Synonyms for downy


Grammar : Adj
Spell : dou-nee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdaʊ ni

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Définition of downy

Origin :
  • 1570s, from down (n.1) + -y (2).
  • adj fluffy
Example sentences :
  • The hens were clucking to their downy chicks just out of the egg.
  • Extract from : « The Village Watch-Tower » by (AKA Kate Douglas Riggs) Kate Douglas Wiggin
  • Fluffy, tell Downy the little story I told you the other day, about the sunbeam.
  • Extract from : « Five Mice in a Mouse-trap » by Laura E. Richards
  • I must stay in the house till dinner, and I could read to Downy.
  • Extract from : « Five Mice in a Mouse-trap » by Laura E. Richards
  • Well, Downy boy, I have never been in the sun, so I really cannot tell you.
  • Extract from : « Five Mice in a Mouse-trap » by Laura E. Richards
  • Downy paused a moment and looked at his uncle in astonishment.
  • Extract from : « Five Mice in a Mouse-trap » by Laura E. Richards
  • The veil is absent, or, if present, it is downy and adherent to the margin of the cap.
  • Extract from : « The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise » by M. E. Hard
  • Atrotomentosus is from ater, black, and tomentum, woolly or downy.
  • Extract from : « The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise » by M. E. Hard
  • Then, remembering, he sprang from the downy bed to his feet.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 » by Various
  • I return to my study and in about fifteen minutes Downy is back at work.
  • Extract from : « The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers » by John Burroughs
  • Well, whatever the case, I was sleeping as though on downy beds of ease.
  • Extract from : « The Red Acorn » by John McElroy

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