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chewing-gummy

chewing-gummy adjective: resembling or characteristic of chewing gum.

Adjective

chewing-gummy (comparative more chewing-gummy, superlative most chewing-gummy)

  1. (rare) Resembling or characteristic of chewing gum.
    • “I’d thought of dropping that. It’s so cheap and chewing-gummy.”1914, Samuel Hopkins Adams, The Clarion, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, page 104
    • But if ash is plastic, sort of “chewing-gummy,” as it contacts the hot surface—chances are it will stay there.1960 April, R C Bellas, “Industry’s battle with fuel ash”, in Power, volume 104, number 4, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, Inc, page 84
  2. (rare) Covered with chewing gum.
    • As I was squeezing out the subway car at Times Square, my red Papagallo slipped off my foot and the subway doors closed. I hopped around on the chewing-gummy platform, waving my arms at the crowd inside the car.1995, Nancy Lyon, Scatter the Mud: A Traveller’s Medley, Montreal, Que.: Nuage Editions, →ISBN, page 24
    • Throughout his toddlerhood Charlie dragged it along like Linus in Peanuts; towed it through muddy farmyards and chewing-gummy streets.2012, Charity Norman, After the Fall, London: Allen & Unwin, published 2013, →ISBN, page 47

Examples of chewing-gummy in a sentence

  • Bending my head, I worked to extricate my fork from a long chewing-gummy strand of Mozzarella cheese.1967, Sue Kaufman, Diary of a Mad Housewife, New York, N.Y.: Random House, page 66:
  • He breathed chewing-gummy breaths over Christopher, and Christopher liked him very much.1973, Prudence Andrew, Mister O’Brien, Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson Inc., →ISBN, page 87:
  • ‘This is very difficult to eat!’ Gran smacked at the straggling threads of chewing-gummy cheese connecting her mouth to the wobbly triangle of ham-and-pineapple.2000, Pamela Scobie, Chasing Faces, Oxford, Oxon: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 90:
  • It was hard enough to explain in words a skill that came so naturally to Jimmy, without having some glaiket doolally lassie breathing her chewing-gummy, nicotine breath all over him.2003, Catherine Forde, Fat Boy Swim, London: Egmont Books Limited, →ISBN, page 164:

Forms of chewing-gummy

comparativemore chewing-gummy
superlativemost chewing-gummy

Origin of chewing-gummy

From chewing gum + -y.

Questions about chewing-gummy

What does chewing-gummy mean?
Chewing-gummy means resembling or characteristic of chewing gum.
How do you use chewing-gummy in a sentence?
Bending my head, I worked to extricate my fork from a long chewing-gummy strand of Mozzarella cheese.
What part of speech is chewing-gummy?
Chewing-gummy is an adjective.

Words near chewing-gummy in the dictionary

  1. chewing up and spitting out
  2. chewing-ball
  3. chewing-balls
  4. chewing-gum
  5. chewing-gumless
  6. chewing-gummy
  7. chewing-gums
  8. chewingly
  9. chewings
  10. chewink
  11. chewinks

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