Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Full of bergs or icebergs.
  • Resembling or of the nature of a berg.

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Examples

  • If bergy boy is such a big man, why doesn't he ever post here?!

    Berg alert David 2007

  • Now, if chickenhawk denny and his pal bergy want to get their knickers in a knot over sumthin ', WHY NOT THIS?

    Those flag-draped coffins David 2006

  • A huge piece had sheered off and a dozen or so smaller "bergy bits" were in the water alongside it.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • About two hundred yards out here in the ice jumble, beyond a last pressure ridge he'd just stumbled and clambered over — he could hear the thing leaping it less than ten yards behind him — he remembered a maze of former bergy bits, small icebergs calved from their larger brethren, upended into a tiny mountain range of cottage-sized ice boulders.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • Dodging the last of the tall seracs, Blanky was into the bergy labyrinth.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • And even if he miraculously crawled out of the bergy field, the three hundred yards to the ship was an impossible distance.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • He knew at a glance which bergy bits were a threat to the ship and which could be taken head-on.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • On the 12th we sailed over the position of the ice-tongue in 1912 without seeing a trace of it, coming up with heavy broken floe at 10 A.M. For four hours the 'Aurora' pushed through massive floes and "bergy bits," issuing into open water with the blink of ice-covered land to the south.

    The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920

  • Fergie does it all the time with players thx dennis at least thats good news. as long as he doesnt get injured there again; / bergy - i have no doubt whatsoever he'll come back from international duty with an aggravated injury and will subsequently miss two weeks plus … … … kind weirdof seeing patrick sitting next to sylvestre

    WordPress.com News 2008

  • “So with the moving ice, Sir John and your honours, we ain't had much problem with the brash ice and thicker drift ice, and the bergy bits — them little bergs what broke off from the real bergs — we been able to avoid them because of the wide leads and open water we've been able to find.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

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