Buckwheaty
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Resembling or characteristic of buckwheat.
"“There is not anything this side of hell as mean as a licensed saloon, and I would rather have five uncompromising than 500 wishy wash, buckwheaty men to fight this damnable curse.”"
- 2 With buckwheat.
"Now she is Frederick, all valleys and hills, / The Linganore driving the old water-mills; / Now she is Garrett—most rugged of maids / A-wing o’er the bloom of the buckwheaty glades, / Tiptoe on peaks where the Great Savage thrills / The heart that looks off from its huge colonnades / To the winding Potomac, that trails like a band / Of silver-spun ribbon across the green land."
Example
More examples"“There is not anything this side of hell as mean as a licensed saloon, and I would rather have five uncompromising than 500 wishy wash, buckwheaty men to fight this damnable curse.”"
Etymology
From buckwheat + -y.
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