Stringy

Definition: Stringy

Stringy

Adjective

1. Lean and sinewy.

2. (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew.

3. Forming viscous or glutinous threads.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stringy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonyms: Stringy

Filament

Adjective: filamentous, filamentiferous, filaceous, filiform; fibrous, fibrillous; thread-like, wiry, stringy, ropy; capillary, capilliform; funicular, wire-drawn;

Tenacity

Adjective: tenacious, tough, strong, resisting, sequacious, stringy, gristly cartilaginous, leathery, coriaceous, tough as whitleather; stubborn. (obstinate).

Crosswords: Stringy

Look at him with that sissy, stringy thing. (The Emperor's New Groove; writing credit: Chris Williams; Mark Dindal)

Strict strong stringy Stephen Stretch slickly snared six sickly silky snakes. (references; author: unknown)

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Books

• Stinky and Stringy : Stem & Bulb Vegetables (Plants We Eat) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Stringy Rugs (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The dark green plants stringy now, and the heavy bolls clutched in the pod.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "stringy": rust red stringy rot ♦ stringy bark ♦ stringy knot ♦ stringy mycelium ♦ stringy rot. Additional references.

Albanian

me fije, fijëzor (threadlike, thready). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مفتول العضلات, ‏نحيل مفتول العضل, ‏ليفي (fibrous), ‏لزج (adherent, adhesive, clingy, glairy, gluey, glutinous, gummy, ropy, slimy, sticky, tacky, tenacious, tough, viscid, viscous), ‏قاسى الألياف, ‏وتري (tendinous, uneven, wiry), ‏خيطي (linear), ‏دبق (adhesive, clingy, fatty, gelation, glutinous, gummy, limy, slimy, sticky, tacky, tenacious, viscid, viscous). (various references)

Bulgarian 

твърд (adamant, adamantine, constant, crusty, decided, determined, dogged, fast, firm, flat, flinty, forceful, gritty, hard, hardhearted, immovable, obstinate, persistent, proof, rigid, rock-ribbed, rocky, sclerotic, sclerous, set, solid, stable, staunch, steadfast, steady, steely, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, swerveless, tenacious, tinny, unfaltering, unflinching, unshakable, unshrinking, unswerving, unwavering), точещ, гъст (bushy, dense, double, full-bodied, gross, heavy, impenetrable, rich, stiff, thick, turbid, viscous), жилав (leathery, lithe, nervy, resilient, rubbery, sinewy, tough, wiry), лепкав (adherent, adhesive, clammy, clayey, gluey, glutinous, gluttonous, gooey, gummy, limy, smeary, sticky, stiff, tacky, tenacious, treacly). (various references)

Czech

svalnatý (beefy, brawny, muscular, nervous, sinewy), vláknitý (fibred, fibriform, fibrillar, fibrinous, filamentary, filar), šlahovitý. (various references)

Danish

sten i en saek (stringy knot), udtrukket knude (stringy knot), rhizomorf (mycelial strand, rhizomorph, stringy mycelium), myceltraad (fungal thread, mycelial strand, mycelium thread, rhizomorph, stringy mycelium), grov hyfe (mycelial strand, rhizomorph, stringy mycelium), froennet raad (stringy rot). (various references)

Dutch

rhizomorf (mycelial strand, rhizomorph, stringy mycelium), myceliumstreng (mycelial strand, rhizomorph, stringy mycelium). (various references)

Finnish

venyvä (elastic resilient). (various references)

French

poisseux (sticky), filiforme, filandreux, englué (sticky), � corde. (various references)

German

klebrig (adhesive, clammily, gluey, glutinous, glutinously, glutinuos, gooey, gummy, ropily, ropy, stickily, sticky, tacky, tenacious, viscous), zäh (dogged, glutinous, hardened, Hardy, leathery, rubbery, slow moving, stiff, stringily, tenacious, tenaciously, tough), strähnig (lank, ragged, straggly). (various references)

