dewey

See also: Dewey

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

dewey (comparative more dewey, superlative most dewey)

  1. Obsolete form of dewy.
    • 1852, The Cultivator: A Monthly Publication, Devoted to Agriculture:
      115 lbs. of green, dewey grass
    • 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
      For Memnon was that dewey, royal boy, son of Aurora, and born King of Egypt, who, with enthusiastic rashness flinging himself on another’s account into a rightful quarrel, fought hand to hand with his overmatch, and met his boyish and most dolorous death beneath the walls of Troy.

Etymology 2

A phonetic pronunciation of the initialism DUI, particularly in some rural areas of the US.

Noun

dewey (plural deweys)

  1. (US, slang, humorous, uncommon) A charge of DUI.

Middle English

Verb

dewey

  1. alternative form of dewyn
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