malmy

English

Etymology

From malm +‎ -y.

Adjective

malmy (comparative more malmy, superlative most malmy)

1. Resembling or characteristic of malm.
   • 1809, Arthur Young, View of the Agriculture of Oxfordshire, page 9:

     It becomes what is here called a clay soil; in other counties, a malmy one.

   • 1836, Gilbert White, The Natural History of Selborne, with Its Antiquities, page xii:

     The tough malmy clay at the bottom of the hill comes very nearly down to the right side of the road here; […]