1. downy - Noun
2. downy - Adjective
3. downy - Adjective Satellite
Covered with down, or with pubescence or soft hairs.
Made of, or resembling, down. Hence, figuratively: Soft; placid; soothing; quiet.
Cunning; wary.
Source: Webster's dictionary. . . people who love downy peaches are apt not to think of the stone, and sometimes jar their teeth terribly against it. George Eliot
There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads.... It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle.... George Eliot
He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. Robert Frost
O blissful poverty! Nature, too partial! to thy lot assigns Health, freedom, innocence, and downy peace, Her real goods; and only mocks the great, With empty pageantries! Elijah Fenton
Aristocrats n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts. Ambrose Bierce
downy milkweed seeds Source: Internet