Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Consisting of or abounding with surf; resembling surf; foaming; marked by much surf.

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

  • adjective Consisting of, abounding in, or resembling, surf.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective of a shore, having lots of breaking waves
  • adjective characteristic of surf music

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

surf +‎ -y

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Examples

  • They do a kind of surfy version of New Order, bright and clattery, a minimalist collision of the 1950s and the 1980s.

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  • I think YouTube is quite surfy ... in that people aren't really in buying mode, or wanting to be influenced mode when they're on there.

    January 2009 2009

  • I think YouTube is quite surfy ... in that people aren't really in buying mode, or wanting to be influenced mode when they're on there.

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  • In his post about rocket inspired pop culture, Martin Klasch posted this nutty video of a Swedish band called The Spotnicks playing a surfy instrumental number, "The Rocket Man" from 1962.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • The Magnetic Fields 'eighth album, in stores today, begins with a howling, surfy stormer of a song, its title and only lyrics, "Three-way!" repeated three times in three minutes, accompanying a fantastically distant piano roll fit neatly behind a twanging guitar line.

    Magnetic Personality Disorder 2008

  • They looked exactly like that one in Finding Nemo, but didn't regale us with pseudo-hilarious profundities in an irritating surfy voice.

    Archive 2006-01-01 2006

  • They looked exactly like that one in Finding Nemo, but didn't regale us with pseudo-hilarious profundities in an irritating surfy voice.

    adventures in the slow state 2006

  • At certain seasons, when the gulls desert their surfy forelands, the birds of sea and mountain hunt and scream together in the same field by Fairmilehead.

    Edinburgh Picturesque Notes 2005

  • The little isle of Earraid lies close in to the south-west corner of the Ross of Mull: the sound of Iona on one side, across which you may see the isle and church of Columba; the open sea to the other, where you shall be able to mark, on a clear, surfy day, the breakers running white on many sunken rocks.

    Memories and Portraits 2005

  • Of crumbling, fore-foundering, thundering all-surfy seas in; seen5

    'What being in rank-old nature should earlier have that breath been' 1918

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