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gumdroppy

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English

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Etymology

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From gumdrop +‎ -y.

Adjective

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gumdroppy (comparative more gumdroppy, superlative most gumdroppy)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a gumdrop.
    • 1945, The Reader's Digest, volume 47, page 102:
      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, []
    • 2017, Imre Szeman, Dominic Boyer, Energy Humanities, page 364:
      Raindrops are raindroppy, not gumdroppy—more's the pity.