Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Consisting of, resembling, or containing strings or a string.
- adj. Slender and sinewy; wiry.
- adj. Forming strings, as a viscous liquid; ropy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Consisting of strings or small threads; fibrous; filamentous: as, a stringy root.
- Ropy; viscid; gluey; that may be drawn into a thread.
- Sinewy; wiry.
- Marked by thread-like flaws on the surface: as, stringy glass; stringy marble.
- Said of cotton that is imperfectly scutched.
Wiktionary
- adj. Comprised of, or resembling, string or strings.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous.
- adj. Capable of being drawn into a string, as a glutinous substance; ropy; viscid; gluely.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. lean and sinewy
- adj. (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew
- adj. consisting of or containing string or strings
- adj. forming viscous or glutinous threads
Examples
“Cabbage has always been there: pale and limp when boiled with corned beef or in stringy nest of tangy sauerkraut.”
“The timber chiefly box, with some few trees of another species of eucalyptus called stringy bark, and cypress.”
Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales
“She had little color, and her black hair was "stringy" -- which she hated!”
“One tree is called the stringy bark, on account of the ragged appearance of its covering at the time it is shed.”
The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent
“I don't much like kneading myself - and I've convinced myself that when I mix my final dough (in a standup KA), if I allow it to reach the "stringy" stage, where the glutin is obviously developing, and then let it continue for 10 mins or so, it won't need any further kneading.”
“The soup has great color, but the lentils will fall apart and the smooshed garlic does look kind of stringy, so it's not the prettiest soup in the world.”
“Soon he delivered them plates of frijoles, some kind of stringy meat, and corn tortillas.”
“Snapping his eyes open, he saw four figures standing over him: a black man in a fatigue jacket with E-6 sergeant's stripes on the sleeve, two white men, and a woman wearing a floppy hat over "stringy" blond hair.”
“Solomon John had brought in his supply of candles; but they proved to be very "stringy" and very few of them.”
“The palm-tree (or abba, as it is called here) produces a long scarlet or reddish brown cone, which separates into beads, each of which contains a roasting-nut surrounded by a kind of stringy husk, which being boiled in salt and water, upon being chewed has a taste of artichoke, but the consistence is very disagreeable.”
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Old words
Old words: modern English words that are old according to criteria that are still vague: Either words common to several old languages or words substantially similar in old English. Please add to or...
mother, father, bark, spit, old, fire, this, that, black, thou, to give, hand and 259 more...
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Describing the Taste of Foods
yummy, zesty, piquant, pungent, sharp, spicy, poignant, delicious, ambrosial, appetizing, delectable, heavenly and 194 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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Old English Spelling Bee List
need to know these words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
quell, bower, keen, alderman, cleanser, sallow, gristle, nestle, abide, gospel, nether, farthing and 84 more...
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