Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryCovered by dew. · Having the quality of bearing droplets of water. · Resembling or characteristic of dew. · Fresh and innocent.
From Middle English dewy, deuhy, from Old English dēawiġ, from Proto-West Germanic *dauwag, *dauwīg, equivalent to dew + -y.
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