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gumdroppy en · ADJ

Etymology

From gumdrop + -y.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of a gumdrop.
   • I courted her with chocolate balls that changed hue as you sucked away layer after layer; licorice whips and shoelaces a yard long; red raspberries of a hard gumdroppy consistency, […] 1945, The Reader's Digest, volume 47, page 102:
   • Raindrops are raindroppy, not gumdroppy—more's the pity. 2017, Imre Szeman, Dominic Boyer, Energy Humanities, page 364:

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