spacyadj.

1602 W. Basse Three Pastoral Elegies ii. sig. C4^v Next to her brest, that faire and beauteous strond,..That white empaled walke, that spacy laund, That smooth, and milky high-way of delight.

1826 G. R. Carter School-boy's Reverie 155 Gems twinkled bright from the spacy concave.

1891 C. T. C. James Romantic Rigmarole vii. 62 My study lamp..throwing a mellow light upon my desk, [and] my spacy blotting-pad.

1936 Lancaster (Ohio) Eagle-Gaz. 15. Apr. 14 (advt.) Well constructed, nicely finished large spacy magazine baskets.

1976 Zigzag Apr. 28/1 The spacey desert feel of the atmospheric ‘South of the Valley’.

2005 Dazed & Confused Dec. 28 Since 2003, the Showroom Dummies have been using artist Abigail Lane's spacey studio in Hackney Wick as their showroom.

1967 Sunday News & Tribune (Jefferson City, Missouri) 20 Aug. 10 b/3 Watch for the trend toward ‘space dresses’, looking like medival [sic] herald's tunics, they're so short... Interpreted also as the Camelot look, here is a fashion query: Are we in the space-y mid-sixties or the Middle Ages?

1969 Rolling Stone 13 Dec. 50/2 There are bits and pieces of interesting, spacey music scattered throughout the album.

1977 Rolling Stone 13 Jan. 62/5 Terje Rypdal..spun spacey riffs clothed in lots of distortion.

1983 S. Silliphant Steel Tiger 195 The spacy sound-tracks from a nearby video-game parlor.

2005 Metal Hammer Dec. 95/4 Stand out tracks ‘A Day In The Death’ and ‘Dirty Vampire Feeding Frenzy’ run from fierce jagged noisecore into spacey, atmospheric metal, with unexpected twists and turns at every line.

1969 Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) 4 i. 15 Spacey, appearing to be functioning on a level higher than normal.

1975 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 12 July 32/6 One time someone asked me if Dylan had changed a lot and I was so spacey I said, ‘Well, he doesn't bum drinks any more.’

1990 Parenting Feb. 26/1 I was so tired and spacey that for a year..I felt as if I had a head injury.

2002 A. Holmes Sleb xii. 85 They have the spacy, seen-the-light smiles of the converted.

1885 Art Jrnl. 189/2 A sense of spaciness in the picture.

1947 Marion (Ohio) Star 5 Sept. 7 (advt.) The delicate colorings of an all-wool Alexander Smith rug or broadloom carpets will add luxury and spaciness to any room.

1996 Q Jan. 98/3 It has the raucous vulgarity of a knees-up around the old joanna after a crate of pale ale, but also the spaciness of a smiley acid dream.