Definitions for lathy

lathy lath·y

Spelling: [lath-ee, lah-thee]
IPA: /ˈlæθ i, ˈlɑ θi/

Lathy is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 48 anagrams from letters in lathy (ahlty).

Definitions for lathy

adjective

  1. lathlike; long and thin.

Origin of lathy

First recorded in 1665-75; lath + -y1

Examples for lathy

He grew thin and lathy; and, though his smile was as ready and as magnetic as ever, he seldom laughed.

lathy George pulled his reeling cayuse together, and pushed on.

But at length, with a sudden bound upward, the fisher fell with his whole weight upon the back of his lathy antagonist.

Lean and lathy, he is, but not hungry-looking; quick of eye and gesture; quick of step, too.

The elder daughter was, I will not say a lathy girl, but very slim not only in the waist, but above and below it.

Lucy Black was lathy of construction, several years past her girlhood, and not an animated girl.

Phineas was tall and lathy, red-haired, with an expression of great acuteness and shrewdness in his face.

At this time a tall, lathy gentleman came in, wearing a most original cut coatee.

He was a tall, spare man—what is termed long and lathy—but he was evidently a powerful man.

Word Value for lathy
Scrable

11

Words with friends

10

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