stringy

American  

[string-ee] / ˈstrɪŋ i /

adjective

stringier, stringiest

1. resembling a string or strings; consisting of strings or stringlike pieces.

   stringy weeds; a stringy fiber.

2. coarsely or toughly fibrous, as meat.

3. sinewy or wiry, as a person.

4. ropy, as a glutinous liquid.

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stringy British  

/ ˈstrɪŋɪ /

adjective

1. made of strings or resembling strings

2. (of meat, etc) fibrous

3. (of a person's build) wiry; sinewy

4. (of liquids) forming in strings

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Other Word Forms

• stringily adverb
• stringiness noun

Etymology

Origin of stringy

First recorded in 1660–70; string + -y ¹

Example Sentences

As I completed them, I began to notice that my heels of bread grew larger; my ration of watery soup contained a stringy piece of vegetable, or sometimes a hunk of rancid meat.

From Literature

“Not bad. Kinda like stringy pork. You should try it sometime.”

From Literature

The crust is moist and chewy at the same time, and the cheese falls off in long, stringy pieces.

From Literature

The meat was stringy and gray with little streaks of pink in it, and it reeked like roadkill.

From Literature

“Well, don’t go calling me Cornelia,” I countered, pushing a lock of my stringy hair away from my eyes and tromping across the room.

From Literature