Resembling cotton in appearance or texture; soft, fluffy, and light.
Cotton (from Arabic qutun) + -y suffix (making adjectives from nouns). The -y suffix is one of English's most productive, turning nouns into descriptive adjectives.
The -y suffix is so productive in English that we can add it to almost anything to describe its quality—'cloudy' from clouds, 'snowy' from snow, 'rainy' from rain—it's one of the easiest ways English builds new adjectives.
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