stringier

Adjective

stringy (comparative stringier, superlative stringiest)

1. Composed of, or resembling, string or strings.
2. Tough to the bite, as containing too much sinew or string tissue.
   • The meat was quite stringy.
3. Wiry, lean, scrawny.
   • The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it.1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter I, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC
4. (informal) Resembling or involving text strings.
   • The context refers to how you use an expression. You've actually already seen some contextual operations with numbers and strings. When you do numbery sorts of things, you get numeric results. When you do stringy sorts of things, you get string results.2011, Randal L. Schwartz, brian d foy, Tom Phoenix, Learning Perl, page 56
5. Of a sighting, unlikely to be accurate; probably based on a misidentification, whether innocent or deliberate.
   • There are few birders who have not had stringy ticks on their lists at some stage.1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 76