cornmealy

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English

Etymology

cornmeal +‎ -y

Adjective

cornmealy (comparative more cornmealy, superlative most cornmealy)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of cornmeal.
    • 2016, Anna Castle, Flash Memory (Lost Hat, Texas; 2)‎, →ISBN:
      She slid a glance with a trace of longing at my one remaining hush puppy. I forked it into my mouth and chewed it down, letting the pleasure of its cornmealy goodness show on my face.
  2. With cornmeal.
    • 1985, Sandra Scoppettone, Playing Murder, New York, N.Y.: Harper Keypoint, published 1987, →ISBN, pages 119 and 121:
      Cleaning steamers sucks. You have to put them in great vats of water with cornmeal and let them sit. […] I pulled my hands out of the cornmealy water, dried them on my apron and said to my mother that I was taking a little break.
    • 1994, Donald McCaig, Nop’s Hope, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 24:
      “Tamales. Just unpeel ’em out of the husk. There’s napkins on top.” They were hot and cornmealy and full of meat.
    • 2000, Gourmet, volume 60, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast, page 150:
      I was far more taken with the pastry chef’s nightly dinner rolls: cornmealy anadama, rustic country Italian, soft potato flecked with spring chives.
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