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powdery

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Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
16
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈpaʊdəɹi/(US)

Definition of powdery

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Of or pertaining to powder.
    “powdery drink”
    “We were plowing through great deeps of powdery alkali dust that rose in thick clouds and floated across the plain like smoke from a burning house. We were coated with it like millers; so were the coach, the mules, the mail-bags, the driver—we and the sage-brush and the other scenery were all one monotonous color.”
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adj

  1. Of or pertaining to powder.
    “powdery drink”
    “We were plowing through great deeps of powdery alkali dust that rose in thick clouds and floated across the plain like smoke from a burning house. We were coated with it like millers; so were the coach, the mules, the mail-bags, the driver—we and the sage-brush and the other scenery were all one monotonous color.”
  2. Having a lot of powder.

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Etymology

From powder + -y.

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