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单词 housey
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houseyadj.1

Brit. /ˈhaʊzi/, U.S. /ˈhaʊzi/
Forms: 1800s– housey, 1800s– housy.
Origin: Apparently formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: house n.1, house v.1, -y suffix1.
Etymology: Apparently < either house n.1 or house v.1 + -y suffix1, with reference to the volume of the growth being compared to the size of a house. Compare earlier housling n.
Originally English regional (southern).
Of hops: growing thickly at the top, preventing the flowers from gaining exposure to light and air and making harvesting difficult. Cf. house v.1 7, housling n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [adjective] > of hop-plant and parts
seedy1763
lupulinic1845
housey1848
biny1881
1848 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 9 ii. 544 The hop growing and flourishing more under what is called housy bine than any other variety.
1870 Farmer's Mag. Mar. 212/1 Hops grown upon this patented plan can be gathered with much greater ease..as they all hang fair,..having no housey heads or blank tails.
1894 Times 30 July 12/1 The bine is very thick and ‘housey’.
1951 Hop Industry: Rep. Visit U.S.A. & Canada 1950 (Anglo-Amer. Council on Productivity) 47/2 Heavy bines are housy and choke the machines with sheer bulk of vegetable matter.
1992 L. L. Somani Dict. Ecol. & Environment VI. 784 Housey Bine, Hop Bines which are excessively developed so that the cones are enclosed in foliage, making spraying and picking more difficult.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

houseyadj.2

Brit. /ˈhaʊsi/, U.S. /ˈhaʊsi/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: house n.3, -y suffix1.
Etymology: < house n.3 + -y suffix1.
Characteristic of or influenced by house music; belonging to the genre of house music.
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1988 New Musical Express 1 Oct. 22/3 The Housey ‘System of Survival’ becomes a frantic instrumental duel.
1994 Generator Dec. 27/2 I've done a lot of remixes this year, but I've tried to stick to the good housey garage stuff.
1999 M. Silcott Rave Amer. i. 29 In the British acid-house scene, all sorts of housey styles were played—from Chicago records to British DJ records.
2010 Canberra Times (Nexis) 25 Nov. a6 There were two options for that song, and it was either going to be dreamy or housey.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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