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cottony

[ kot-n-ee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

Origin of cottony¹

First recorded in 1570–80; cotton + -y ¹

The paper should have a cottony feel to it, almost like money, and it should have a watermark seal on it, too.

These two types of fungus leave a dusty or cottony coating on grapes and leaves.

He was conscious of a hunger that was beyond discomfort, and a thirst that left his mouth dry and cottony.

Stem: Cylindrical; creamy white; hollow, or with a loose cottony pith.

Cottony clouds stood, in a great castle, over the top of Arran, and blew out in long streamers to the south.

He has a little shrivelled face, looking as if it had been in the fire, and a short cottony beard, like moss on an old stone.

It was a thirst that started in his throat, spread to his dry cottony mouth, sank deep into his drying insides.

April 18, 2024petrichor

[pet-ri-kawr]

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