Meaning

4 senses
  1. Someone or something considered flowery.

    (informal, rare)A flowery person.

  2. (informal, rare)A flowery phrase or statement.

  3. (informal, rare)A flowery decoration.

  4. (rare)A place where flowers grow.

Examples

5 sentences
  1. No flowery path guides to glory.

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  2. This towel has a flowery smell.

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  3. The socks the girl wore were flowery.

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  4. Mary wore a flowery skirt.

    ruНа Мэри была юбка в цветочек.

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  5. One day in a wide, flowery field he met a bear, a big Russian bear.

    ruОднажды на большом цветочном поле он встретил медведя. Большого русского медведя.

    deEines Tages traf er auf einem weiten, blumenübersäten Feld einen Bären, einen großen russischen Bären.

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Origin

From Middle English floury, equivalent to flower + -y (adjectival suffix). Piecewise doubl

From Middle English floury, equivalent to flower + -y (adjectival suffix). Piecewise doublet of floury.

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Forms

plural: floweries
Singularflowery
Pluralfloweries

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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