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 breakingwaves - adjective characteristic of surf music
Etymologies
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Examples
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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They looked exactly like that one in Finding Nemo, but didn't regale us with pseudo-hilarious profundities in an irritating surfy voice.
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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.
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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.
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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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