vegetabley

comparative more vegetabley · superlative most vegetabley

1. alternativeAlternative form of vegetably.

   “You ate mostly vegetabley stuff.”

   2003, Muriel Jensen, Man in a Million, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 173

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   Emilia sits enthroned on the divan in the hall, wound up in telephone cords and wires, grasping the receiver in both floury (or fishy, or meaty, or vegetabley) hands, puce in the face with excitement, shrieking condolences and counsel and arranging appointments with one and all of her family at the top of her voice.

   1933 September, [Winifred,] Lady Fortescue, “Business—À La Mode Provençale”, in Blackwood’s Magazine, volume CCXXXIV, number MCCCCXV, page 397

   Alternatively, start with a vegetabley first course, follow with pasta, and then serve a salad.

   1987, Sophie Grigson, Food for Friends, Ebury Press, →ISBN, page 12

   Robert Joseph and Oz Clarke are but two who have used fruity and vegetabley, not to say flowery, descriptions of wines.

   1987 January 28, James Ainsworth, “Just Tasting”, in Punch, page 50

   This is a very vegetabley soup—a real favorite in my family.

   1996, Carol Gelles, 1,000 Vegetarian Recipes, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2015, →ISBN

   “Chocolate Beast,” he said, choosing between the donuts that had fallen off his shirt leaving a ghastly white smear. I filled my private mug from behind the counter with cold tap and left it on the counter for us both to sip. “You wouldn’t like something vegetabley, would you, to balance that out?”

   1999, Jennifer Robin, Bouzi, Berkeley, Calif.: Creative Arts Book Company, →ISBN, page 49