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▪ I. wordy, wordie, n. Sc.|ˈwɜːdɪ|
[f. word n. + -y6.]
A little or slight word.
1718Ramsay Christ's Kirk Gr. iii. xx, She her man like a lammy led Hame, wi' a well-wail'd wordy. 1785Burns To Rev. J. M'Math iii, A pack..Wha..Can easy, wi' a single wordie, Lowse hell upon me. a1840J. Baillie Song, Woo'd & Married 38 Weel waled were his wordies.
▪ II. wordy, a.|ˈwɜːdɪ|
[Late OE. wordiᵹ, f. word n. + -iᵹ, -y1.]
1. Full of or abounding in words.
a. Of speech or writing: Consisting of or containing many words; = verbose 1.
c1100Aldhelm Gloss. in Napier O.E. Glosses 38/1416 Uerbosa, wordiᵹ. 1382Wyclif 1 Cor. Prol., Wordy eloquence of philosophie. 1641Bp. Hall Answ. Vind. Smect. 103 In this their wordy, and wearisome Volume. 1713Rowe Jane Shore iii. i, To deal in wordy Compliment Is much against the Plainness of my Nature. 1778R. Lowth Transl. Isaiah Prelim. Diss. p. lxviii, The Chaldee Paraphrase..often wanders from the Text in a wordy allegorical explanation. 1853Hallam Mid. Ages (ed. 10) ii. Note 5. I. 297 If the Franks scorned the complex and wordy jurisprudence of Rome. a1873Lytton Pausanias i. (1876) 49 The Athenian fashion of wordy boasting. 1877Kinglake Crimea (1880) VI. ix. 309 This despatch was beyond measure wordy.
b. Of a person: Using an excess of words; = verbose 2; occas. garrulous, talkative.
1382Wyclif Job xvi. 21 My woordi frendis [1388 ful of wordis]. 1483Cath. Angl. 423/2 Wordy, verbosus, & cetera; vbi Chaterer. 1636Sir R. Baker Cato Variegatus 9 Words against wordy men, thou must not vse. 1712Steele Spect. No. 448 ⁋1 Phocion, beholding a wordy Orator, while he was making a magnificent Speech to the People. 1854R. S. Surtees Handley Cr. xiv. (1901) I. 106 The barber's pretty but rather wordy wife. 1881Stevenson Virg. Puerisque 80 A wordy, prolegomenous babbler.
†2. Skilled in the use of words. Obs. rare.
1603J. Davies (Heref.) Microcosmos Wks. (Grosart) I. 80/1 Be he a Pleader, and a wordie Man. 1609― Hum. Heav. on Earth ii. lxviii, Some wordy-men, by words, sought worthinesse. 1680Otway Orphan iv. vii, You talk to me in Parables, Chamont; You may have known that I'm no wordy Man.
3. Consisting or expressed in words; of words; verbal. Now chiefly in phr. wordy war. (Often with mixture of sense 1 a.)
1627W. Sclater Expos. 2 Thess. (1629) 129 Intrusion on Gods Prerogatiues royall is rather in facts, then wordy profession. 1685Baxter Paraphr. N.T. James ii. 14 Is not a meer wordy Profession an unprofitable thing to your selves..? Will..saying you believe, profit to Salvation, if you..live not according to the Gospel? 1715Rowe Lady Jane Gray i. i, These Clergy Quarrels, These wordy Wars of proud ill-manner'd Schoolmen. 1741B. Franklin Poor Richard (1890) 111 He that talks much, talks in vain; We from the wordy torrent fly. 1791Cowper Iliad ii. 463 All that wordy tempest for a girl. 1814Byron Lara i. xxiii, To mar The mirthful meeting with a wordy war. 1860Tennyson Sea Dreams 31 When the wordy storm Had ended.
▪ III. wordy, -nesse
obs. ff. worthy, worthiness. |