Peachy

/ˈpiːt͡ʃi/ · adjective

Meaning

Resembling a peach, peach-like..

Definitions by Sense

1. Resembling a peach, peach-like.
2. (colloquial) Very good, excellent, typically used sarcastically to indicate a state of misery, resentment or great frustration.

Example Sentences

peachy cheeks

Although this is an apricot pie, it tastes peachy.

Young Fledgeby had a peachy cheek, or a cheek compounded of the peach and the red red red wall on which it grows, and was an awkward, sandy-haired, small-eyed youth, exceeding slim (his enemies would have said lanky), and prone to self-examination in the articles of whisker and moustache.

[…] she had deep, tender eyes, with long, curved lashes; and she had peachy cheeks, and a dimpled chin, and such a dear little dewy rosebud of a mouth; and she was so dove-like, so pure, and so gracious, so sweet and bewitching.

“If I am not well-informed it shall be by no fault of my own,” she would say to herself through the tears that would occasionally glide down her peachy cheeks when she was fairly baffled by the portentous obscurity of many of these educational works.

“Mercy! If I had a husband whose business it was to look at women's beautiful eyes, peachy cheeks, and luxurious tresses, I should go crazy! […]”

Not quite nude, not quite pink, the peachy sheen is a pretty (and pretty easy) direction for summer.

Oh, life is just peachy now that winter has come, it’s snowing all the time, and I’m freezing my backside off.

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Word Forms

• peachier
• peachiest

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