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quichey

quichey adjective: resembling or characteristic of quiche.

Adjective

quichey (comparative more quichey, superlative most quichey)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of quiche.
    • All afternoon they have been coming in, one apiece for everybody, with the fried chicken, baked ham, and quichey dishes from the Junior League Cookbook.1983, Alma Stone, Now for the Turbulence, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 187
    • • dill is another quichey spice, and either parsley or cilantro makes a tasty addition1994, Alan S. Kesselheim, The Lightweight Gourmet: Drying and Cooking Food for the Outdoor Life, Camden, Me.: Ragged Mountain Press, TAB Books, →ISBN, page 60

Examples of quichey in a sentence

  • There are a couple of soups, a hot dish, a quichey option, a salad of the day, good trad puds and that’s about it.2002 October, Charles Campion, The Rough Guide to London Restaurants, 2003/5th edition, London: Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 187:
  • Bright with curry and fresh with the cheese, this tart has substantial texture, not remotely quichey, which is why it’s called “tourte” instead.2014, Laura Calder, Paris Express: Simple Food from the City of Style, Toronto, Ont.: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, →ISBN, page 91:

Forms of quichey

comparativemore quichey
superlativemost quichey

Origin of quichey

From quiche + -y.

Questions about quichey

What does quichey mean?
Quichey means resembling or characteristic of quiche.
How do you use quichey in a sentence?
There are a couple of soups, a hot dish, a quichey option, a salad of the day, good trad puds and that’s about it.
What part of speech is quichey?
Quichey is an adjective.

Words near quichey in the dictionary

  1. quiched
  2. quichelike
  3. quiches
  4. quiches lorraines
  5. Quicheu
  6. quichey
  7. quiching
  8. Quichua
  9. Quichuan
  10. Quichuans
  11. Quiché

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