stringy
3
4.4
- adjective
- /ˈstrɪŋi/
:
fibroso
- Those are peas where the outer shell tends to get a little stringy or a little tough, maybe slightly bitter.
- stringy meat
- stringy beef
- stringy flesh
Examples
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"That's a stringy old fowl," she commented after polishing off a chicken.
Fiction book (1997) -
Stringy chicken.
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An old and stringy elk.
Fiction book (1994) -
Other raiders broke open packages of stringy dried meat.
Fiction book (1996) -
"It's stringy and dry and ugly," Betsy said.
Fiction book (1998) -
Long stringy pieces of flesh, like jerky, sat on the bottom.
Fiction book (2001) -
Turnips: bundles of tough, stringy greens.
Fiction book (1993) -
So we had to eat stringy wherry instead of good juicy redfish steaks.
Fiction book (1991) -
Lula's eyes are bloodshot, her hair is greasy and stringy, and her cheeks are pale.
Fiction book (1990) -
The chicken was tough and stringy, making it difficult to chew.
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
5
3.7
Tough and hard to chew, like overcooked meat or seafood
1
6.0
Having tough stringy parts that are hard to chew
1
7.9
Like long thin threads that stretch and feel sticky
1
7.6
Meat with tough bits that are hard to chew
1
7.8
Food, especially meat, that has tough parts that are hard to chew
Antonyms
How Chewy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Stringy comes from string ('a long thin piece of thread') and -y ('like' or 'full of'). When meat or food is called stringy, it has many tough, thread-like fibres that make it hard to chew.