jeansy

• jeans-y

From jeans +‎ -y.

jeansy (comparative more jeansy, superlative most jeansy) (informal)

1. Resembling or characteristic of jeans.
   • 1989 January 17, Jan Macafee, “Fashion: A look at what’s new on the local fashion front”, in The Ann Arbor News, Ann Arbor, Mich., →OCLC, page D3, column 2:

     And, also on State Street, Off Limits, specializing in inexpensive, jeansy clothes opened in the space over Jason’s Sandwich and Ice Cream Cafe.

   • 1998 August 11, Belinda Morris, “Fashion: This is my fast-track suit”, in The Independent‎^[1], number 3,687, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 6 July 2022, page 9, column 2:

     And grey – in particular grey flannel, which in Episode Sport’s autumn collection takes on a soft yet durable, jeansy feel (with masculine overtones).

   • 2001 March 31, Susie Steiner, “Twice Shy”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian (Weekend section)‎^[2], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 October 2013, page 30, column 4:

     I can’t remember exactly what [Colin] Firth was wearing on that first meeting: something dark and jeansy, in a sort of sixth-form teacher way.

2. Wearing jeans.

   Synonym: jeaned

   • 1838 December 16, the Cincinnati Commercial, quotee, “Twelve Hours at the Wreck. A Visit to the Scene of the Ohio River Calamity. The Revelations of a Week.”, in Nashville Union and American, New Series, number 95, Nashville, Tenn.: J. O. Griffith & Co., →OCLC, front page, column 6:

     Along the yellow, frozen bank, twenty-five or thirty feet high, with its narrow sloping beach to the water, a jeansy string of rustics are squatting on their haunches, absorbing all the sunshine they can, and watching the dragging operations with stolid faces.

   • 1980 June 6, Chaplin & Chaplin, “Balmy nights go best with beer, baseball”, in The Sun, volume 287, number 18, Baltimore, Md., →ISSN, →OCLC, page B3, column 5:

     And the clientele was traditional too: some jeansy young folks playing pool and the electronic game, some polyestered older folks sitting quietly along the bar or at the red-check tables in the small room next to the bar.

   • 1980 September 19, Mabel Swift, “Her Herald”, in Coleshill Chronicle, number 5559, Coleshill, Warwickshire, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13, column 1:

     There are the tuneful ladies of the choir making their way along in two’s and three’s, and jeansy youngsters with their eye on the Royal Shakespeare Company turning up for auditions and rehearsals with the Drama Group.