gulfyadj.
/ˈɡʌlfi/ poetic.
1. Full of eddies or whirlpools. Also, whirlpool-like.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > whirlpool > [adjective] > full of
gulfy1594
gulf-stomached?1611
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > whirlpool > [adjective] > like
vorageous1490
gulfy1594
voraginous1624
1594 R. Carew tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne iv. 141 There thousands vncleane Harpyes might you vew,..And gulffy Scillaes an huge barcking crew.
1598 G. Chapman tr. Homer Seauen Bks. Iliades ii. 538 Well built ships..To passe the gulffy purple Sea.
1673 J. Milton At Vacation Exercise in Poems (new ed.) 68 Rivers arise; whether thou be the Son, Of utmost Tweed, or Oose, or gulphie Dun.
1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. ii. 1071 Where gulphy Xanthus foams along the Fields.
1792 E. Darwin Bot. Garden i. 49 The cliffs of Orkney's gulphy coast.
1856 T. Aird Poet. Wks. (new ed.) 69 He sate and eyed The gulfy eddyings of the woolly smoke.
2. † a. figurative. Deep as an abyss; abysmal. Obsolete.figurative.1879 G. MacDonald Sir Gibbie I. xi. 161 The cracks, crannies, and gulfy faults of our belief.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > vertical extent > extension downwards or depth > [adjective] > very
groundlessc888
bottomlessc1400
profound?a1425
neal1574
soundlessc1595
insoundable1602
gulfy1607
unbottomed1615
depthless1619
unsoundable1629
chin-deep1634
fathomless1638
abysming1644
unfounded1648
abysmal1656
plumbless1665
unfathomablea1676
chasmy1793
fathom-deep1835
plummetlessc1861
chasmal1871
abyssal1903
1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse 154 The gulfye bottome of despaire.
1738 H. Brooke tr. T. Tasso Jerusalem ii. 641 One step alone 'twixt triumph and defeat, The gulphy ruin and the towery height.
b. Full of hollows or depths.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hollow or depression > [adjective]
bosomy1611
denny1656
gulfy1791
pockety1893
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xxi. 447 Into his gulphy channel rush'd The refluent flood.
1807 J. Barlow Columbiad iv. 152 The waves..scoop that gulphy bed.
1839 W. B. Stonehouse Hist. Isle of Axholme 309 A narrow, miry, and gulphy lane.
1871 G. Macdonald Wks. Fancy & Imagination IV. 106 The well-pleased stars Threw quivering smiles across the gulfy skies.
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