ricey
/ˈɹaɪsi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.03 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Resembling or characteristic of rice.
Example Sentences
- "Nor may the fleeteſt hawk, untired, explore / Where end the ricey groves that crown the ſhore."
- "We have first the exhaustive condition; this may be through the person living on bad food—too much ricey food and too little animal;[…]."
- "Sardono told Pak Tempo in Europe, “listen, you’re not going to like the food here at first, but you have to transcend it. You can’t always be desiring some familiar, ricey food, because you’ll be anxious and alienated.[…]”"
- "Also, there’s a lovely risotto recipe that combines rice, lobster, cream, and Scotch, which I find extraordinarily delicious and far removed from most of the ricey dishes we are usually given with lobster."
- "These hawker stalls are open dawn till dusk sometimes too, thus providing excellent places to start the day, perhaps with a bowl of johk or khao tom – a ricey porridge to which all manner of extras may be added."
- "Ricey pancake / This is a useful reworking of the egg-rice partnership, for when you have less rice but plenty of eggs. It’s a kind of omelettey, ricey pancake, and can be pleasingly topped with other goodies or even rolled up around them like a wrap."
Etymology
From rice + -y.