crocussy

Definitions

Adjective. [B2]

Examples

“On the toast see⟳ the savory snipe dream⟳ / Like⟳ an epicure lost in a tripe-dream, / While the spring⟳ poet’s soul / Soars to song’s golden goal / In a shad-roesy, crocussy pipe-dream.”

“Undoubtedly the best moment of that wretched start⟳ to the year was when we returned to Carshalton (a sunny, crocussy, even spring-like Carshalton, I’m glad to say⟳) to collect⟳ Otis.”

“O how Spring’s archaic language sounds its horn. O how crocussy clichés and daffodils pop up, their bright aroma—golden, isn’t it?—rising stiff and prurient in the earth’s moist slickness, old men thinking about their births, or bacon and eggs, for who can follow⟳ the Byzantine pathways of their brains?”

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