a. [f. SUNSHINE sb. + -Y1.]
1. Full of or characterized by sunshine: = SUNNY a. 1.
1649. N. Hardy, Div. Prosp. (1654), 15. The wettest Seed-time of a pious Life, shall end in the sun-shiny harvest of a peacefull Death.
1665. Boyle, Occas. Refl. (1848), 67. In the Sunshiny months of Summer.
1713. Derham, Phys.-Theol., X. (1798), II. 363, note. In warm, sun-shiny weather.
1809. Malkin, Gil Blas, III. ii. ¶ 6. I feel disposed … to set out some sunshiny morning for the mountains.
1849. H. Miller, Footpr. Creat., i. (1874), 8. The long, clear, sunshiny evenings of the Orkney summer. Ibid. (1854), Sch. & Schm., xiv. (1858), 305. A bright sunshiny sky.
1888. Doughty, Trav. Arabia Deserta, I. 542. Every morrow the sun-shiny heat calls them abroad to the easy … labour of their simple lives.
2. Illumined by sunshine: = SUNNY a. 2.
1600. Fairfax, Tasso, XVI. ix. Sunshinie hils, dales hid from Phœbus raies.
1802. Wordsw., Stanzas in Copy Cast. Indol., 26. Retired in that sunshiny shade he lay.
1803. W. Taylor, in Monthly Mag., XIV. 487. I shut my eyes, and call up the idea of a sunshiny landscape.
1880. Disraeli, Endym., xlviii. It did not yet occur to Endymion that his garden could not always be sunshiny.
3. Bright as with sunshine: = SUNNY a. 4.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., I. viii. 20. The fruitfull-headed beast, amaz’d At flashing beames of that sunshiny shield, Became starke blind. Ibid., xii. 23. The … glorious light of her sunshyny face.
1824. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. I. (1863), 113. The house had still within and without the same sunshiny cleanliness.
1841. Browning, Pippa Passes, III. 282. If you killed one Of those sunshiny beetles.
1862. Miss Braddon, Lady Audley, iii. Her beautiful smile, and sunshiny ringlets!
4. fig. ‘Bright,’ joyous: = SUNNY a. 5.
1782. Mrs. H. Cowley, Bold Stroke for Husband, II. ii. My dear gloomy cousin, where have you purchased that sun-shiny look?
1820. Coleridge, Lett., Convers., etc., I. vi. 27. I hope that this is a sunshiny spot in the national character.
1857. Dufferin, Lett. High Lat., vi. (ed. 3), 39. His … daughter—a sunshiny young lady of eighteen.
1862. A. K. H. Boyd, Graver Thoughts Country Parson, i. 5. You remember the sunshiny evenings, so calm and bright. Ibid., viii. 125–6. Childhood looks sunshiny when we cast back our glance upon it.
1893. C. G. Leland, Mem., I. 71. A very pleasant and wonderfully polite and sunshiny boy.
