"beachy" meaning in English

See beachy in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: beachier [comparative], beachiest [superlative]
Etymology: From beach + -y. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|beach|y}} beach + -y Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} beachy (comparative beachier, superlative beachiest)
  1. Pertaining to the material making up the edge of a seashore, as with pebbles, gravel, and sand.
    Sense id: en-beachy-en-adj-kO2eFowm Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -y, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 99 1 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y: 100 0 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 100 0 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 100 0
  2. Pertaining to a beach or something beach-like.
    Sense id: en-beachy-en-adj-pEwk8N5C
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: beachiness, Beachy Head, unbeachy

Inflected forms

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          "text": "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!",
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