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hostessy

adj

Etymology

From hostess + -y.

  1. derived from ostesce
  2. derived from hostesse
  3. inherited from hostesse
  4. suffixed as hostessy — “hostess + y”

Definitions

  1. Characteristic of a hostess

    Characteristic of a hostess; cheerful, helpful, etc.

    • Grace is animated, hostessy, a person not at all his daughter. She is wearing ruby-red lipstick and a mannish turtleneck[…]
    • “Lovely!” Diane threw in another brilliant hostessy smile.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hostessy. 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