sleety

From sleet + -y.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsliːti/

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• Rhymes: -iːti

sleety (comparative sleetier, superlative sleetiest)

1. Covered in sleet; full of sleet.

   sleety weather

   • 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter 17, in Emma: […], volume II, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC:

     Such a man, to quit the tranquillity and independence of his own fireside, and on the evening of a cold sleety April day rush out again into the world!

   • 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Church-yard. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC:

     The little doctor threw off his sleety cloak and hat in the lobby, and stood before the officer fresh and puffing, and a little flustered and dazzled after his romp with the wind.

• Steely, steely, stylee