roomthy

English

Etymology

roomth +‎ -y

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɹʊmθi/, /ɹuːmθi/

Adjective

roomthy (comparative more roomthy, superlative most roomthy)

  1. (obsolete) roomy; spacious
    • 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC:
      For he had a capacious head with angles winding, and roomthy enough to lodge all controversiall intricacies […]
    • 1630, Michael Drayton, “Noahs Floud”, in The Muses Elizium Lately Discouered‎, pages 116–117:
      The Beasts each other wooe, the Birds they bill
      As they would say to Noe, they ment to fill
      The roomthy earth, then altogether voyd
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