. b. Consisting or made of leaves. Now only of edible plants.Not always clearly distinguishable from sense 1a. ΚΠ 1595 F. Sabie Pans Pipe sig. C^v At the higher end of the haule..with leauy wreaths on his head sat great Syluanus adorned. 1610 G. Fletcher Christs Victorie 6 He fled thy sight,..And for his shield a leauie armour weau'd. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Fueillure,..also, leafe-worke, or a leauie flourishing. 1700 J. Dryden Flower & Leaf in Fables 402 And all her Train with leavy Chaplets crown'd. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Phyllon, the Leaf of a Tree, &c. also a leavy Herb, which some take for Knot-grass. 1763 in F. Fawkes & W. Woty Poet. Cal. IX. 29 An heavenly form appear'd; A leavy crown adorn'd her radiant head. 1849 E. C. Otté tr. A. von Humboldt Cosmos II. i. i. 433 The grouping of the clouds, the rustling of the air amid the crowded bamboos, the waving of the leavy crown of the slender palms, are all sketched with inimitable truth. 1964 N.Y. Times 22 Jan. 41/7 The dark green leaves of leavy vegetables are richer in nutrients, particularly in vitamins A and C, than light green leaves. 2004 Red Oct. 289/3 Consider..eating more folate-rich foods such as..leavy vegetables. †c. Of a season: characterized by trees, shrubs, etc., being in leaf, abounding in foliage. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by good growth > [adjective] > flourishing or luxuriant in growth > of a season leavy1600 lush1818 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. iii. 72 The fraud of men was euer so, Since summer first was leauy . View more context for this quotation 1624 J. Penkethman tr. Epigrams P. Virgilius Maro & Others xx. sig. C4 From Earth spring purple flowres ith' leauy Spring. †2. Having hinged leaves. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [adjective] > having (a) gate(s) > types of gate leavy?1611 turnstile1688 five-bar1709 five-barred1733 paled1800 ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads vi. 86 Take the key, vnlocke the leauie gates. ?a1656 J. Poole Eng. Parnassus (1657) 101 Gate, Brasse-rib'd, leavie, folded, plankie, studded, creaking. Derivatives † leaviness n. Obsolete (a) suppleness, flexibility (apparently from a quality of leafy saplings); (b) the quality or state of being leafy. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > [noun] > leafiness leaviness1598 leafiness1627 frondosity1656 frondoseness1727 1598 Health to Gentlemanly Profession Seruingmen sig. F3 Is it possible to bende or bow a strong Oke as a young Sapline? or to teach the olde fyngers that are growen styffe and starke, to their full age, to play vpon any musicall Instrument, with such facilitie and leauinesse of ioyntes, as the young Fingers that are nimble? 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Fueillure, Leauinesse. 1680 P. Rycaut Mem. cont. Hist. Turks iii. 319 in Hist. Turkish Empire The shady leaviness of two tall Elms. 1766 E. Buys Sewel's Compl. Dict. Eng. & Dutch (new ed.) II. 430/1 Leaviness, bebladerdheid, loofrykheid. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.?1440
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