tallowy
8.6
Smells, looks, and feels like soft animal fat
- adjective
- /ˈtæloʊi/
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graso
- The candle had a tallowy texture that made it easy to mold into shapes.
Examples
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She drinks her coffee, sitting on the ground beside a small cedar fire that burns with a tallowy, weak effect in the morning sunlight.
Fiction book (1994) -
After cooking, the meat left a tallowy residue on the pan that was difficult to clean.
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Her face isn't wrinkled so much as worn to a translucent, tallowy sheen.
Fiction book (1991) -
These days, at Joe's, the hair in the trichologist's dustpan is gray, tallowy yellow, or the fraudulent flat-black of shoe polish.
Fiction book (1996) -
The artist painted the walls with a tallowy color, giving the room an old-fashioned feel.
How Greasy
Surface Forms
tallowy positive
Morphology
Etymology
Tallowy comes from tallow 'animal fat' and the ending -y meaning 'full of' or 'having'. So tallowy describes something that looks, feels, or smells like candle grease or old soap, that is greasy, waxy, or oily.