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English
Etymology
From mustard + -y.
Adjective
mustardy (comparative more mustardy, superlative most mustardy)
- Resembling or characteristic of mustard.
1979, Perla Meyers, Perla Meyers’ From Market to Kitchen Cookbook, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 29, column 2:They have a tangy, definite, somewhat mustardy flavor that combines well with other greens and takes well to a dressing such as the Vinaigrette Provençale on page 461.
- Condimented with mustard.
- Synonym: mustarded
1957, Allen Hackett, Quickened Spirit: A Biography of Frank Sutliff Hackett, New York, N.Y.: The Riverdale Country School, page 60:I disliked the mustardy “hot dogs” the boys ate before they got on the subway, but no real harm resulted.
2000, Paul Golding, The Abomination, Picador, →ISBN, page 87:Sandwiches in shadow. Row upon dewy row; serried ranks of cheese and cucumber, and watercressed egg, and mustardy ham.
2020 August 12, Lindsay Christians, “A distanced dinner party, nostalgic nachos”, in The Cap Times, page 22:Mustardy green beans with anchovied walnuts from “Nothing Fancy” by Alison Roman — This is maybe my new favorite way to prepare pole beans, whether green, purple or yellow.