Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having cliffs; broken; craggy: as, “Vecta's cliffy isle,”

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having cliffs; broken; craggy.

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  • adjective Abounding in cliffs.

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Examples

  • Only famous person I have met, was cliffy B. (dev from gears of war and unreal and such) in an airport bathroom.

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  • The former Bush adviser called this, if we go after it, we'll be hurling ourselves off a cliffy, opposing Sotomayor, what do you think?

    CNN Transcript May 27, 2009 2009

  • The High Coast of Ǻngermanland is the only hilly coastline in east Sweden, a region of steep-sided flat-topped forested hills and cliffy coasts with particularly interesting geology and geomorphology.

    Kvarken Archipelago High Coast, Finland and Sweden 2008

  • I think the reason why Dart Vader never opposed Palpatine because he owe him his life after saving him af the battle of obi wan kenobi cliffy said ...

    The Tao Of Sith 2005

  • The world was made of rock—a deep red rock that looked like nothing on Earth, craggy and cliffy and endless.

    The Shadow Thieves Anne Ursu 2006

  • It was a world made of rock—a deep red rock that looked like nothing on Earth, craggy and cliffy and endless.

    The Shadow Thieves Anne Ursu 2006

  • It was a world made of rock—a deep red rock that looked like nothing on Earth, craggy and cliffy and endless.

    The Shadow Thieves Anne Ursu 2006

  • The world was made of rock—a deep red rock that looked like nothing on Earth, craggy and cliffy and endless.

    The Shadow Thieves Anne Ursu 2006

  • The world was made of rock—a deep red rock that looked like nothing on Earth, craggy and cliffy and endless.

    The Shadow Thieves Anne Ursu 2006

  • It was a world made of rock—a deep red rock that looked like nothing on Earth, craggy and cliffy and endless.

    The Shadow Thieves Anne Ursu 2006

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