stringy

[ string-ee ]

/ ˈstrɪŋ i /

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adjective, string·i·er, string·i·est.

resembling a string or strings; consisting of strings or stringlike pieces: stringy weeds; a stringy fiber.

coarsely or toughly fibrous, as meat.

sinewy or wiry, as a person.

ropy, as a glutinous liquid.

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Origin of stringy

First recorded in 1660–70; string + -y¹

OTHER WORDS FROM stringy

string·i·ness, noun

Words nearby stringy

string theory, string tie, string together, string up, string variable, stringy, stringy-bark, strip, strip bond, strip cartoon, strip city

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It's also true that--like many squashes and gourds--it needs to be stewed and pureed to get rid of its stringy texture.
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A dense and stringy fruit, it needs the accompaniment of a lot of sugar and spices before it becomes particularly palatable.
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That changed Feb. 4, when the stringy 6-foot-3, 23-year-old Knicks guard racked up 25 points against the New Jersey Nets.
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Smith—sporting blue jeans, combat boots, a black blazer, and that signature mess of stringy brown hair—offers to show me around.
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It is true that the beef she used was not often beef, but she did not know that, and merely complained that the meat was stringy.
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Mr. Neech was a dried-up, snuff-coloured man, with a long thin nose and stringy neck and dark piercing eyes.
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I then produced large nets made out of strips of green hide and stringy-bark rope.
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His face grew stringy and his voice harder, and his eyes ready to burst from a smother of fire.
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On the whole it was voted good though it had a strong, musty taste and was so stringy that it could not be properly chewed.
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British Dictionary definitions for stringy

stringy

/ (ˈstrɪŋɪ) /

adjective stringier or stringiest

made of strings or resembling strings

(of meat, etc) fibrous

(of a person's build) wiry; sinewy

(of liquids) forming in strings

Derived forms of stringy

stringily, adverbstringiness, noun

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