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bandboxy

bandboxy adjective: resembling a bandbox.

Adjective

bandboxy (comparative more bandboxy, superlative most bandboxy)

  1. Resembling a bandbox.
    • The alforjas, or saddle-bags, of the guide were strengthened by a stock of cold provisions, the leathern bota hanging beside it was filled with ripe Granada wine; and now behold me ambling over the Vega, accoutred in a gay Andalusian jacket, a sash woven by Mateo Ximenes, and one of those bandboxy...1854 (date written), Bayard Taylor, “The Bridle-Roads of Andalusia”, in The Lands of the Saracen; or, Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam &...
    • Fancy Archie Holden, after having all the Rocky Mountains for his workshop, coming back and settling down into one of these bandboxy little towns!1902, Anna Chapin Ray, Phebe, Her Profession

Forms of bandboxy

comparativemore bandboxy
superlativemost bandboxy

Origin of bandboxy

From bandbox + -y.

Questions about bandboxy

What does bandboxy mean?
Bandboxy means resembling a bandbox.
What part of speech is bandboxy?
Bandboxy is an adjective.

Words near bandboxy in the dictionary

  1. bandavirus
  2. bandaviruses
  3. bandbox
  4. bandboxes
  5. bandboxical
  6. bandboxy
  7. bandbrake
  8. bandcenter
  9. bandcenters
  10. banddom
  11. bandeau

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