rubbery
5
3.7
- adjective
- /ˈrʌbəri/
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- Parked a block from her house, he ate the rubbery hot dogs and slugged down two or three cans.
- rubbery legs
- rubbery chicken
- rubbery flesh
Like, you boiled chicken, like way too long with no spices or anything, where it gets that kind of rubbery flavor or texture.
- Like, you boiled chicken, like way too long with no spices or anything, where it gets that kind of rubbery flavor or texture.
Examples
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And for once this brownie does not taste rubbery.
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Dessert consisted of a rubbery yellow pudding that, in retrospect, made tapioca taste like ambrosia.
Fiction book (1990) -
My sister loved it, but it was too rubbery for my taste.
Blog text (14) -
I feel like this one is the least cooked, so it has a more rubbery texture.
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Like, you boiled chicken, like way too long with no spices or anything, where it gets that kind of rubbery flavor or texture.
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Be careful not to overcook scallops; doing so makes them rubbery and tough.
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Using buttermilk tends to get rid of the rubbery texture found in fat-free baking.
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Each day at lunch, Raha sat alone in the large hall, eating rubbery roast beef and Brussels sprouts.
Synonyms
31
1.7
Hard to cut and chew, often meat or old bread
27
1.0
Hard to bite and break with your teeth because it is tough and a little rubbery
12
3.9
Feels tough but flexible like animal skin
1
7.8
Food, especially meat, that has tough parts that are hard to chew
1
9.9
Thick and tough like leather
A thing that feels stretchy and slightly tough like rubber
Having a firm, chewy texture like the tissue inside ears and noses
Antonyms
How Chewy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Rubbery comes from the material rubber and the ending -y, which makes it 'like' that thing, so 'rubbery' means 'like rubber'. So if food is rubbery, it is too tough and elastic—like biting something that keeps pushing back—which is why it is hard to chew.