cornmealy
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]cornmealy (comparative more cornmealy, superlative most cornmealy)
- Resembling or characteristic of cornmeal.
- With cornmeal.
- 1985, Sandra Scoppettone, Playing Murder, New York, N.Y.: Harper Keypoint, published 1987, →ISBN, pages 119 and 121:
- 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.
- 1994, Donald McCaig, Nop’s Hope, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 24:
- “Tamales. Just unpeel ’em out of the husk. There’s napkins on top.” They were hot and cornmealy and full of meat.
- 2000, Gourmet, volume 60, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast, page 150:
- I was far more taken with the pastry chef’s nightly dinner rolls: cornmealy anadama, rustic country Italian, soft potato flecked with spring chives.