threadish
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]threadish (comparative more threadish, superlative most threadish)
- Threadlike or thready.
- 1898, The Medical Counselor - Volume 17, page 126:
- Pulse is fast, and full, and threadish; Skin is hot, and dry, and reddish;
- 1996, Beryl Gilroy, Gather the Faces, page 47:
- Meat is not popular with me — too threadish, especially beef.
- 2000, Terry Schiffman, Adam and Even, page 130:
- He tied the splint into place with cord he'd made from long, threadish needle-grass awns.