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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of equal growth or size; coming up regularly in the rows, as potatoes.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Prev. Eng. Sprouting or coming up freely and regularly.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective informal Involving the shooting of weapons.
  • adjective UK, dialect Sprouting or coming up freely and regularly.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

shoot +‎ -y

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