maizy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of maize.
Example Sentences
- "Corn, used in most mass-market Canadian beer, has a sweet and maizy flavor that shows clearly when used in high proportions."
- "They were crunchy as pretzels with a maizy taste that was bread-crummy at first and then sweet."
- "Your mouth can’t be real, unless God, who doesn’t exist, has performed a miracle and sent to Earth not a bearded savior but a pair of strawberry lips and teeth as crookedly perfect as wave-battered rocks under a maizy sun where no man could fear death."
- "Desert dabs of red and ochre, alternating with a maizy gold and the blue-green of eucalyptus, take you immediately into the dazzling land."
Etymology
From maize + -y.