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French-toasty

French-toasty adjective: resembling or characteristic of French toast.

Adjective

French-toasty (comparative more French-toasty, superlative most French-toasty)

  1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of French toast.
    • When a bunch comes for brunch or if you are only out to please your family on weekend mornings, try your hand at making Japanese Mandarin Orange Toasties, a delicious French-toasty kind of recipe that goes Oriental with a few new ingredients.1970 February 19, “A Tasty Recipe That Goes Oriental”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume 102, number 209, Alanta, Ga., page 10-F
    • If you don’t like omelets (the menu offers a choice of fillings), and aren’t interested in the French-toasty sandwich, a final choice is chicken salad.1976 May 9, Elaine Tait, “Grendel’s Too for Brunch”, in Today (The Philadelphia Inquirer), page 24

Examples of French-toasty in a sentence

  • Obsessively perky Alex Klickstein, as the French-toasty tart Fifi, does a blend of the hora and the can-can, rolling on the laps of stunned spectators.1989 May 26, Bill Marx, “Warped Web: Boston Baked Theatre get tied to the tracks”, in The Boston Phoenix, section three, page 22:
  • The French toast bagel here didn’t seem especially French-toasty, but Dobbs was almost dizzy with desire.2012 July 20, Peter Genovese, “Chewing over the choices: Munchers search for Jersey's best bagels”, in NJ.com, archived from the original...
  • The egg-dipped, grilled, French-toasty but also savory sort of sandwich might make folks of a certain age nostalgic for the Garden Court restaurant at Liberty House, where the sandwich was popular.2014 February 5, Erika Engle, “Kissaten starts up strong in Waterfront Plaza spot”, in Honolulu Star-Advertiser, 133rd year, number 5, page...
  • Your leftover Passover matzo has a new home, and it’s in this “French-toasty” delicious dish!2016, Simone Miller, Jennifer Robins, The New Yiddish Kitchen: Gluten-Free and Paleo Kosher Recipes for the Holidays and Every Day, Page...

Forms of French-toasty

comparativemore French-toasty
superlativemost French-toasty
alternative formFrench toasty

Origin of French-toasty

From French toast + -y.

Questions about French-toasty

What does French-toasty mean?
French-toasty means resembling or characteristic of French toast.
How do you use French-toasty in a sentence?
Obsessively perky Alex Klickstein, as the French-toasty tart Fifi, does a blend of the hora and the can-can, rolling on the laps of stunned spectators.
What part of speech is French-toasty?
French-toasty is an adjective.

Words near French-toasty in the dictionary

  1. french-polish
  2. french-polished
  3. french-polishes
  4. french-polishing
  5. French-Provençal
  6. French-toasty
  7. Frenchay
  8. Frenchburg
  9. Frenchcore
  10. frenched
  11. Frencher

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