Adjective

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of a shore, having lots of breaking waves

*{{quote-book, year=1904, author=William Morris, title=The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Now again in the latter summer do those Kings of the Niblungs ride To chase the sons of the plunder that curse the ocean-side: So over the oaken rollers they run the cutters down Till fair in the first of the deep are the glittering bows up-thrown; But, shining wet and steel-clad, men leap from the surfy shore, And hang their shields on the gunwale, and cast abroad the oar; Then full to the outer ocean swing round the golden beaks, And Sigurd sits by the tiller and the host of the spoilers seeks. }}

characteristic of surf music

* {{quote-news, year=1993, date=September 3, author=Chris Dickinson, title=Singers to watch, work=Chicago Reader citation

, passage=All this is set to a driving backdrop of hard, slightly surfy , surprisingly powerful strumming. }}

* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=August 30, author=Ben Ratliff, title=Chanting, Jazzy, Beachy, Funky, Lonely Sounds, work=New York Times citation

, passage=They do a kind of surfy version of New Order, bright and clattery, a minimalist collision of the 1950s and the 1980s. }}