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graham-crackery

graham-crackery adjective: with or made from graham crackers.

Adjective

graham-crackery (comparative more graham-crackery, superlative most graham-crackery)

  1. (informal) With or made from graham crackers.
    • Having dried her hands on the animal’s black fur, which only increased the meowing, Susie added her protest that breakfast had not yet been served, “Kit-nen hongry. Susie hongry too, bery hongry.” / “Yes, I know, we’re all hungry,” he agreed resignedly. / But resignation was not in Susie’s nature....1951 October, Hope Shelley Miller, “A Small Miracle”, in Ladies’ Home Journal, volume LXVIII, number 10, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Curtis Publishing Company, page 68, column 1
    • So we’ll just have to get along on canned apples and graham-crackery crusts at 65 cents per pie.1965 July 10, Win Mills, “No fees for bee’s knees”, in The Ottawa Citizen, 123rd year, number 842, Ottawa, Ont., page 4
  2. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of graham crackers.
    • Solid chocolate and peanut butter flavors are folded into a light, graham-crackery log.1977, Michael S. Lasky, “Cookies, Crackers, and Chips”, in The Complete Junk Food Book, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Book Company, →ISBN, page 250
    • Tent-area “paths”—thin concrete squares laid without fixative on bare earth—turned graham-crackery with rain and sank in the surrounding mud.1996 spring/summer, Robin Morgan, “The NGO Forum: Good News and Bad”, in Beijing and Beyond: Toward the Twenty-First Century of Women; […] (Women’s Studies Quarterly; volume XXIV, numbers 1 & 2), New...

Examples of graham-crackery in a sentence

  • “Boy not hongry!” She planted herself in front of the high chair, pointed an accusing finger at her brother’s contented graham-crackery face.1951 October, Hope Shelley Miller, “A Small Miracle”, in Ladies’ Home Journal, volume LXVIII, number 10, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Curtis...
  • Cheech is a starter in both basketball and volleyball and popular in both sports, at least in part because of Gram’s cookies—a rich, graham-crackery, chocolate-chip bar.1979 March 17, Elizabeth Wheeler, “Life on Road for UCLA Women”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif., part III, page 8:
  • The flavor-coated graham-crackery marshmallow sandwiches [Moon Pies] have inspired songs, a book and the Moon Pie Cultural Club based in Charlotte, N.C.1987 October 2, Doug Mason, “Bite a Moon Pie for taste of South”, in Detours (The Knoxville News-Sentinel), Knoxville, Tenn., page 8...
  • A graham-crackery base made Black Forest cake crunch, too.2006 September 22, Ed Murrieta, “Roll out the schnitzels”, in The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash., page 9:

Forms of graham-crackery

comparativemore graham-crackery
superlativemost graham-crackery
alternative formgraham crackery
alternative formgraham cracker-y
alternative formgraham-cracker-y

Origin of graham-crackery

From graham cracker + -y.

Questions about graham-crackery

What does graham-crackery mean?
Graham-crackery means with or made from graham crackers.
How do you use graham-crackery in a sentence?
“Boy not hongry!” She planted herself in front of the high chair, pointed an accusing finger at her brother’s contented graham-crackery face.
What part of speech is graham-crackery?
Graham-crackery is an adjective.

Words near graham-crackery in the dictionary

  1. Graham Land
  2. Graham technique
  3. Graham's number
  4. Graham's tilapia
  5. graham-cracker-y
  6. graham-crackery
  7. Graham-Little syndrome
  8. Graham-Little-Piccardi-Lassueur syndrome
  9. Grahame
  10. Grahamesque
  11. Grahamian

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