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biteyness

biteyness noun: the quality of being bitey.

Noun

biteyness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being bitey.
    • “Exactly how hungry are you? Should I give in to my biteyness so that you can fill up, or can it wait until we can find somewhere more private than the side of the road next to a haunted forest?”2012, Katie MacAlister, A Tale of Two Vampires (Dark Ones), Signet, New American Library, →ISBN, page 199
    • For instance, Susie’s parents might help her to de-fuse the word “cat” from those properties of scratchiness and “biteyness” by making nonsense rhymes with the word cat, singing songs about cats, rhyming the word “cat,” making artwork based on the word “cat,” and so on.2016, David A. Carbonell, The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It, New Harbinger Publications, →ISBN

Origin of biteyness

From bitey + -ness.

Questions about biteyness

What does biteyness mean?
Biteyness means the quality of being bitey.
What part of speech is biteyness?
Biteyness is a noun.

Words near biteyness in the dictionary

  1. bitewing
  2. bitewings
  3. bitext
  4. bitexts
  5. bitey
  6. biteyness
  7. bitfield
  8. bitfields
  9. bitfilter
  10. bitfilters
  11. bitflag

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