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sweet-potatoey

sweet-potatoey adjective: resembling or characteristic of sweet potatoes.

Adjective

sweet-potatoey (comparative more sweet-potatoey, superlative most sweet-potatoey)

  1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of sweet potatoes.
    • sweet-potatoey flavour
    • The rain forest may be loaded with all kinds of edible fruits like […] the giant irregularly oblong green fruit called mbé (Anonidium mannii) that falls with a far-carrying head-crushing thud and whose orange flesh with its sweet-potatoey flavor is so rich in protein that in a real fix its ripe...1995, Louis Sarno, edited by Stephen Ciabattoni, Bayaka: The Extraordinary Music of the Babenzélé Pygmies and Sounds of Their Forest Home, Roslyn, NY: Ellipsis Arts, page 60

Forms of sweet-potatoey

comparativemore sweet-potatoey
superlativemost sweet-potatoey

Origin of sweet-potatoey

From sweet potato + -ey.

Questions about sweet-potatoey

What does sweet-potatoey mean?
Sweet-potatoey means resembling or characteristic of sweet potatoes.
What part of speech is sweet-potatoey?
Sweet-potatoey is an adjective.

Words near sweet-potatoey in the dictionary

  1. sweet-leaf
  2. sweet-leafs
  3. sweet-leaves
  4. sweet-Nancy
  5. sweet-natured
  6. sweet-potatoey
  7. sweet-scented
  8. sweet-scented joe-pye weed
  9. sweet-shop
  10. sweet-smelling
  11. sweet-sop

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