primrosey

English

Adjective

primrosey (comparative more primrosey, superlative most primrosey)

1. Alternative spelling of primrosy.
   • a. 1865, John Clare, edited by Eric Robinson and Geoffrey Summerfield, The Later Poems of John Clare, Manchester University Press, published 1964, page 205:

     And nothing like primrosey spring

   • 1887, John Ruskin, Hortus Inclusus. Messages from the Wood to the Garden, Sent in Happy Days to the Sister Ladies of the Thwaite, Coniston, New York, N.Y.: Merrill and Baker, […], page 131:

     […] once the wind stops I hope to do a bit of primrosey ground that will be richer.

   • 1966, Enid Blyton, The Mystery of the Pantomime Cat, Dragon Books, published 1987, →ISBN, page 121:

     So in they went and found a nice table looking out on a primrosey garden.

     “primrose” in some editions.

   • 2012, Elizabeth Dodd, Horizon’s Lens: My Time on the Turning World, Lincoln, Neb., London: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 206:

     Maybe there’s a special, filial fondness for fireweed—it was the first plant to be found punching its resilient, primrosey stems up through the scorched waste of tephra and ash.

   • 2013, Paul Shapshak, “Gates”, in Selected Poetry, book II (Variations on Themes), AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 81:

     Unforeseen byway gates / Dusty paved primrosey paths / Mazed traversant roads

   • 2022, Frances Tosdevin, Clémence Monnet, An Artist’s Eyes, Frances Lincoln Children’s Books, →ISBN:

     “And the field of flowers? What catches your eye?” “They’re sort of swirly to me,” said Jo. “Not primrosey, like you saw.”