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cornmealy en · ADJ

Etymology

From cornmeal + -y.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of cornmeal.
   • She slid a glance with a trace of longing at my one remaining hush puppy. I forked it into my mouth and chewed it down, letting the pleasure of its cornmealy goodness show on my face. 2016, Anna Castle, Flash Memory (Lost Hat, Texas; 2), →ISBN:
2. With cornmeal.
   • Cleaning steamers sucks. You have to put them in great vats of water with cornmeal and let them sit. […] I pulled my hands out of the cornmealy water, dried them on my apron and said to my mother that I was taking a little break. 1985, Sandra Scoppettone, Playing Murder, New York, N.Y.: Harper Keypoint, published 1987, →ISBN, pages 119 and 121:
   • I was far more taken with the pastry chef’s nightly dinner rolls: cornmealy anadama, rustic country Italian, soft potato flecked with spring chives. 2000, Gourmet, volume 60, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast, page 150:
   • “Tamales. Just unpeel ’em out of the husk. There’s napkins on top.” They were hot and cornmealy and full of meat. 1994, Donald McCaig, Nop’s Hope, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 24:

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