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cornmealy

adj

Etymology

From cornmeal + -y.

  1. derived from *meh₁-✻ — “to measure”
  2. inherited from *mēlą✻
  3. inherited from *māl✻
  4. inherited from mǣl — “measure, time, occasion, set time, time for eating, meal”
  5. inherited from mel
  6. compounded as cornmeal — “corn + meal”
  7. suffixed as cornmealy — “cornmeal + y”

Definitions

  1. Resembling or characteristic of cornmeal.

    • She slid a glance with a trace of longing at my one remaining hush puppy. I forked it into my mouth and chewed it down, letting the pleasure of its cornmealy goodness show on my face.

  2. With cornmeal.

    • Cleaning steamers sucks. You have to put them in great vats of water with cornmeal and let them sit. […] I pulled my hands out of the cornmealy water, dried them on my apron and said to my mother that I was taking a little break.
    • “Tamales. Just unpeel ’em out of the husk. There’s napkins on top.” They were hot and cornmealy and full of meat.
    • I was far more taken with the pastry chef’s nightly dinner rolls: cornmealy anadama, rustic country Italian, soft potato flecked with spring chives.

The neighborhood

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