bambooey
/bæmˈbuːi/
bambooey adjective: resembling or characteristic of bamboo.
Adjective
bambooey (comparative more bambooey, superlative most bambooey)
- Resembling or characteristic of bamboo.
- Old Percy, with fixed, mad blue eye and a rusty scythe, was attacking the "Japanese creeper" bambooey plant which had shot up green in the alley by the drive.1982 (published), Sylvia Plath, journal entry - May 15 1962
- There were rows and rows of shelves of books from the floor to the ceiling that came out between the windows and in the gloomy bit at the end of each row they'd put a bambooey-looking table with a jungly green plant […]1990, Ray Salisbury, Sweet Thursday
Forms of bambooey
| comparative | more bambooey |
|---|---|
| superlative | most bambooey |
Origin of bambooey
From bamboo + -ey.
Words that rhyme with bambooey
Questions about bambooey
- What does bambooey mean?
- Bambooey means resembling or characteristic of bamboo.
- What part of speech is bambooey?
- Bambooey is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce bambooey?
- Bambooey is pronounced /bæmˈbuːi/.
Words near bambooey in the dictionary
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