palmy

English

Etymology

From palm + -y.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpɑːmi/

Adjective

palmy (comparative palmier, superlative palmiest)

  1. (obsolete) Made out of palm leaves or palm sap. [15th-19th c.]
  2. Of, related to, or covered with palm trees. [from 16th c.]
  3. Prosperous, flourishing, booming or thriving. [from 17th c.]
    • 1832, The London Spy (volume 2, page 292)
      Elliston was, in his day, the Napoleon of Drury Lane; but, like the conqueror at Austerlitz, he suffered his declensions, and the Surrey became to him a Saint Helena. However, once an eagle always an eagle; and Robert William was no less aquiline in the day of adversity than in his palmy time of patent prosperity.
    • 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage 2007, p. 46:
      ‘It must have been just like the palmy days of the British Drama.’
    • 1967, William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Vintage 2004, p. 48:
      So, all things being equal, from the beginning of my stay with Travis, I was in as palmy and benign a state as I could remember in many years.

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Czech

Noun

palmy

  1. genitive singular of palma
  2. nominative plural of palma
  3. accusative plural of palma
  4. vocative plural of palma

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpal.mɨ/

Noun

palmy

  1. inflection of palma:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative, accusative, and vocative plural

Verb

palmy

  1. first-person plural imperative of palić

Further reading

  • palmy in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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