floury
- adjective
- /ˈflaʊəri/
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harinoso
- With the back of a floury hand, she wipes her forehead and keeps kneading the lumps of dough, pushing and tucking it around and into itself, the familiar sour-milk smell heavy in the hot kitchen.
Examples
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She sprinkled some floury powder on the countertop before rolling out the pastry.
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I'd made a taco with a floury grilled tortilla.
Fiction book (2002) -
The dough was soft and floury after being kneaded for several minutes.
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He noticed that the floury residue dusted his shirt after baking bread.
Synonyms
9
1.4
In the form of many tiny dry pieces, like spices or sugar
8
7.1
Having a dry, powdery texture like ground grain
4
3.0
Covered with fine, dry dust that easily falls off
1
4.4
Contains very small, closely packed particles that make it feel smooth like fine sugar
A dry, powdery feel like flour that comes from a lot of starch
Having a dry, crumbly texture like stale bread
Very small and powdery like dust
Made of very small pieces like fine sand
Antonyms
How Powdery
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Floury comes from flour, the fine powder used in cooking, and flour comes from an old word flower that meant the 'finest part' of the grain. So floury means 'like flour' or 'covered with a soft, powdery layer'.