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ricey

ricey

6.7
A dish that tastes or smells like rice and is often made mostly from it
  • adjective
  • /ˈraɪsi/
translation icon : arrozoso
  • The chef prepared a ricey dish that was fragrant and delicious.

Examples

  • There we go, these are our ricey porky dumplings.

  • He enjoyed the ricey texture of the sushi roll filled with seafood.

  • Her ricey dessert mixed sweet coconut milk with fluffy rice.

How Ricey

ricey
6.7
starchy
6 3.0
neutral
24 3.5

Surface Forms

ricey positive

Morphology

ricey = rice (transparent) = rice + y

Standard adjectival formation from the noun 'rice' to mean 'having the qualities or taste of rice', directly derivable by learners.

Etymology

Ricey is simply the food word rice with the adjective ending -y, so it literally means 'like rice' or 'made of rice'. That's why a dish or smell that reminds you of rice can be called 'like rice' or 'ricey'.