womby

English

Etymology

From Middle English womby, equivalent to womb +‎ -y.

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -uːmi

Adjective

womby (comparative more womby, superlative most womby)

  1. (obsolete) capacious
    • 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
      Thus says my king; an if your father's highness
      Do not, in grant of all demands at large,
      Sweeten the bitter mock you sent his majesty,
      He'll call you to so hot an answer of it,
      That caves and womby vaultages of France
      Shall chide your trespass and return your mock
      In second accent of his ordnance.
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