Greek 

ριζόμορφα (mycelial strand, rhizomorph, stringy mycelium), ινώδης σήψις (stringy rot), μυκηλιακά κορδόνια (mycelial strand, rhizomorph, stringy mycelium). (various references)

Hebrew 

חוטי (ropy, thready, wire like), סיבי (fibrillar, fibrinous, fibrous). (various references)

Hungarian

rostos (fibred, fibriform, fibrillar, fibrillose, fibrous, filamentary, filamentous, thready), szálkás (barbate, barbed, bony, scratchy), szálas (fibrillar, fibrous, filamentary, filamentous), rágós (leathery, tough), inas (flunkey, footman, gillie, knave, lackey, lacquey, leathery, manservant, man-servant, men-servants, Prentice, scout, servant, sinewy, steward, syce, tendinous, thewy, valet). (various references)

Indonesian

membenang (be interminable). (various references)

Italian

rizomorfa (mycelial strand, rhizomorph, stringy mycelium), nodo con corda (stringy knot), marciume fibroso (stringy rot), cordone grosso di filamenti micelici (mycelial strand, rhizomorph, stringy mycelium), carie fibrosa (stringy rot). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

筋張った (brawny, sinewy). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すじばった (brawny, sinewy). (various references)

Manx

strengagh (stringed), reenagh (tight, tight of breath, tonic, toughish), reen (dogged, hard, hard-and-fast, hard-boiled, hardy, rigid, sinewy, stark, stiff, thick-skinned, thick-skinned of person). (various references)

Pig Latin

ingystray

Portuguese

viscoso (dauby, glairy, gluey, lentous, limy, ropy, semifluid, slimy, sticky, stiff, tacky, tenacious, viscid), pegajoso (clammy, clinging, clingy, cloggy, dauby, gluey, gummy, lentous, limy, ropy, slimy, sticky, tacky, viscid, viscous), filamentoso (filamentary, filamentous, ropy, thready), fibroso (filamentous, sinewy, thready). (various references)

Russian 

волокнистый (fibred, fibriform, fibrillar, fibroid, fibrous, filaceous, filamentary, filamentous, filar, thready). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vrpčast (ribbonlike). (various references)

Spanish

lleno de fibras, fibroso (fibred, fibroid, fibrous, thready). (various references)

Swedish

tådig. (various references)

Turkish

tel tel (fibriform, in fibres, thready), lifli (fibroid, fibrous), kılçıklı (boned, bony, spined, spiny), iplik iplik, ip gibi (thready). (various references)

Ukrainian

тягучий, волокнистий (fibred, fibrillar, fibrillary, fibroid, fibrous, filamentous, nemaline, ropy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

có thớ (fibred, fibrous). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "stringy": stringybark, stringybarks. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stringy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: stingey, streng, strengi, strig, stringe. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: stingy, string, stying, trying, tyring.

-2 letters: girns, girts, grins, grist, grits, rings, sting, tings, trigs, tying.

-3 letters: gins, girn, girt, gist, gits, grin, grit, gyri, nits, rigs, ring, rins, sign, sing, snit, stir, ting, tins, tiny, trig, tyin, yins.

-4 letters: gin, git, ins, its, nit, rig, rin, sin, sir, sit, sri, sty, syn, tin.

+1 letter: stingray, storying, straying, stroying, trysting.

+2 letters: curtsying, estraying, gyrations, oystering, restyling, signatory, stingrays, synergist.

+3 letters: curtseying, destroying, eyestrings, generosity, gyniatries, laryngitis, oysterings, panegyrist, restudying, roystering, skywriting, sportingly, sterlingly, stirringly, strikingly, stringency, synergetic, synergists, trustingly.

+4 letters: arrestingly, astringency, cosignatory, courtesying, designatory, esterifying, grandiosity, hairstyling, insurgently, keystroking, mistrysting, overstaying, panegyrists, pharyngitis, proselyting, singularity, skywritings, sovereignty, startlingly, stratifying, stringently, stringybark, synergistic, tapestrying, travestying, trichogynes, trypsinogen, tyrannising, yesternight.