"mellowy" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more mellowy [comparative], most mellowy [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle English melowy, equivalent to mellow + -y. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|melowy}} Middle English melowy, {{af|en|mellow|-y}} mellow + -y Head templates: {{en-adj}} mellowy (comparative more mellowy, superlative most mellowy)
  1. Soft; unctuous; loamy.
    Sense id: en-mellowy-en-adj-nEUYdn0y 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: 53 19 19 8 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y: 51 22 18 10 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 68 13 6 13 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 81 8 6 5
  2. Mild; subdued; gentle; not at all harsh or sharp.
    Sense id: en-mellowy-en-adj-sMCHZKIH
  3. Tender; emotional.
    Sense id: en-mellowy-en-adj-UHlVPvjb
  4. (of plants) Mature and soft; ripe.
    Sense id: en-mellowy-en-adj-8bYVEY5k
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          "text": "Like a stream-wrestling lily of mellowy gold, What sweet parted lips, and what glozy blue eyes, Purple-steeped as the heartsease held up to the light!",
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          "text": "I have investigated with great care the alterations of the soft, free, mellowy character of the normal respiratory murmurs, in all the cases of auscultation I have met for some years, and I have learned to give to this class of signs more weight than is usually assigned to them.",
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          "ref": "1928, Country Life - Volume 55, page 127:",
          "text": "Get the fun of \"playing\" outdoors in the mellowy energising winter sunshine.",
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          "ref": "1839, Margaret Richardson, The Buds of Hope: A Collection of Miscellaneous Poems, page 48:",
          "text": "Autumn's rich mellowy fruit bedecks the trees, Laid low, beneath a winter's stormy skies.",
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