ginghamy

/ˈɡɪŋəmi/

ginghamy adjective: typical of or made of gingham; characterized by the homeyness, wholesomeness, etc. associated with gingham.

Adjective

ginghamy (not comparable)

Typical of or made of gingham; characterized by the homeyness, wholesomeness, etc. associated with gingham.
- She first showed you a deliciously dewy and ginghamy country girl with a basket of property daisies […]1910, O. Henry, “Strictly Business”, in Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million, page 6
- It must be a real adventure to see Hempfield on a sunny morning with a new eye, to pass Henderson’s drygoods store and catch the ginghamy whiff from the open doorway […]1915, Ray Stannard Baker (as David Grayson), chapter 5, in Hempfield, page 75

We had a doll’s house to ourselves, fresh and ginghamy, and nationally advertised twin beds, fat as muffins.1961, John Steinbeck, chapter 18, in The Winter of Our Discontent, page 238:
She wore a patched skirt over about a dozen cotton petticoats, not so different from her Toulouse-Lautrec outfit but more ginghamy.2001, Elizabeth McCracken, Niagara Falls All Over Again, page 229:

From gingham + -y.

What does ginghamy mean?: Ginghamy means typical of or made of gingham; characterized by the homeyness, wholesomeness, etc. associated with gingham.
How do you use ginghamy in a sentence?: We had a doll’s house to ourselves, fresh and ginghamy, and nationally advertised twin beds, fat as muffins.
What part of speech is ginghamy?: Ginghamy is an adjective.
How do you pronounce ginghamy?: Ginghamy is pronounced /ˈɡɪŋəmi/.

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