The Meaning of buoy

• (n.) A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc.
• (v. t.) To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up.
• (v. t.) To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency.
• (v. t.) To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys; as, to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel.
• (v. i.) To float; to rise like a buoy.

Synonyms

buoy up

Homophones

booee , bouie , buie

Rhymes

bluey , booee , chewy , chop-suey , chopsuey , cooee , dewey , dewy , duey , ennui , ewy , fouhy , fukui , gluey , gooey , grenouille , hooey , huey , hughey , hughie , hughy , huie , kooi , kooy , krawccykiewi , lewey , louis , marui , matsui , neue , newey , olokuei , pewee , phooey , rattatouille , rewey , sansui , screwy , sekisui , shuey , shui , sooy , sourrouille , suey , sui , tuohy , uy , viewy