blottery

blottery adjective: resembling blotting paper.

Adjective

blottery (comparative more blottery, superlative most blottery)

Resembling blotting paper.
- When I realized that that wretched little tin can was all that stood between me and the world, his wife and his family, there was an acute palpitation around the heart, and a dry blottery feeling in the mouth.1922 November, Leon Alfred Duthernoy, “Singing to Tens of Thousands: Impressions of an Artist During His First Radio Concert”, in Radio Broadcast, volume 2, number 1, page 49
- Mark, a cheeping chorister of our schooldays, has retained, despite the blottery tenor that has displaced his treble, a habit of uttering with the suddenness of a ship’s siren, the less interesting of [Franz] Schubert's ditties.1928, Robert Byron, “Visiting”, in The Station: Athos: Treasures and Men, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC, page 86

The announcements were pale green and on paper of a blottery texture which harbored no errors in folding.1950, Betty Macdonald, chapter 14, in Anybody Can Do Anything, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, page 185:
Dense, blottery blackness except for the random, stabbing beams of headlights far down in the street below […]1974, Sue Kaufman, “Lights Out”, in Falling Bodies, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, page 244:

comparative	more blottery
superlative	most blottery

From blotter + -y.

What does blottery mean?: Blottery means resembling blotting paper.
How do you use blottery in a sentence?: The announcements were pale green and on paper of a blottery texture which harbored no errors in folding.
What part of speech is blottery?: Blottery is an adjective.

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