stringy
/ˈstɹɪŋi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.52 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Composed of, or resembling, string or strings.
adj
Of a sighting, unlikely to be accurate; probably based on a misidentification, whether innocent or deliberate.
Example Sentences
- "The meat was quite stringy."
- "The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it."
- ""I know, I know," said the man who had been addressed as Peeble, a nervous, stringy, dried-up person as he now appeared in the light."
- "The context refers to how you use an expression. You've actually already seen some contextual operations with numbers and strings. When you do numbery sorts of things, you get numeric results. When you do stringy sorts of things, you get string results."
- "There are few birders who have not had stringy ticks on their lists at some stage."
- "That was how I dipped out on a Tree Pipit! Which, of course, balanced up the stringy Hawfinch, so fair enough."
Etymology
From string + -y.