Grindy

//ˈɡɹaɪndi// adj, slang

adj, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling or characteristic of grinding. informal

    "a grindy noise"

  2. 2
    Involving a lot of repetition in order to progress. informal

    "HGM’s writers have spent time in the grindiest of grindy Korean and Japanese free-to-plays, but Free Realms is something new and different and better."

Example

More examples

"And “Old P” had stuck, for the whole of the year that Tony had had her, as her grinding day by day got grindier and her spluttering splutterier."

Etymology

From grind + -y.

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