beachy

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Pertaining to the material making up the edge of a seashore, as with pebbles, gravel, and sand.
    — O God that one might reade the booke of fate, / And ſee the reuolution of the times, / Make mountaines leuell, and the continent / Weary of ſolide firmeneſſe melt it ſelfe / Into the ſea, and other times to ſee, / The beachie girdle of the ocean, / Too wide for Neptunes hips, how chances mockes, / And changes fill the cup of alteration, / With diuers liquors!
  2. Pertaining to a beach or something beach-like.
    — 2004 Exporters, here's a "beachy" place to get your feet wet. It's close by, and one of the main tourist destinations in the Caribbean. — USDA site

词形变化

beachier comparative beachiest superlative

词汇关系

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der.
Proto-Germanic *bakiz
Proto-West Germanic *baki
Old English bæċ
Middle English bache
English beach
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English beachy
From beach + -y.
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