Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Resembling peat; abounding in peat; composed of peat.

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

  • adjective Composed of peat; abounding in peat; resembling peat.

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  • adjective Of or resembling peat, especially the taste or smell.
  • adjective Containing peat.

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  • adjective of or pertaining to or of the nature of peat

Etymologies

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peat +‎ -y

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Examples

  • Of these, the best are those rich in organic matter, the so-called peaty soils.

    Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman

  • The first kind is either properly peat, or otherwise of soil largely composed of peat, (making what I will call peaty soil.)

    Agricultural, Geological, and Descriptive Sketches of Lower North Carolina, and the Similar Adjacent Lands 1861

  • I smoke and had 4 deer within 10 feet of me the other day 3 bucks/1 doe. and the only one that even knew that I was there was a sml. 6pt that I named "peaty".

    My brother and I have been hunting for years together. 2009

  • I smoke and had 4 deer within 10 feet of me the other day 3 bucks/1 doe. and the only one that even knew that I was there was a sml. 6pt that I named "peaty".

    My brother and I have been hunting for years together. 2009

  • Its action in decomposing vegetable matter and rendering the inert nitrogen it contains available for the plant's use, is also one of its most important properties, and accounts for its beneficial action when applied to soils, such as peaty soils, rich in organic matter.

    Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman

  • The absence of the nitrifying organisms in certain soils, such as peaty and forest soils, may be thus accounted for.

    Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman

  • These islands, situated in the same latitude with Tierra del Fuego and only between two and three hundred miles distant from it, having a nearly similar climate, with a geological formation almost identical, with favourable situations and the same kind of peaty soil, yet can boast of few plants deserving even the title of bushes; whilst in Tierra del Fuego it is impossible to find an acre of land not covered by the densest forest.

    Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

  • These islands, situated in the same latitude with Tierra del Fuego and only between two and three hundred miles distant from it, having a nearly similar climate, with a geological formation almost identical, with favourable situations and the same kind of peaty soil, yet can boast of few plants deserving even the title of bushes; whilst in Tierra del Fuego it is impossible to find an acre of land not covered by the densest forest.

    Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

  • These islands, situated in the same latitude with Tierra del Fuego and only between two and three hundred miles distant from it, having a nearly similar climate, with a geological formation almost identical, with favourable situations and the same kind of peaty soil, yet can boast of few plants deserving even the title of bushes; whilst in Tierra del Fuego it is impossible to find an acre of land not covered by the densest forest.

    Chapter III 1909

  • These islands, situated in the same latitude with Tierra del Fuego and only between two and three hundred miles distant from it, having a nearly similar climate, with a geological formation almost identical, with favourable situations and the same kind of peaty soil, yet can boast of few plants deserving even the title of bushes; whilst in Tierra del Fuego it is impossible to find an acre of land not covered by the densest forest.

    The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin 1845

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  • Often used to describe the flavours of single malts esp those from Islay esp Laphroaig.

    January 17, 2009

  • Probably kinder than boggy.

    January 17, 2009