Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the properties (as the smell, etc.) of bilge-water.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the smell of bilge water.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Containing, or resembling,
bilge .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective smelling like bilge water
Etymologies
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bilge + -y
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Examples
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Robert Louis arrived "bilgy," as he expressed it, but alive.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers Elbert Hubbard 1885
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While I missed the maple trees and privet hedges and the bilgy smell of low tide, they enthusiastically showed me around.
In the Fullness of Time Emily W. Upham 2010
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