crackery

comparative more crackery · superlative most crackery · alternative cracker-y

1. Resembling or characteristic of crackers.

   (The thickness of a chapati has a lot to do with its flavor. The thinner each one is, the more nutlike and crackery it tastes.)

   1978 September 3, David Haenke, “The chapati is an Indian cousin of the tortilla”, in Minneapolis Tribune, volume CXII, number 87, Minneapolis, Minn., page 15F, column 4

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   CRACKERS / Is rather a dry subject, but when they dissolve between your lips, they have a pronounced crackery taste, a fresh wheaty flavor.

   1894 September 25, A. D. Cooper, “Crackers”, in Asheville Daily Citizen, volume X, number 122, Asheville, N.C., front page, column 2

   Hawaii is the island to get Saloon Pilot Crackers, made by the Hilo Macaroni Co. They’re four inches in diameter and have a crackery taste all their own.

   1975 October 5, Connie Sherley, “Travel Notes”, in The Austin American-Statesman, volume 51, number 91, Austin, Tex., page D13, column 1

   Greek pizza, in case you aren’t aware of these fine distinctions, is cooked in a shallow iron pan; and either because of the pan or certain ingredients in the dough, it develops a featherweight, yeasty crust with a crackery taste.

   1987 March 29, Jane and Michael Stern, “Eats of Eden”, in Northeast (The Hartford Courant), Hartford, Conn., page 21, column 2

   She had not been in these waters since she was a young girl, but it rushed back, the sea’s hypnotic boil, the smell of blood, weather and salt, fish heads, spruce smoke and reeking armpits, the rattle of wash-ball rocks in hissing wave, turrs, the crackery taste of brewis, the bedroom under the eaves.

   1993, E. Annie Proulx [i.e., Edna Ann Proulx], “Cast Away”, in The Shipping News, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →ISBN, page 33

   These thicker pretzels have an unpleasant, overbaked flavor. On the other hand, the Thins, as the package claimed, have a “crackery” taste. They’re like pretzels with a hint of Ritz-cracker flavor thrown in.

   1997 May 22, Lorrie Guttman, “‘Pretzel experience’?”, in Tallahassee Democrat, Tallahassee, Fla., page 1D