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bambooey en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /bæmˈbuːi/

Etymology

From bamboo + -ey.

Meanings

1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of bamboo.
   • Old Percy, with fixed, mad blue eye and a rusty scythe, was attacking the "Japanese creeper" bambooey plant which had shot up green in the alley by the drive. 1982 (published), Sylvia Plath, journal entry - May 15 1962
   • There were rows and rows of shelves of books from the floor to the ceiling that came out between the windows and in the gloomy bit at the end of each row they'd put a bambooey-looking table with a jungly green plant […] 1990, Ray Salisbury, Sweet Thursday:

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