veiny
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- adjective
- /ˈveɪni/
:
venoso
- Around his mouth looked really veiny but the veins were dark purple and spider like.
- veiny hands
- looks veiny
Like get veiny like, like do something to look like a human anatomical chart.
- Like get veiny like, like do something to look like a human anatomical chart.
- It is disgusting and wet and tight and veiny.
Examples
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He had raised his big, veiny hands, palms up and open, certainly not to attack.
Fiction book (1990) -
Our two hands were nearly of a size, though my skin was wrinkled and veiny and her nails were dirty.
Fiction book (1998) -
You see that it looks all veiny and alive like a bat wing, all right?
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"The veiny, shiny, thin hand
Fiction book (1990) -
The hollows in his eyes were deep, the skin around them veiny and purplish.
Fiction book (1999) -
She watched one gnarled, veiny arm stretch forward as if detached.
Fiction book (2000) -
She watched him drive with one large, veiny hand on the steering wheel while he held the can of beer in his other hand and took swigs.
Fiction book (1990) -
She covered his hand—his mottled, dry, veiny hand—with her own.
Fiction book (1995) -
Then I see Dennis coming down the stairs—his naked, veiny feet, his grubby jeans, the billow of his stomach that pushes against his disheveled shirt.
Fiction book (1999) -
After the workout, his arms were so veiny that the muscles seemed to pop out visibly.
Synonyms
Showing many thin lines like those in leaves or marble
Having lines and marks like those on a leaf or marble
Having thin lines like the veins in leaves or insect wings
A pattern of thin lines like those on a leaf or in marble
About the veins in a plant's leaves or stem
How Veined
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word veiny comes from vein, which means 'a tube that carries blood', and the ending -y, which means 'full of' or 'having'. So when skin or muscles show many visible veins, we call them veiny because they look 'full of' veins.