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stainy

stainy adjective: that easily stains.

Adjective

stainy (comparative more stainy, superlative most stainy)

  1. (rare) That easily stains
    • June 21, 2015, Richard Clayton in Financial Times, The Strokes, Hyde Park, London — review
      Possibly in a Fat Elvis-gone-to-art-school phase — hanks of hair dyed splodgy red and stainy yellow — he bawled his lyrics in his characteristic drawl.
    • The cacao and almonds are poured into the hopper, and very soon a stainy, tacky chocolate sauce oozes out of the spout— which has been sprinkled with sugar so that none will stick and be wasted1984, Organization of American States

Forms of stainy

comparativemore stainy
superlativemost stainy

Questions about stainy

What does stainy mean?
Stainy means that easily stains.
What part of speech is stainy?
Stainy is an adjective.

Words near stainy in the dictionary

  1. Stainsacre
  2. Stainthorpe
  3. Stainton
  4. Stainton and Thornton
  5. Staintondale
  6. stainy
  7. staio
  8. staios
  9. stair
  10. stair gate
  11. stair gates

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