Meaning

Resembling or characteristic of buckwheat..

Definitions by Sense

1. Resembling or characteristic of buckwheat.
2. With buckwheat.

Example Sentences

“There is not anything this side of hell as mean as a licensed saloon, and I would rather have five uncompromising than 500 wishy wash, buckwheaty men to fight this damnable curse.”

We have just gotten in a car of genuine old-fashioned dark buckwheat. This buckwheat is real old-fashioned kind; it’s pure; it is not mixed with wheat flour, nor corn flour, nor anything else; it’s the regular old buckwheaty buckwheat and you’ll like it.

New Buckwheat, that good old-fashioned kind of dark Buckwheat that has the real buckwheaty taste, three pounds for 10 cents.

Fall-gathered honey, with sufficient buckwheat to give it a buckwheaty flavor.

Steamer Rugs, handy and useful on land and sea. They give a pillowy softness to sofas. A luxury when “porching.” Fastidious travellers throw aside the soggy, buckwheaty blankets of Pullmans and use their Steamer Rugs instead.

More and Better Buckwheat Cakes by using flour that contains more real BUCKWHEAT than any other brand. It’s / morning glory / BuckwheaT / self-rising / Such cakes have that almost-forgotten, old-fashioned “buckwheaty” flavor.

I had a few little tricks along for the young ones, anyway; but I don’t deny that I had Ada’s cakes in mind too. There was a fine buckwheaty snap in the air when I got up.

We experience a gustatory thrill when we hear of Dutch pancakes which are about one-eighth of an inch in thickness, with a delicious buckwheaty, buttery and sugary tang.

Word Forms

• more buckwheaty
• most buckwheaty

When Should You Use Buckwheaty?

Use buckwheaty when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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