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stringy

[ string-ee ]

adjective

stringier, stringiest.
  1. resembling a string or strings; consisting of strings or stringlike pieces:

    stringy weeds; a stringy fiber.

  2. coarsely or toughly fibrous, as meat.
  3. sinewy or wiry, as a person.
  4. ropy, as a glutinous liquid.


stringy

/ ˈ²õ³Ù°ùɪŋɪ /

adjective

  1. made of strings or resembling strings
  2. (of meat, etc) fibrous
  3. (of a person's build) wiry; sinewy
  4. (of liquids) forming in strings
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ²õ³Ù°ù¾±²Ô²µ¾±²Ô±ð²õ²õ, noun
  • ˈ²õ³Ù°ù¾±²Ô²µ¾±±ô²â, adverb
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ²õ³Ù°ù¾±²Ô²µî€ƒi·²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of stringy1

First recorded in 1660–70; string + -y 1
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Example Sentences

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In the film’s third act, Manville appears as the eccentric Doctor Cotter, a botanist living in the South American jungle in the 1950s, whose stringy, gray hair is almost long enough to trail behind her.

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In this case: a stringy slot corner who never had been credited for a sack in his college career.

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If your cooked lobster is too stringy or tough, that means it’s been overcooked.

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Snake was tall and skinny, and Newt was short and freckled, with long, stringy braids.

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Male chicks serve little purpose in this production cycle, because they can’t lay eggs and their flesh is deemed tough and stringy.

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