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foldy

adjective

foldy is an adjective meaning “Having or characterized by folds” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-L-D-Y, and it appears about once in every 58 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does foldy mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    informalHaving or characterized by folds.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of foldy

  • more foldy comparative
  • most foldy superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is foldy?

Foldy appears about once in every 58 million words in written English, the 237,177th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does foldy come from?

From fold + -y.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).