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maizy en · ADJ

Etymology

From maize + -y.

Meanings

  1. Resembling or characteristic of maize.
    • Desert dabs of red and ochre, alternating with a maizy gold and the blue-green of eucalyptus, take you immediately into the dazzling land. 2021 June 13, Laura Cumming, “Of dreaming and nightmares”, in The New Review (The Observer), page 30:
    • They were crunchy as pretzels with a maizy taste that was bread-crummy at first and then sweet. 2006, Adam Green, Satsuma Sun-mover, Lazy Gramophone Press, →ISBN, page 96:
    • Your mouth can’t be real, unless God, who doesn’t exist, has performed a miracle and sent to Earth not a bearded savior but a pair of strawberry lips and teeth as crookedly perfect as wave-battered rocks under a maizy sun where no man could fear death. 2009, Darrin Doyle, The Girl Who Ate Kalamazoo, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Griffin, published 2010, →ISBN, page 5:
    • Corn, used in most mass-market Canadian beer, has a sweet and maizy flavor that shows clearly when used in high proportions. 1997, Jamie MacKinnon, The Great Lakes Beer Guide: Eastern Region: An Affectionate, Opinionated Guide to the Beers of Michigan, New York, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Quebec and Vermont, The Boston Mills Press, →ISBN, page 49:

Forms

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maizey alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

maizypop