Meaning

(rare) Resembling or characteristic of chewing gum..

Definitions by Sense

1. (rare) Resembling or characteristic of chewing gum.
2. (rare) Covered with chewing gum.

Example Sentences

“I’d thought of dropping that. It’s so cheap and chewing-gummy.”

But if ash is plastic, sort of “chewing-gummy,” as it contacts the hot surface—chances are it will stay there.

Bending my head, I worked to extricate my fork from a long chewing-gummy strand of Mozzarella cheese.

He breathed chewing-gummy breaths over Christopher, and Christopher liked him very much.

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.

‘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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• more chewing-gummy
• most chewing-gummy

When Should You Use Chewing-gummy?

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

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