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cucumbery

cucumbery adjective: resembling cucumber.

Adjective

cucumbery (comparative more cucumbery, superlative most cucumbery)

  1. resembling cucumber
    • She cut the frilly shamrock leaves of the burnet off the stems, minced the tiny pile with a butcher knife, then stirred their green flecks mightily into the bowl of dip, the better to have the catered-to ask, "Ooh, what gives it that cucumbery taste?"1999, Ivan Doig, Mountain Time

Forms of cucumbery

comparativemore cucumbery
superlativemost cucumbery

Origin of cucumbery

From cucumber + -y.

Questions about cucumbery

What does cucumbery mean?
Cucumbery means resembling cucumber.
What part of speech is cucumbery?
Cucumbery is an adjective.

Words near cucumbery in the dictionary

  1. cucumbers
  2. cucumbertini
  3. cucumbertinis
  4. cucumbertree
  5. cucumbertrees
  6. cucumbery
  7. cucumeriform
  8. cucumiform
  9. cucumisin
  10. cucumopine
  11. cucumoviral

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