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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

/ ˈٰɪŋɪ /

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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Other 51Թ Forms

  • stringiness noun
  • stringily adverb
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of stringy1

First recorded in 1660–70; string + -y 1
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However, the report concluded that “this substance clumps together in stool, causing long, stringy structures to form,” which made the patients think they were passing worms when they were not.

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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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