bambooey

/bæmˈbuːi/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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Meaning

adj

Informal

"Old Percy, with fixed, mad blue eye and a rusty scythe, was attacking the "Japanese creeper" bambooey plant which had shot up green in the alley by the drive."
"There were rows and rows of shelves of books from the floor to the ceiling that came out between the windows and in the gloomy bit at the end of each row they'd put a bambooey-looking table with a jungly green plant […]"

From bamboo + -ey.

more bambooey (comparative) most bambooey (superlative)

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Questions

How do you pronounce bambooey?

The recorded pronunciation is /bæmˈbuːi/.

What does bambooey mean?

Resembling or characteristic of bamboo.

Where does bambooey come from?

From bamboo + -ey.

How to pronounce bambooey

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