chewing-gummy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chewing-gummy
form: most chewing-gummy
Etymology: From chewing gum + -y.
Senses: examples: text: “I’d thought of dropping that. It’s so cheap and chewing-gummy.”
ref: 1914, Samuel Hopkins Adams, The Clarion, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, page 104:
text: But if ash is plastic, sort of “chewing-gummy,” as it contacts the hot surface—chances are it will stay there.
ref: 1960 April, R C Bellas, “Industry’s battle with fuel ash”, in Power, volume 104, number 4, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, Inc, page 84:
text: Bending my head, I worked to extricate my fork from a long chewing-gummy strand of Mozzarella cheese.
ref: 1967, Sue Kaufman, Diary of a Mad Housewife, New York, N.Y.: Random House, page 66:
text: He breathed chewing-gummy breaths over Christopher, and Christopher liked him very much.
ref: 1973, Prudence Andrew, Mister O’Brien, Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson Inc., →ISBN, page 87:
text: But the visit was interesting for after lunch (a bit of nonsense talked about how brilliant the cook was – he was Margot Fonteyn’s chauffeur for 17 years, a dreary meal with the main course, veal, covered in sizzling chewing-gummy cheese, and how we, Irene Worth and I, should go and thank him in the kitchen. ‘Don’t tip him,’ said Jane, ‘but he’d be so pleased to be thanked’), we went to the sitting room for coffee and cigars, and K. with the minimum of interruption from Jane, held forth in a most delightful way.
ref: 1973, Cecil Beaton, The Unexpurgated Beaton: The Cecil Beaton Diaries as They Were Written, London: Phoenix, published 2003, →ISBN, page 378:
text: ‘This is very difficult to eat!’ Gran smacked at the straggling threads of chewing-gummy cheese connecting her mouth to the wobbly triangle of ham-and-pineapple.
ref: 2000, Pamela Scobie, Chasing Faces, Oxford, Oxon: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 90:
text: It was hard enough to explain in words a skill that came so naturally to Jimmy, without having some glaiket doolally lassie breathing her chewing-gummy, nicotine breath all over him.
ref: 2003, Catherine Forde, Fat Boy Swim, London: Egmont Books Limited, →ISBN, page 164:
text: The local nomenclature is totally confused, e.g. in Ghana the name ‘Akassa’ refers to the stringy chewing-gummy texture of the fruit with latex and is applied to most of the following species, although the Forest Department has tried to standardise its application to C. albidum.
ref: 2006, William Hawthorne, Carel Jongkind, Woody Plants of Western African Forests: A Guide to the Forest Trees, Shrubs and Lianes from Senegal to Ghana, Kew Publishing, →ISBN, page 104, column 2:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of chewing gum.
examples: text: As I was squeezing out the subway car at Times Square, my red Papagallo slipped off my foot and the subway doors closed. I hopped around on the chewing-gummy platform, waving my arms at the crowd inside the car.
ref: 1995, Nancy Lyon, Scatter the Mud: A Traveller’s Medley, Montreal, Que.: Nuage Editions, →ISBN, page 24:
text: Throughout his toddlerhood Charlie dragged it along like Linus in Peanuts; towed it through muddy farmyards and chewing-gummy streets.
ref: 2012, Charity Norman, After the Fall, London: Allen & Unwin, published 2013, →ISBN, page 47:
text: ‘[…] I’m going to smell like that pink mouthwash for ever.’ Billie knew what he meant; she had a chewing-gummy slick on her hands that just wouldn’t go.
ref: 2016, Susie Day, The Secrets of Billie Bright, London: Puffin, →ISBN, page 233:
text: I want to fall down and press my cheek to the grimy, spilled-juice and chewing-gummy mall floor where people have been treading all day long.
ref: 2017, Méira Cook, Once More with Feeling, [Toronto, Ont.]: House of Anansi Press Inc., →ISBN, page 169:
glosses: Covered with chewing gum.