peely
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From peel + -y.
Base: peel
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more peely
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most peely
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Tending to peel.
pos: adj
examples: Rough, “peely” arms, shoulders, legs—See Angel Skin soothe, soften, cool sensitive wind-and-sun irritated skin. Rough flakiness dissolves off.
It is paper-thin and when old, peels away to reveal the richer-coloured young bark beneath. It is particularly peely on the branches especially at their junctions with the main stem where it often collects in dense, loose bunches.
No, PVC lattice won’t age like wood. Would I use it? Honestly, probably not, because I like peely paint and rotted edges. But I know not everybody is quite so romantic, and in this case I think little harm is done.
In the swarmy swimming summer / Off the ageing garden shed / I picked the peely paint / And filled in all the gaps / With fluorescent day-glo felt-tip red! / And then got sent to bed! / (It wasn’t to everybody’s taste)
Machine-gun-toting soldiers eyed us suspiciously from barricades and peely-paint-covered guard shacks.
The deck was all salt-bleached, pocked and barnacled. Rust around the cabin doors. Faded canvas on the lifeboats. Peely paint on the rows of steamer chairs.
the painted front of Someone’s Beloved Threads was all peely paint and old wood showing through. The sun at the top of the door was losing its sunface around the edges. “Erico,” I said. “I think you should paint again, on the doorway part.”
But she did strike up a relationship with a widow woman who lived in a tumble-down, peely paint, wood-frame shack down by the creek past the railroad track.
A peely-paint old porch chair and a vintage clock are other relics that seem to belie the advance of time.
It was really badly decorated – all peely patterned wallpaper and threadbare furniture.
What you’ll see are flowers, flowers everywhere, plus trellis and picket fence patterns, natural stone floors, wicker and wrought iron furniture, complete with peely paint or a patina of rust.
The replicated cribs, painted lamps, rocking chairs and dollhouses look straight out of grandma’s attic. Everything, however, including the peely mix-and-match wallpaper, is just made to appear old—even the chenille hangars, pillows and cuddly teddy bears.
Though I pull the panels back and feel the wall very carefully, I don’t notice anything except a peely place in the wallpaper. I peel it some more, but underneath is merely another pattern of wallpaper.
‘He was living in this crummy little flat,’ Lin said. ‘Peely wallpaper, and brown stains in the bath.[…]’
The peely thing was still there, but I had eventually stopped picking at it, and it didn’t bother me much anymore. New, uninvited additions to my face were visiting more frequently . . . another age spot wasn’t the end of the world. Then I got the call. “Ms. Fuller, um, we, um, got your biopsy back and it’s um, skin cancer.”
While I waited for her to finish chewing, I propped my elbows on the little kitchen table and took a slow gander around at peely wall paper^([sic]) some ancestral idiot had glued over bead board walls, the wallpaper in turn filmed with decades of soot and grease.
Then Michael slotted his key into the lock of their peely-paint blue front door, smushed her into the wall and raced up the stairs ahead of her to snag the good armchair, cackling triumphantly all the way.
I stand outside, looking at our house. The paint is peely and the roof isn’t straight.
As someone with breakable, peely nails, I stan HARD for the entire Color Therapy collection — it helps my otherwise fragile nails grow long and strong.
Inside it was all peely wallpaper and fast-food garbage.
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of a peel.
pos: adj
examples: Nut-cracking goes on in a perfect fusillade, and oranges are peeled to an extent that sends a Covent Garden Market fragrance through the house, swifter than fall the peely flakes from the gallery above.
The fundamental impression to be gained from tasting comminuted products is that they taste “peely” and have an aroma that is associated more with the peel than the juice.
Here, the flavor researcher runs into an imitation-creating problem involving two distinct grape flavors – the winey character of European varieties and the peely note of the Concord.
Cell Beverages, a 15% juice product that incorporates whole-juice cells that make this beverage “more pleasant than peely type products.”
That time was Italian: mostly lasagna, spaghetti with meatballs, spumoni ice cream for dessert. What are these little green peely things in there?
Furthermore, carefully balancing the cold-pressed oil components with respect to their essence oil components is essential in providing a juice flavor that is not too “peely” or “flowery”.
Flavour profiles: Vanilla baker’s delite - typically creamy, candy type. Orange baker’s delite - Very juicy, peely type with fruity undertones.
[…] today, people visualise not some item made from damsons or quinces, or some sticky beaten mass of boiled sugar and orange, but the peely, golden conserve, easy to spread and sweetly astringent to the taste, that the Keiller family laboured hard to promote.
She held up a tomato with a peely skin and neatly slipped the skin off in one piece and then squeezed the extra juice into an empty ice-cream bucket.
