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crackery

crackery adjective: resembling or characteristic of crackers.

Adjective

crackery (comparative more crackery, superlative most crackery)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of crackers.
    • CRACKERS / Is rather a dry subject, but when they dissolve between your lips, they have a pronounced crackery taste, a fresh wheaty flavor.1894 September 25, A. D. Cooper, “Crackers”, in Asheville Daily Citizen, volume X, number 122, Asheville, N.C., front page, column 2
    • Hawaii is the island to get Saloon Pilot Crackers, made by the Hilo Macaroni Co. They’re four inches in diameter and have a crackery taste all their own.1975 October 5, Connie Sherley, “Travel Notes”, in The Austin American-Statesman, volume 51, number 91, Austin, Tex., page D13, column 1

Examples of crackery in a sentence

  • The thinner each one is, the more nutlike and crackery it tastes.)1978 September 3, David Haenke, “The chapati is an Indian cousin of the tortilla”, in Minneapolis Tribune, volume CXII, number 87...
  • On the other hand, the Thins, as the package claimed, have a “crackery” taste.1997 May 22, Lorrie Guttman, “‘Pretzel experience’?”, in Tallahassee Democrat, Tallahassee, Fla., page 1D:
  • Molten cheddar inside a crackery dough—kind of like a crispy ravioli.2006, Michael Ruhlman, The Reach of a Chef: Professional Cooks in the Age of Celebrity, Viking, →ISBN:
  • The flatbreads can be sliced easily with a pizza cutter when they’re pita consistency; if yours are more crackery, beware of many crumbs.2015, Shanna Mallon, Tim Mallon, “Appetizers”, in The Einkorn Cookbook: Discover the World’s Purest and Most Ancient Form of Wheat, Fair...

Forms of crackery

comparativemore crackery
superlativemost crackery
alternative formcracker-y

Origin of crackery

From cracker + -y.

Words formed from crackery

Phrases with crackery

Questions about crackery

What does crackery mean?
Crackery means resembling or characteristic of crackers.
How do you use crackery in a sentence?
The thinner each one is, the more nutlike and crackery it tastes.)
What part of speech is crackery?
Crackery is an adjective.

Words near crackery in the dictionary

  1. crackerjacks
  2. crackerless
  3. crackerlike
  4. crackermeal
  5. crackers
  6. crackery
  7. crackes
  8. crackest
  9. cracketh
  10. crackfic
  11. crackfics

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