rubbery en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈɹʌbəɹi/
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
Etymology tree English rubber Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English rubbery From rubber + -y.
Meanings
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Of, relating to, or resembling rubber, especially in consistency.
In this same temperature range, however, the leg is at its rubberiest.
1988 April 29, Harold McGee, “Curious Cook; Why the Rubber Chicken Leg Can Bounce Across the Road”, in The New York Times:CJ Biomaterials was the first company in the world to produce amorphous PHA, it says, which is a softer, rubberier version of PHA that offers fundamentally different performance characteristics than crystalline or semi-crystalline forms of the biopolymer.
2023 June 29, Mike Edwards, “Collaboration leads to eco-friendly straw made with polyhydroxyalkanoate”, in CPECN:What a bad restaurant! The beef was so rubbery I thought I'd never finish chewing it.
If you boil it for hours, it becomes rubbery and overcooked.
2020 September 6, Randall Munroe, “Can You Boil an Egg Too Long?”, in The New York Times:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| rubberier | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| rubberiest | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Deriveds
rubberiness · rubbery figures · rubberily
Translations (9)
fi kuminen (relating to or resembling rubber) · it gommoso (relating to or resembling rubber) · fr caoutchouteux (relating to or resembling rubber) · ru рези́новый (relating to or resembling rubber) · es elástico (relating to or resembling rubber) · bg еластичен (relating to or resembling rubber) · es gomoso (relating to or resembling rubber) · da gummiagtig (relating to or resembling rubber) · pt borrachudo (relating to or resembling rubber)