Peely – Usually referring to citrus, peely means aldehydic. Citral is the peely note found in lemon, and decanal and other aldehydes contribute to the peely note of orange.
(4Z)-4-Nonenal and (6E)-6-nonenal are minor components of yuzu only (Miyazawa et al., 2009), and have never been detected in oils of other Citrus species. (6E)-6-nonenal, with its powerful peely, citrusy, and albedo-like odor, is a key ingredient of the yuzu aroma. (2E,6Z)-2,6-nonadienal, reminiscent of cucumbers, was described in clementines by Chisholm et al. (2003).
Paper birch (Betula papyrifera) is found in the colder northern and interior portions of the Pacific Northwest, with its white peely-papery bark, sharply pointed leaves, and dense short catkins.
I stand by the Rayburn, holding the baby, gazing into its folded face. The eyes are closed, and there seems to be a crazy amount of extra skin around them. It looks incredibly old rather than incredibly young. Tiny peely flakes cover its forehead and nose, and peeking out from Eden’s jacket are a few spare black hairs.
[“Descriptor name”:] Lemon-fresh [“Descriptor definition”:] Peely, juicy aroma associated with fresh squeezed yellow lemon
[“Descriptor”:] peely/waxy [“Sensorial Definition”:] aroma associated with the peel of orange fruits (orange coloured outer layer)
Monoterpene aldehydes / Neral / Odor: Sweet citrus lemon peely / Taste: Lemon-like
Peely/peel oil aroma
[“Aroma”:] Fruity-citrus [“Description”:] A citric, sour, astringent, slightly sweet, peely, and somewhat floral aromatic that may include lemons, limes, grapefruits, or oranges [“Reference scale”:] 4.5: lemon peel and lime peel 7.5: grapefruit peel
Chuck grapefruit into the equation and it feels a bit like a battle of the bitters. Yet it’s that sticky, pulpy, peely, pectin-rich marmalade that gives rise to aromas resembling Aperitivos, Amari, the Negroni [Amaros, p.224], the tooth-loosening Vin de Paille [Dessert Wine, p.164] and the racy grapefruit and orange zesty outline of an Italian Grillo [White Wine, p.135].
gloss: Intended to be peeled.
pos: adj
tags: rare
examples: Oranges’ skins are more peely than pare-y.
An article in the New York Times dated 19 July 2005 announces that laser-coded “Tattooed Fruit Is on the Way,” and that it will bring “an end to those tiny stubborn stickers that have to be picked, scraped, or yanked off.” Hmm. Were those “stubborn stickers” really so annoying? Well, the peely labels may have had their day—but let it be remember that in that day, Paul was an Early and an Active Riser.
That winter McDonald’s was running one of their big prize contests—the ones with the little peel-y things on the sides of drink cups and fry containers. While my sister and I were enjoying our Happy Meals, my mother peeled off the tab on the side of her drink. Her eyes widened when she looked at it. “Is this right?” she asked Dad. “Is this what I think it is?” She didn’t want to get her hopes up so, she went to the front counter for confirmation. She was right: A $100 prize was stuck to the side of my mom’s McDonald’s cup!
What he was really interested in was the little gold peely things that came off when you opened up a pack of smokes.
Kids will come hopping for these peely fruit-flavored snacks that offer great tastes and fun
gloss: Having a peel.
pos: adj
tags: rare
examples: Primates process protected fruits by holding them in the hand(s) and removing the peel with the incisors. The ability of primates to consume unprotected fruits is restricted by competition from birds whereas texture prevents birds from consuming peely fruits.
They may possess a thin skin, which separates with difficulty from the flesh, or a thick layer that peels easily from the flesh and is, therefore, best called a peel. Only fleshy fruits are intended for consumption by vertebrates. In the South American rain-forest, Janson (1983) found that skinned fruits were consumed mainly by birds whereas anthropoid primates appeared to concentrate on peely fruits. It is quite possible that the spatulate incisor, distinctive of anthropoid primates, evolved in the common ancestor for opening peely fruit (Lucas, 1989a).
“[…] Now, why don’t you and Sunshine and Hop-to-It sit down quietly and have a banana? Be sure to put the peel in the trash can.” “A real banana? Oh, Mommy, I just love those really silly peely things. I could eat them forever and ever!”
Morning arrived like a monken drunky. *Hic* Gimme banannnn, bana, banananana…peely fruit! Oh, and turn off that big yellow light!
Bananas / [image] / Eternal spring chicken Gordon Strachan (pictured here with the world’s largest banana split) famously lives on a diet of the curvy peely fruit.
Related words: orange-peely
peely-wally
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