callusy
callusy adjective: featuring or relating to a callus or calluses.
Adjective
callusy (comparative more callusy, superlative most callusy)
- Featuring or relating to a callus or calluses.
- callusy hands
- A few days before, I snicked my forefinger with the curved banana knife at the store, and a callusy scab toughened the ball of my fingertip.1961, John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent, Penguin Books, published 2008, →ISBN
- Resembling a callus or calluses (but different).
- callusy tumors
Examples of callusy in a sentence
- Her eyes radiated the gentlest strength I had ever experienced, her tough, hot, callusy hands supported me with the full intensity of her life.1991, Mary Gaitskill, Two Girls, Fat and Thin, Simon & Schuster, published 1998, →ISBN, page 187:
- I don't look at him, or even hear him anymore, but then I feel his big callusy hand on my wrist and my stomach somersaults and my breath rushes back into my mouth.2011, Megan Abbott, The End of Everything, Reagan Arthur Books, →ISBN:
Synonyms of callusy
Forms of callusy
| comparative | more callusy |
|---|---|
| superlative | most callusy |
Origin of callusy
From callus + -y.
Questions about callusy
- What does callusy mean?
- Callusy means featuring or relating to a callus or calluses.
- How do you use callusy in a sentence?
- Her eyes radiated the gentlest strength I had ever experienced, her tough, hot, callusy hands supported me with the full intensity of her life.
- What part of speech is callusy?
- Callusy is an adjective.
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