marmaladyadj.
/ˈmɑːməleɪdi/, U.S. /ˈmɑrməˌleɪdi/ Resembling or suggestive of marmalade, esp. in sweetness, stickiness, or colour; (also) covered in or full of marmalade.
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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sweetness > [adjective]
sweetc888
sootc950
doucea1350
sweetlya1350
softa1398
lusciousc1420
dulcet1440
mellite?1440
sugarishc1450
dulce1508
ambrosiana1522
figgy?1549
nut-sweet1586
nectaredc1595
dulcid1596
marmalady1602
fat1610
unsharp1611
unsour1611
marmalade1617
dulcorous1676
dulceous1688
saccharaceous1689
sugar-candyish1852
saccharic1945
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > preserve > [adjective] > resembling marmalade
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1602 T. Dekker Blurt Master-Constable sig. D3v The Frenchman you see has a soft Mermaladie heart.
1847 Metropolitan Mag. Oct. 209 A pack of uncivilized lads just let loose from school,..daubing their marmaladey fingers over the title-pages of a score or more of unique black-letter tomes.
1920 J. Joyce Let. 3 Jan. (1957) I. 135 Nausikaa is written in a namby-pamby jammy marmalady..style.
1960 P. Coleridge Running Footsteps 59 A clipped marmaladey moustache.
1993 Wine May 69/1 Chateau Lamothe Guignard 1989, Sauternes 2eme Cru... ‘Pungent aroma; almost marmaladey, good, positive, rindy flavour’ was Claudia's precise but positive verdict.
2013 Financial Times 2 Feb. 38 A vast, untapped reservoir of emotion, hidden in plain view, in the way we eat this bacon-and-eggy, marmaladey meal.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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