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lettucey

lettucey adjective: resembling or characteristic of lettuce.

Adjective

lettucey (comparative more lettucey, superlative most lettucey)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of lettuce.
    • She read a bit in some evening paper about proper dieting, and she's gone all lettucey.1937, Georgette Heyer, The unfinished clue, page 6
    • The flowers and weeds around him have coarsened with new growth, and the trees have a fresh lettucey look — how absurd, how delightful that growth should continue even in the month of December.1987, Carol Shields, Swann: a mystery, page 118
    Synonyms:
    lettucelike

Synonyms of lettucey

Forms of lettucey

comparativemore lettucey
superlativemost lettucey
alternative formlettucy

Origin of lettucey

From lettuce + -y.

Questions about lettucey

What does lettucey mean?
Lettucey means resembling or characteristic of lettuce.
What part of speech is lettucey?
Lettucey is an adjective.

Words near lettucey in the dictionary

  1. lettuce-bird
  2. lettuce-birds
  3. lettuceless
  4. lettucelike
  5. lettuces
  6. lettucey
  7. lettucy
  8. letty
  9. letup
  10. letups
  11. Letzeburgesh

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