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English
Etymology
From powder + -y.
Pronunciation
Adjective
powdery (comparative more powdery, superlative most powdery)
- Of or pertaining to powder.
- Synonym: (rare) pulveral
- powdery drink
1870–1871 (date written), Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXI, in Roughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company , published 1872, →OCLC, page 157:We were plowing through great deeps of powdery alkali dust that rose in thick clouds and floated across the plain like smoke from a burning house. We were coated with it like millers; so were the coach, the mules, the mail-bags, the driver—we and the sage-brush and the other scenery were all one monotonous color.
- Having a lot of powder.
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Derived terms
Translations
of or pertaining to powder
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