dewy

Etymology

From Middle English dewy, deuhy, from Old English dēawiġ, from Old English dēaw. Equivalent to dew + y.

adj

1. Covered by dew.
   The dewy grass was too slick for football.
2. Having the quality of bearing droplets of water.
   In the dewy fog, it was cold and damp.
   At midnight, in the month of June, / I stand beneath the mystic moon. / An opiate vapor, dewy, dim, / Exhales from out her golden rim 1831, Edgar Allan Poe, The Sleeper
3. Fresh and innocent.
   1814, 16 March, Percy Bysshe Shelley letter to Hogg, Thy Gentle Face Thy dewy looks sink in my breast Thy gentle words stir poison there;
   Simplicity in life, simplicity in art, and a dewy freshness over all. 2009, Bernfried Nugel, Jerome Meckier, Aldous Huxley Annual, page 23