Definitions for roily

roily roil·y

Spelling: [roi-lee]
IPA: /ˈrɔɪ li/

Roily is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 40 anagrams from letters in roily (ilory).

Definitions for roily

adjective

  1. turbid; muddy.
  2. turbulent.

Origin of roily

First recorded in 1815-25; roil + -y1

Examples for roily

How his roily thoughts would run clear; how the sediment would go downstream!

The grass very tender and succulent, the streams full and roily.

His own thoughts were as that roily pool where he had ducked the old man in the darkness.

The water was choppy and roily, the canoe bobbed a good deal, the anchors dragged, and we did not see any fish.

The water was not roily, but of a rich coffee-color, from the leachings of the woods.

Wind, rain, roily, shoaly seas breaking clear over the ship across decks drove Cook out from land to deeper water.

No; I need a buckler till all this roily water subsides and clears.

Then the Sioux plunged their feverish faces into the roily water and drank as eagerly as the ponies.

He climbed out, shook himself and sent a roily spray flying in all directions.

roily is built on a hill, or, rather, on a mound which overlooks a great stretch of prairie.

Word Value for roily
Scrable

8

Words with friends

8

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