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stringy

adjective/ˈstɹɪŋi/

What It Means

Composed of, or resembling, string or strings.

Tough to the bite, as containing too much sinew or string tissue.

Wiry, lean, scrawny.

The meat was quite stringy.

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Stringy in Context

“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

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From string + -y.

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