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Definition of Gulfy
1. a. Full of whirlpools or gulfs.
Definition of Gulfy
1. Adjective. Characterized by or full of gulfs or whirlpools. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gulfy
1. full of whirlpools [adj GULFIER, GULFIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gulfy
Literary usage of Gulfy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Synopsis of Criticisms Upon Those Passages of the Old Testament in which by Richard Arthur Francis Barrett (1847)
"By the breath of thy nostrils upheaved were the waters ; upright stood the surges,
like an heap ; condensed were the gulfy billows in the midst of the sea. ..."
2. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"Id. England his approaches makes as fierce As waters to the sucking of a gulf.
id, Rivers arise ; whether thou be the son Of utmost Tweed, or Ouse, or gulfy ..."
3. The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review by John Henry Newman, James Shergold Boone (1794)
"With the gulfy billows he covered them ; to the bottom ... were the gulfy "
billows in the ..."
4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"To pass the gulfy purple sea that did no seu-rites know. Rivers, arise ; whether
thou be the son Of utmost Tweed, or Oose, ..."
5. The Iliad of Homer: Translated Into English Verse in the Spenserian Stanza by Homer, Philip Stanhope Worsley, John Conington (1868)
"1 EUT when they reached the bank of that fair flood, Xanthus the gulfy, of Zeus
born and bred, In twain he sundered whom he erst pursued; ..."
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