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chestnutty

chestnutty adjective: resembling or characteristic of a chestnut.

Adjective

chestnutty (comparative more chestnutty, superlative most chestnutty)

  1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a chestnut.
    • Being in the shell like that, the salt wouldn't get through that shell enough to spoil them, and they'd have that nice sweet chestnutty taste.1996, Eliot Wigginton, A foxfire Christmas

Forms of chestnutty

comparativemore chestnutty
superlativemost chestnutty

Origin of chestnutty

From chestnut + -y.

Questions about chestnutty

What does chestnutty mean?
Chestnutty means resembling or characteristic of a chestnut.
What part of speech is chestnutty?
Chestnutty is an adjective.

Words near chestnutty in the dictionary

  1. chestnut-tailed starlings
  2. chestnutlike
  3. chestnuts
  4. Chestnutt
  5. Chestnutts
  6. chestnutty
  7. chestpad
  8. chestpads
  9. chestpiece
  10. chestpieces
  11. chestplate

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