troughy

English

Etymology

trough +‎ -y

Adjective

troughy (comparative more troughy, superlative most troughy)

1. Having troughs (long narrow depressions between waves).
   • 1850, W. H. Sadler, Miscellaneous Poems, Historical and Descriptive, page 15:

     Wall'd around with driving foam, / Reels she in the troughy brine; […]

   • 1862, William Martin, Peter Parley's Annual, page 141:

     […] they tumbled and rolled over them, much after the manner of two ships in a rough, bobbing, and troughy sea, till at last one came down sprawling with the other above him.