Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Rising in surges or billows; full of surges; produced by surges.

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

  • adjective Rising in surges or billows; full of surges; resembling surges in motion or appearance; swelling.

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  • adjective Rising in surges or billows; full of surges; resembling surges in motion or appearance; swelling.

Etymologies

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surge +‎ -y

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Examples

  • There were 10 Americans killed yesterday, in this horrible surgy month of killing and wounding, but amoral insane foreign policy specialists would keep us in Iraq forever.

    Matthew Yglesias » Training 2007

  • Al-Qaeda, especially in these surgy times, is evidently everywhere in Iraq; millions and millions.

    Matthew Yglesias » Occupation is Hard 2007

  • In full view, and lit up by the reflected radiance flung out from the dome, a rushing waterfall made sonorous surgy music of its own as it tumbled headlong into a rocky recess overgrown with lotus-lilies and plumy fern, -- here and there, small, white and gold tents or pavilions glimmered invitingly through the shadows cast by the great magnolia trees, from whose lovely half-shut buds balmy odors crept deliciously through the warm air.

    Ardath Marie Corelli 1889

  • Arindel ascends the surgy deep in his boat, to bring Daura to the land.

    Fragments of Ancient Poetry James MacPherson 1766

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