maizy

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1. Resembling or characteristic of maize.

   They were crunchy as pretzels with a maizy taste that was bread-crummy at first and then sweet.

   2006, Adam Green, Satsuma Sun-mover, Lazy Gramophone Press, →ISBN, page 96

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   Corn, used in most mass-market Canadian beer, has a sweet and maizy flavor that shows clearly when used in high proportions.

   1997, Jamie MacKinnon, The Great Lakes Beer Guide: Eastern Region: An Affectionate, Opinionated Guide to the Beers of Michigan, New York, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Quebec and Vermont, The Boston Mills Press, →ISBN, page 49

   Your mouth can’t be real, unless God, who doesn’t exist, has performed a miracle and sent to Earth not a bearded savior but a pair of strawberry lips and teeth as crookedly perfect as wave-battered rocks under a maizy sun where no man could fear death.

   2009, Darrin Doyle, The Girl Who Ate Kalamazoo, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Griffin, published 2010, →ISBN, page 5

   Desert dabs of red and ochre, alternating with a maizy gold and the blue-green of eucalyptus, take you immediately into the dazzling land.

   2021 June 13, Laura Cumming, “Of dreaming and nightmares”, in The New Review (The Observer), page 30