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marshmallowiest

marshmallowiest is the superlative form of marshmallowy.

Meaning of marshmallowy

Adjective

marshmallowy (comparative marshmallowier, superlative marshmallowiest)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a marshmallow.
    • An ice-cube crusher for $1, a cake slicer, something like a miniature rake, to cut smoothly through the marshmallowiest frosting without a leak, for $1, […] were just a few I put on my list.1933 April 23, Katharine Blank, “Busy Housewife Finds Gadgets Galore for Spring Bride’s Kitchen Shower […]”, in Brooklyn Times Union, Long Island edition, 86th year, Brooklyn, N.Y., →OCLC, page 10...
    1. Soft and fluffy.
  2. Tending to be a pushover; overly accommodating.
    • “It changed Gable from a heavy to a comedian in It Happened One Night. It changed Jean Arthur from a marshmallowy ingenue to a hard-boiled wise- cracker in The Whole Town's Talking.”2002, Elizabeth Kendall, The Runaway Bride: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930s, Cooper Square Press, →ISBN, page 187
  3. Vacuous.
    • The spirit of Oprah is haunting yet another session of Sex Week. Once again, a basically tawdry event has come packaged in all kinds of marshmallowy language about self-understanding and self-acceptance.2012, Nathan Harden, Sex and God at Yale, →ISBN, page 177

Questions about marshmallowiest

What is marshmallowiest the superlative form of?
Marshmallowiest is the superlative form of marshmallowy.

Words near marshmallowiest in the dictionary

  1. marshmallow crème
  2. marshmallow crèmes
  3. marshmallow fluff
  4. marshmallowed
  5. marshmallowier
  6. marshmallowiest
  7. marshmallowiness
  8. marshmallowing
  9. marshmallows
  10. marshmallowy
  11. marshman

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