Word origin
[1620–30, in sense “full of torches”; 1940–45 for this sense;
torch1 +
-y1]This word is first recorded in the period 1620–30. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: clinic, contact, geometric, hotbed, plug-y is a native English suffix of adjectives meaning “characterized by or inclined to”the substance or action of the word or stem to which the suffix is attached. Otherwords that use the affix -y include: dreamy, grouchy, juicy, rumbly