Primrosey

Full definition of primrosey

Adjective

1. Alternative spelling of en.
• a. 1865, John Clare; Eric Robinson and Geoffrey Summerfield, editors, The Later Poems of John Clare, 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, ... 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, So in they went and found a nice table looking out on a primrosey garden.
• 2012, Elizabeth Dodd, Horizon’s Lens: My Time on the Turning World, 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, Selected Poetry Chapter Gates, Unforeseen byway gates
  Dusty paved primrosey paths
  Mazed traversant roads
• 2022, Frances Tosdevin, An Artist’s Eyes, “And the field of flowers? What catches your eye?” “They’re sort of swirly to me,” said Jo. “Not primrosey, like you saw.”