tallowy

Or tal·low·like

[tal-oh-ee]

adjective

1. resembling tallow in consistency, color, etc.; fatty.

   a tallowy mass of moistened powder; tallowy skin.

Other Word Forms

• tallowiness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of tallowy¹

First recorded in 1400–50, tallowy is from the late Middle English word talwy. See tallow, -y ¹

Example Sentences

When the doctor handed Emmett to me, tallowy and streaked with blood, it was the first time I’d ever really held a baby.

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Three times a day the family gorges itself upon lumps of mutton, fried in the tallowy fat of the sheep’s tail, or else—their only change of diet—upon the tasteless fricadel—kneaded balls of meat and onions, likewise swimming in grease.

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"Now listen!" said this fellow, a giant, with long black hair falling over a tallowy face.

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Their paler children swarmed about them, little long-earringed girls like wax dolls dressed in scraps of old finery, little boys in tattered caftans with long-lashed eyes and wily smiles; and, waddling in the rear, their unwieldy grandmothers, huge lumps of tallowy flesh who were probably still in the thirties.

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The tallowy man in a blue kerseymere coat and breeches is one of the Feeders, and is acting in that capacity for the Services represented by Lieutenant Blewforth, while the civilians are employing the good offices of Jimmy Trickett, who on less exciting occasions is one of the hostlers of the Blue Boar.

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