beachy

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
16
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈbiːt͡ʃi/

Definition of beachy

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

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!”
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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”

name

  1. A surname.

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Etymology

From beach + -y.

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