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sandpapery

adj

Etymology

From sandpaper + -y.

  1. derived from πάπυρος
  2. derived from papȳrus
  3. derived from paper
  4. derived from papier
  5. inherited from paper
  6. compounded as sandpaper — “sand + paper”
  7. suffixed as sandpapery — “sandpaper + y”

Definitions

  1. Resembling sandpaper.

    • TV talk-show host Les Crane annoyed plenty of people in the mid-'60s with his sandpapery communication style.
    • A bruiser with a sandpapery voice, he was a reliable teller of corner-boy tales and, it seemed, a willing cog.
    • This name sounds pretty cool though. You like the way it rolls off your sandpapery tongue.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sandpapery. 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