gemmy

adj

1. Full of, or covered in, gems.

   “The gemmy bridle glittered free, / Like to some branch of stars we see / Hung in the golden galaxy.”

2. Bright and glittering, as though studded with gems.

   “His mildly vivid dewy beam Of beryl to diffuse: the gleam With elf-light tiniest figures lit Of shapely moon-fair elves who sit Each on a gemmy blade's curled tip In circle.”

   “He looked strained, his eyes gemmy with the determination to sustain all, but his nosy face flat and with a light of pale unhappiness.”

3. (UK, dated, informal)Spruce; smart; jemmy.

name

1. A diminutive of the female given name Gemma.