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stringy, a.|ˈstrɪŋɪ|
[f. string n. + -y1.]
1. a. Resembling string or fibre; consisting of string-like pieces. Chiefly applied to vegetable or animal tissues, esp. meat when its fibres have become tough.
1669W. Jackson in Phil. Trans. IV. 1061 Mosses..are a kind of Moorish boggy ground, very stringy, and fatt. 1693Evelyn De La Quint. Compl. Gard. II. 155 The Radishes that are sown on hot Beds..are more apt to grow hollow and stringy. Ibid. Dict., Sticky or Stringy, is said of Roots, when not kindly or running to Seed. 1748Anson's Voy. ii. i. 165 We usually preferred the tops of the turnips to the roots, which were often stringy. 1829G. Head Forest Scenes N. Amer. 224 As to the woodpecker..His flesh was.. lean and stringy. 1863Hawthorne Our Old Home, Glimpses Eng. Poverty II. 189 Bits and gobbets of lean meat,..tough and stringy morsels. 1884Manch. Exam. 12 Nov. 8/2 Dates which are rather stringy than sweet.
b. spec. of timber (see quot.).
1843Civil Engin. & Arch. Jrnl. VI. 406/1 Deals that, when acted upon by the saw, do not form sawdust, but are torn into long strings or fibres, and, on that account, termed ‘stringy’.
c. Designating defective cotton or wool, esp. cotton which has been imperfectly scutched.
1902W. I. Hannan Textile Fibres Commerce 115 The cotton which is struck off by the beater blades of the scutcher should be removed away from the beater's course immediately; any delay at this stage may cause the fibres to become contorted into very curious shapes, and such cotton is then termed stringy. 1932E. Midgeley Technical Terms Textile Trade II. 215 Stringy, wool partially matted in fibre and drawn into a slightly ropy form. The stringing of wool is usually due to inefficient scouring. 1950Mercury Dict. Textile Terms 481/1 Stringy cotton. This is a defective cotton produced by ginning wet or unripe seed cotton, or sometimes by a wrong adjustment of the brushes that take the lint from the ginsaws.
2. Of a person, the body, etc.: Thin; exhibiting sinew rather than flesh. Of hair: thin, tending to hang in strands. Also Comb.
1833Sir F. B. Head Bubbles Brunnen Nassau (1834) 316 The stringy, weather-beaten features of the mountain peasant, were changed for countenances pulpy, fleshy, and evidently better fed. 1838D. Jerrold Men of Char. I. ii. iii. 48 A stringy little man of about fifty. 1879Meredith Egoist xxi, Rather pale and stringy from his cold swim. 1956J. Cheever in New Yorker 14 Jan. 26/1 Her light hair was long and stringy. 1981P. Theroux Mosquito Coast xviii. 234 The stringy-haired man.
3. Of liquid or viscous matter: Containing or forming glutinous thread-like parts; ropy.
1694Addison Virg. Georg. iv. 49 For this they hoard up glew, whose clinging drops, Like pitch, or bird-lime, hang in stringy ropes. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 1266 (Varnish) Keep it boiling until it feels strong and stringy between the fingers. 1846Mechanics' Mag. 31 Oct. 427/2 When the glass was disposed to be wavy (ondé) or stringy (cordé) an iron tool was introduced into it. 1875J. Priestley in Phil. Trans. CLXVI. 509 A stringy mucus.
4. Of the voice: ? Resembling the tone of a stretched string.
1820Q. Mus. Mag. II. 257 note, The effect of Mr. Bartleman's voice is often stringy, and of Mr. Braham's almost always either reedy or overbroke. |