Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Consisting of, resembling, or containing strings or a string.
- adjective Slender and sinewy; wiry.
- adjective Forming strings, as a viscous liquid; ropy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous.
- adjective Capable of being drawn into a string, as a glutinous substance; ropy; viscid; gluely.
- adjective (Bot.) a name given in Australia to several trees of the genus Eucalyptus (as
E. amygdalina, obliqua, capitellata, macrorhyncha, piperita, pilularis, and tetradonta ), which have a fibrous bark used by the aborigines for making cordage and cloth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Comprised of, or resembling,
string or strings.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lean and sinewy
- adjective (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew
- adjective consisting of or containing string or strings
- adjective forming viscous or glutinous threads
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Examples
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Cabbage has always been there: pale and limp when boiled with corned beef or in stringy nest of tangy sauerkraut.
How I love you, mon petit chou Sarah Lenz 2008
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Cabbage has always been there: pale and limp when boiled with corned beef or in stringy nest of tangy sauerkraut.
Archive 2008-09-01 Sarah Lenz 2008
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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 2003
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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 John Oxley 1804
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She had little color, and her black hair was "stringy" -- which she hated!
The Corner House Girls at School Grace Brooks Hill 1917
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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 Thomas Wallace Knox 1865
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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.
Yeast we forget! 2006
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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.
Archive 2006-11-01 2006
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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.
Cooking with Lentils 2006
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Soon he delivered them plates of frijoles, some kind of stringy meat, and corn tortillas.
Deuces Wild Dusty Richards 2004
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