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gumdroppy

gumdroppy adjective: resembling or characteristic of a gumdrop.

Adjective

gumdroppy (comparative more gumdroppy, superlative most gumdroppy)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a gumdrop.
    • I courted her with chocolate balls that changed hue as you sucked away layer after layer; licorice whips and shoelaces a yard long; red raspberries of a hard gumdroppy consistency, […]1945, The Reader's Digest, volume 47, page 102
    • Raindrops are raindroppy, not gumdroppy—more's the pity.2017, Imre Szeman, Dominic Boyer, Energy Humanities, page 364

Forms of gumdroppy

comparativemore gumdroppy
superlativemost gumdroppy

Origin of gumdroppy

From gumdrop + -y.

Questions about gumdroppy

What does gumdroppy mean?
Gumdroppy means resembling or characteristic of a gumdrop.
What part of speech is gumdroppy?
Gumdroppy is an adjective.

Words near gumdroppy in the dictionary

  1. gumchewing
  2. gumdigger
  3. gumdiggers
  4. gumdigging
  5. gumdrop
  6. gumdroppy
  7. gumdrops
  8. Gumenyuk
  9. Gumery
  10. gumfield
  11. gumfields

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