Watercressy

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    With watercress.

    "Did these French trout expect me to dress my fly in garlic or tomato sauce before they would look at it? For that trout must be in such a stream—so clear, so sparkling, so flowing, so curvy, so watercressy—was as clear as that the Republic is a dreadful come-down from the Empire."

Synonyms

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watercressed

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"Did these French trout expect me to dress my fly in garlic or tomato sauce before they would look at it? For that trout must be in such a stream—so clear, so sparkling, so flowing, so curvy, so watercressy—was as clear as that the Republic is a dreadful come-down from the Empire."

Etymology

From watercress + -y.

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