a. [f. SURF sb. + -Y.] Abounding in surf; consisting of or resembling surf.

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a. 1814.  Apostate, II. iv. in New Brit. Theatre, III. 320. The surfy shore.

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1824.  New Monthly Mag., X. 501. The surfy billows broke across the bow.

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1878.  Stevenson, Edinburgh (1889), 164. When the gulls desert their surfy forelands.

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1889.  Ruskin, Præterita, III. iv. 156. The countless ranks of surfy breakers.

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