Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the qualities of whey; thin; watery.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Somewhat like whey; wheyey.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Resembling
whey .
Etymologies
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whey + -ish
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Examples
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She has no crime but luxury, nor any virtue but chastity; she has no desire to be praised but for her cookery; nor wishes any ill to the rest of mankind, but that whenever they aspire to a feast, their custards may be wheyish, and their pie-crusts tough.
The Rambler, sections 1-54 (1750); from The Works of Samuel Johnson, in Sixteen Volumes, Volume I 1750
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