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mattressy

mattressy adjective: resembling or characteristic of a mattress; large, soft, and yielding.

Adjective

mattressy (comparative more mattressy, superlative most mattressy)

  1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a mattress; large, soft, and yielding.
    • “You try it Mister, and so help me God I will make sure you spend the rest of your non-adult life bouncing off the mattressy walls of a psych ward.”2008, James Slater, Like Phosphorescent Desert Buttons, page 98

Forms of mattressy

comparativemore mattressy
superlativemost mattressy

Origin of mattressy

From mattress + -y.

Questions about mattressy

What does mattressy mean?
Mattressy means resembling or characteristic of a mattress; large, soft, and yielding.
What part of speech is mattressy?
Mattressy is an adjective.

Words near mattressy in the dictionary

  1. mattressed
  2. mattresses
  3. mattressing
  4. mattressless
  5. mattresslike
  6. mattressy
  7. matts
  8. Mattses
  9. Mattson
  10. Mattsons
  11. Mattstetten

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