chalky

English

Etymology

From chalk +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɔːki

Adjective

chalky (comparative chalkier, superlative chalkiest)

1. Consisting of or containing chalk.
2. Resembling chalk in some way.

   a chalky texture

   • 1950 July, “Traveller's Joy”, in Railway Magazine, page ii (advertisement):

     Their flowers range from the rather formal blossoming of outer London to the wilder flowering of the country, where willow-herb and broom, traveller's joy and campion, go rioting over the chalky banks of the Metropolitan Line.

3. (US, sports, chiefly basketball) Of a tournament: in which the favorites win, or expected to win, most of the games.
   • 2019, FiveThirtyEight‎^[1]:

     It’s funny — even though the bracket has been so chalky, several of the top seeds have looked suspect at times.

Derived terms

• chalkily
• chalkiness
• chalky paper
• chalky percher
• nonchalky

Related terms

• chalkiness

Translations

consisting of or containing chalk

• Russian: меловой (ru) (melovoj), известковый (ru) (izvestkovyj)
• Ukrainian: кре́йдовий (uk) (kréjdovyj)

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “chalky”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• hackly