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blottery

adj

Etymology

From blotter + -y.

  1. inherited from blot — “blot, spot, stain, blemish”
  2. suffixed as blotter — “blot + er”
  3. suffixed as blottery — “blotter + y”

Definitions

  1. Resembling blotting paper.

    • When I realized that that wretched little tin can was all that stood between me and the world, his wife and his family, there was an acute palpitation around the heart, and a dry blottery feeling in the mouth.
    • Mark, a cheeping chorister of our schooldays, has retained, despite the blottery tenor that has displaced his treble, a habit of uttering with the suddenness of a ship’s siren, the less interesting of [Franz] Schubert's ditties.
    • The announcements were pale green and on paper of a blottery texture which harbored no errors in folding.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for blottery. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA