FromMiddle Englishsomery; equivalent tosummer +-y. CompareSwedishsomrig(“summery”).
summery (comparativesummerier,superlativesummeriest)
- Relating to thesummer.
She wore a lightsummery dress.
- Of weather, typical of summer.
of weather, typical of summer
summery
- Misspelling ofsummary.
1970,Morris Kominsky, chapterVII, inThe Hoaxers: Plain Liars, Fancy Liars, and Damned Liars[1], volume I, Boston: Branden Press, Inc.,8283-1288-5,page451:We are reasonably certain that every reader will understand the danger and downright immorality of using quotation marks in a careless or flippant manner, that only a person’s actual words may be placed in quotation marks, and that asummery or paraphrase must be so labeled or identified.
2024 February 12, Alaina Demopoulos, “Romcom ending: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s big night at the Super Bowl”, inThe Guardian[2],→ISSN:With Swift, Spice, Lively and Avignone hugging each other, it was a picture-perfect visualsummery of Swift’s brand: manufactured empowerment, a celebration of pop feminist girl power.
