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cornmealy

cornmealy adjective: resembling or characteristic of cornmeal.

Adjective

cornmealy (comparative more cornmealy, superlative most cornmealy)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of cornmeal.
    • She slid a glance with a trace of longing at my one remaining hush puppy. I forked it into my mouth and chewed it down, letting the pleasure of its cornmealy goodness show on my face.2016, Anna Castle, Flash Memory (Lost Hat, Texas; 2), →ISBN
  2. With cornmeal.
    • Cleaning steamers sucks. You have to put them in great vats of water with cornmeal and let them sit. […] I pulled my hands out of the cornmealy water, dried them on my apron and said to my mother that I was taking a little break.1985, Sandra Scoppettone, Playing Murder, New York, N.Y.: Harper Keypoint, published 1987, →ISBN, pages 119 and 121
    • “Tamales. Just unpeel ’em out of the husk. There’s napkins on top.” They were hot and cornmealy and full of meat.1994, Donald McCaig, Nop’s Hope, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 24

Forms of cornmealy

comparativemore cornmealy
superlativemost cornmealy

Origin of cornmealy

From cornmeal + -y.

Questions about cornmealy

What does cornmealy mean?
Cornmealy means resembling or characteristic of cornmeal.
What part of speech is cornmealy?
Cornmealy is an adjective.

Words near cornmealy in the dictionary

  1. Cornmans
  2. cornmarket
  3. cornmarkets
  4. cornmeal
  5. cornmeals
  6. cornmealy
  7. cornmill
  8. cornmills
  9. cornmonger
  10. cornmongers
  11. cornmoth

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