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tallowy, a.|ˈtæləʊɪ|
Also Sc. taughy.
[f. tallow n. + -y.]
1. Having the nature or properties of tallow; sebaceous.
c1440Promp. Parv. 486/1 Talwy, ceposus. 1530Palsgr. 327/1 Talowye, grasseux. 1594T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. 112 Oyle, or some other tallowy and moyst matter. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 8 June, The tallowey rancid mass called butter. 1904R. J. Farrer Garden Asia 130 The tallowy noisomeness of the temple smells.
b. Smeared with tallow; greasy.
1867N. Macleod Starling xxiv, I assure you he has a taughy fleece to scoor in this parish!
2. Resembling tallow in colour or complexion.
1832[implied in tallowiness]. 1847Le Fanu T. O'Brien 170 A tallowy sensual face. 1883Stevenson Treas. Isl. i. ii, He was a pale, tallowy creature. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 677 The integument became dense, tallowy in colour and otherwise changed.
3. Of a beast: Abounding in tallow, fat.
1495Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. ix. xix. (W. de W.) 357 In Nouembre beestes wexen fatte and talowy and namely swyne. 1818Blackw. Mag. III. 528 The bullock..lays himself down, with a lengthening groan, once more into his tallowy laziness. |