dippable

1 3.4

Easy to dip into a sauce or liquid without breaking

adjective
/ˈdɪpəbl/

: sumergible

The crunchy tortilla chips are perfect for salsa; they're very dippable.

Examples

I love how these vegetables are so dippable in the creamy ranch dressing.
Ain't nothing dippable like a chicken finger.
You know, it starts to make it more more dippable and swarthy.
For a tasty snack, serve dippable breadsticks with marinara sauce.

How Dippable

sturdy

79 2.1

firm

87 1.0

dippable

1 3.4

soft

557 1.0

crumbly

7 3.0

Surface Forms

dippable positive

Morphology

dippable = dip (transparent) = dip + able

The adjective is a straightforward adjectival formation from the verb 'dip' with the productive suffix '-able', meaning 'able to be dipped'.

Etymology

Dippable comes from the simple verb dip, which means 'to put something into a liquid', plus the ending -able, which means 'able to'. So a dippable food is one that can be dipped into a sauce or soup without breaking or falling apart.