womby
English
Etymology
From Middle English womby, equivalent to womb + -y.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -uːmi
Adjective
womby (comparative more womby, superlative most womby)
- (obsolete) capacious
- Shakespeare, Henry V
- Thus says my king; an if your father's highness
Do not, in grant of all demands at large,
Sweeten the bitter mock you sent his majesty,
He'll call you to so hot an answer of it,
That caves and womby vaultages of France
Shall chide your trespass and return your mock
In second accent of his ordnance.
- Thus says my king; an if your father's highness
- Shakespeare, Henry V
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