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sandpapery

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Etymology

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From sandpaper +‎ -y.

Adjective

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sandpapery (comparative more sandpapery, superlative most sandpapery)

  1. Resembling sandpaper.
    • 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 278:
      TV talk-show host Les Crane annoyed plenty of people in the mid-'60s with his sandpapery communication style.
    • 2009 March 30, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      A bruiser with a sandpapery voice, he was a reliable teller of corner-boy tales and, it seemed, a willing cog.
    • 2011,, Kazerad, Enter name, in: Prequel -or- Making A Cat Cry: The Adventure (webcomic), March 12 2011
      This name sounds pretty cool though. You like the way it rolls off your sandpapery tongue.
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