rubbery

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English

Etymology

From rubber +‎ -y.

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Adjective

rubbery (comparative rubberier, superlative rubberiest)

  1. Of, relating to, or resembling rubber, especially in consistency.
    What a bad restaurant! The beef was so rubbery I thought I'd never finish chewing it.
    • 1988 April 29, Harold McGee, “Curious Cook; Why the Rubber Chicken Leg Can Bounce Across the Road”, in The New York Times‎:
      In this same temperature range, however, the leg is at its rubberiest.
    • 2020 June 9, Randall Munroe, “Can You Boil an Egg Too Long?”, in The New York Times‎:
      If you boil it for hours, it becomes rubbery and overcooked.
    • 2023 June 29, Mike Edwards, “Collaboration leads to eco-friendly straw made with polyhydroxyalkanoate”, in CPECN‎:
      CJ Biomaterials was the first company in the world to produce amorphous PHA, it says, which is a softer, rubberier version of PHA that offers fundamentally different performance characteristics than crystalline or semi-crystalline forms of the biopolymer.

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