gleby

English

Etymology

glebe +‎ -y. Compare Latin glaebosus (“cloddy”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɡliːbi/

Adjective

gleby (comparative more gleby, superlative most gleby)

  1. Relating to the glebe; turfy; cloddy; fertile; fruitful.
    • 1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem in Three Books.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], OCLC 5634253, (please specify the page):
      Pernicious flattery! thy malignant seeds
      In an ill hour, and by fatal hand
      Sadly diffus'd o'er virtue's gleby land,
      With rising pride amidst the corn appear,
      And choke the hopes and harvest of the year.

Synonyms

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for gleby in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Polish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɡlɛ.bɨ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛbɨ
  • Syllabification: gle‧by

Noun

gleby

  1. inflection of gleba:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural
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