cornmealy

comparative more cornmealy · superlative most cornmealy

1. Resembling or characteristic of cornmeal.

   She slid a glance with a trace of longing at my one remaining hush puppy. I forked it into my mouth and chewed it down, letting the pleasure of its cornmealy goodness show on my face.

   2016, Anna Castle, Flash Memory (Lost Hat, Texas; 2), →ISBN

2. With cornmeal.

   “Tamales. Just unpeel ’em out of the husk. There’s napkins on top.” They were hot and cornmealy and full of meat.

   1994, Donald McCaig, Nop’s Hope, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 24

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   Cleaning steamers sucks. You have to put them in great vats of water with cornmeal and let them sit. […] I pulled my hands out of the cornmealy water, dried them on my apron and said to my mother that I was taking a little break.

   1985, Sandra Scoppettone, Playing Murder, New York, N.Y.: Harper Keypoint, published 1987, →ISBN, pages 119 and 121

   I was far more taken with the pastry chef’s nightly dinner rolls: cornmealy anadama, rustic country Italian, soft potato flecked with spring chives.

   2000, Gourmet, volume 60, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast, page 150