Word.ws English Dictionary

pruney

pruney is the alternative form of pruny.

Meaning of pruny

Adjective

pruny (comparative more pruny, superlative most pruny)

  1. (informal) (Of skin) wrinkled, especially in reference to the rugosity of digits soaked in water.
    • The schoolmarm came to an abrupt stop in her arithmetic quizzing, her face set into a pruny scowl that looked to be permanent.2013, Josh Rountree, Lon Prater, Alamo Rising
    Synonyms:
    bewrinkled
  2. Resembling prunes, prune-like.
    • It has a pruney flavor.
  3. Of, or pertaining to, prunes.
    • full of pruney goodness

Forms of pruney

comparativemore pruney
superlativemost pruney

Questions about pruney

What is pruney the alternative form of?
Pruney is the alternative form of pruny.

Words near pruney in the dictionary

  1. pruner
  2. pruners
  3. prunes
  4. prunetin
  5. prunetol
  6. pruney
  7. Prunier
  8. Pruniers
  9. pruniferous
  10. pruniform
  11. prunin

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pruney (page history and authors); pruny (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “pruney.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pruney. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.