ripplyadj.
/ˈrɪpli/, /ˈrɪpl̩i/, U.S. /ˈrɪp(ə)li/ Marked or characterized by ripples.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > movement of waves > [adjective] > rippling
pirling1581
rippling1589
wimpling1721
riffling1754
ripply1775
braided1885
wimpled1909
the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [adjective] > wavy
oundeda1425
oundya1425
rippled1842
waved1863
ripply1875
1775 J. Melvin Jrnl. Exped. Quebec (1857) 13 I proceeded down Chaudeur river,..and came to a riply place, which was very dangerous, the rocks standing up all over the river.
1807 J. Barlow Columbiad iv. 160 The moonbeam..Silvers with trembling tints the ripply tide.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Edwin Morris 98 We..ran By ripply shallows of the lisping lake.
1875 J. Grant One of Six Hundred ix Undoing her hair, she cut a long and ripply tress.
a1891 J. R. Lowell Early Poems (1892) 176 Like ripply lights the sunshine weaves..On the o'erarching platan-leaves.
1947 Econ. Geogr. 23 153/1 It is just as fresh as mountain water in its style—in places just as sparkling and ripply.
2000 K. Charles Cruel Habitations (2001) iii. 36 The glass was old and ripply; it distorted the view just a tiny bit.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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