linty
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4.6
- adjective
- /ˈlɪnti/
:
pelusoso
- Like a sack of light propped in a chair at the table, frosted white light, Mama, in her linty nightgown and her month-old Christmas bathrobe, a gift from Hilda, sipped a cup of coffee, her lip raised.
- linty pocket
They are super linty, which means they leave stuff on stuff that's I don't want that out of a shop rag and their dye stains things.
- They are super linty, which means they leave stuff on stuff that's I don't want that out of a shop rag and their dye stains things.
Examples
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Oil on canvas, linty by twenty-three inches, signed and dated 1887, in which a young bacchante is crowning with a wreath, the berm of Bacchus?
Fiction book (1995) -
The porch was so small I stood right beside him, an anxious girl in a faded leotard and linty, red-splotted tights.
Fiction book (1998) -
How could she forget him, letting him go over to Dorothy's every morning with his dirty clothes and linty hair?
Fiction book (1994) -
Through the linty screen, he could see a kerosene lamp on a table where the girl sat, bent to read.
Fiction book (1991) -
He ducked beneath the bureau and returned with linty whiskers.
Fiction book (1995) -
He rubbed the pajamas against his cheek, the linty, fleecy fabric catching on his stubble.
Fiction book (2002) -
They are super linty, which means they leave stuff on stuff that's I don't want that out of a shop rag and their dye stains things.
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To her, I must have been a living war on beauty, a sullen, wild-haired lummox in twisted, linty black tights, with a derriere like a brick, there by way of my mother's dream of rehabilitation.
Fiction book (1998) -
George can imagine the tapes playing in her head and wishes to clarify—it was just once, and Helen had seemed to need him that way, on the linty carpet where Richie's deathbed had been—but now Marjorie is coming toward him.
Fiction book (2002) -
He rubbed the pajamas against his cheek, the linty, fleecy fabric catching on his stubble.
Synonyms
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1.1
Covered with soft light hairs like kitten fur
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9.9
Having a soft, fluffy look like small tufts of wool
Soft and light with a fluffy texture like down
Antonyms
How Linty
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Linty comes from lint, a word for the small bits of fiber or fluff that stick to clothes, so linty means 'covered with small bits of fiber'.