a. [f. as prec. + -Y1.]
1. Covered with or abounding in broom.
1649. Blithe, Eng. Improv. Impr. (1653), 132. All coarse barren Heaths, Lingy, Broomy Lands.
1679. Plot, Staffordsh. (1686), 110. This heathy, broomy, gorsy, barren sort of Soile.
1790. Burns, Let. Mrs. Dunlop, Nov. The broomy banks of Nith.
1852. D. Moir, Glen of Roslin, iii. 169. Each broomy vale bequeaths Some old heroic tale.
† 2. Of or pertaining to a broom or besom. rare.
1709. Swift, Morning, in Tatler, No. 9, ¶ 1. The Youth with broomy Stumps began to trace The Kennel Edge.
3. Broom-like. Cf. bushy. rare.
1807. Vancouver, Agric. Devon (1813), 253. Its leading shoot appears to have spread into a small broomy top.