vegetabley

vegetabley (comparative more vegetabley, superlative most vegetabley)

1. Alternative form of vegetably.
   • 1933 September, [Winifred,] Lady Fortescue, “Business—À La Mode Provençale”, in Blackwood’s Magazine, volume CCXXXIV, number MCCCCXV, page 397:

     Emilia sits enthroned on the divan in the hall, wound up in telephone cords and wires, grasping the receiver in both floury (or fishy, or meaty, or vegetabley) hands, puce in the face with excitement, shrieking condolences and counsel and arranging appointments with one and all of her family at the top of her voice.

   • 1987, Sophie Grigson, Food for Friends, Ebury Press, →ISBN, page 12:

     Alternatively, start with a vegetabley first course, follow with pasta, and then serve a salad.

   • 1987 January 28, James Ainsworth, “Just Tasting”, in Punch, page 50:

     Robert Joseph and Oz Clarke are but two who have used fruity and vegetabley, not to say flowery, descriptions of wines.

   • 1996, Carol Gelles, 1,000 Vegetarian Recipes, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2015, →ISBN:

     This is a very vegetabley soup—a real favorite in my family.

   • 1999, Jennifer Robin, Bouzi, Berkeley, Calif.: Creative Arts Book Company, →ISBN, page 49:

     “Chocolate Beast,” he said, choosing between the donuts that had fallen off his shirt leaving a ghastly white smear. I filled my private mug from behind the counter with cold tap and left it on the counter for us both to sip. “You wouldn’t like something vegetabley, would you, to balance that out?”

   • 2003, Muriel Jensen, Man in a Million, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 173:

     “You ate mostly vegetabley stuff.”

   • 2008, Tess Read, The Sprout Book: A Celebration of the Humble Brussels Sprout, Michael O’Mara Books Limited, →ISBN, page 54:

     speak out your love of sprouts! be not ashamed! hide not your love for this greenest of green little vegetabley ball of goodness!

   • 2009, Hilary McKay, Charlie and the Big Birthday Bash, Scholastic Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 39:

     Charlie thought hard about what curry looked like. Orangey, lumpy, vegetabley stuff.

   • 2016, Adam Tabura, A Filipino Kitchen: Traditional Recipes with an Island Twist, Mutual Publishing, →ISBN, page xvii:

     Now that we’re grown up, Grandpa’s kind of food, that’s what we want to eat. Today my favorite foods are soupy, stewy, vegetabley dishes. I tell my brother, “I’m turning into Grandpa.”