mustardy

English

Etymology

From mustard +‎ -y.

Adjective

mustardy (comparative more mustardy, superlative most mustardy)

1. Resembling or characteristic of mustard.
   • 1979, Perla Meyers, Perla Meyers’ From Market to Kitchen Cookbook, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 29, column 2:

     They have a tangy, definite, somewhat mustardy flavor that combines well with other greens and takes well to a dressing such as the Vinaigrette Provençale on page 461.

2. Condimented with mustard.

   Synonym: mustarded

   • 1957, Allen Hackett, Quickened Spirit: A Biography of Frank Sutliff Hackett, New York, N.Y.: The Riverdale Country School, page 60:

     I disliked the mustardy “hot dogs” the boys ate before they got on the subway, but no real harm resulted.

   • 2000, Paul Golding, The Abomination, Picador, →ISBN, page 87:

     Sandwiches in shadow. Row upon dewy row; serried ranks of cheese and cucumber, and watercressed egg, and mustardy ham.

   • 2020 August 12, Lindsay Christians, “A distanced dinner party, nostalgic nachos”, in The Cap Times, page 22:

     Mustardy green beans with anchovied walnuts from “Nothing Fancy” by Alison Roman — This is maybe my new favorite way to prepare pole beans, whether green, purple or yellow.