adj
Meaning 1
Covered in or overgrown with moss.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: moss-grown
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
mossy
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmɒsi/
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US: /ˈmɔsi/
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US: /ˈmɑsi/
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rhymes with -ɒsi
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noun
Meaning 2
Alternative form of mossie (“mosquito”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, New-Zealand, UK, alt-of, alternative, colloquial
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
(used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- moss-grown ideas about family life
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fogyish, moss-grown, stick-in-the-mud(p), stodgy
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
overgrown with moss
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: moss-grown
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English mossy, equivalent to moss + -y.
Across languages
Translations
31 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: мъхест (mǎhest) — covered in or overgrown with moss
- Catalan: molsut — covered in or overgrown with moss
- Catalan: molsós — covered in or overgrown with moss
- Chinese Mandarin: 長滿青苔的 /长满青苔的 (zhǎng mǎn qīngtái de) — covered in or overgrown with moss
- Dutch: mossig — covered in or overgrown with moss
- Esperanto: muska — covered in or overgrown with moss
- Finnish: sammaleinen — covered in or overgrown with moss
- Finnish: sammaloitunut — covered in or overgrown with moss
- French: moussu — covered in or overgrown with moss
- French: moussue — covered in or overgrown with moss
- Galician: musgoso — covered in or overgrown with moss
- Galician: musguento — covered in or overgrown with moss
- Hungarian: mohos — covered in or overgrown with moss
- Hungarian: mohlepte — covered in or overgrown with moss
- Irish: móinteach — covered in or overgrown with moss
- Irish: móintiúil — covered in or overgrown with moss
- Italian: muscoso — covered in or overgrown with moss
- Italian: muscosa — covered in or overgrown with moss
- Latin: muscōsus — covered in or overgrown with moss
- Macedonian: мовлив (movliv) — covered in or overgrown with moss
- Polish: omszały — covered in or overgrown with moss
- Polish: mszysty — covered in or overgrown with moss
- Portuguese: musgoso — covered in or overgrown with moss
- Russian: мши́стый (mšístyj) — covered in or overgrown with moss
- Russian: замше́лый (zamšélyj) — covered in or overgrown with moss
- Russian: обомше́лый (obomšélyj) — covered in or overgrown with moss
- Spanish: musgoso — covered in or overgrown with moss
- Swedish: mossig — covered in or overgrown with moss
- Ukrainian: мохови́тий (moxovýtyj) — covered in or overgrown with moss
- Ukrainian: моха́стий (moxástyj) — covered in or overgrown with moss
- Ukrainian: моши́стий (mošýstyj) — covered in or overgrown with moss
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