chewing-gummy

English

Etymology

From chewing gum +‎ -y.

Adjective

chewing-gummy (comparative more chewing-gummy, superlative most chewing-gummy)

1. (rare) Resembling or characteristic of chewing gum.
   • 1914, Samuel Hopkins Adams, The Clarion, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, page 104:

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

   • 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:

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

   • 1967, Sue Kaufman, Diary of a Mad Housewife, New York, N.Y.: Random House, page 66:

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

   • 1973, Prudence Andrew, Mister O’Brien, Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson Inc., →ISBN, page 87:

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

   • 1973, Cecil Beaton, The Unexpurgated Beaton: The Cecil Beaton Diaries as They Were Written, London: Phoenix, published 2003, →ISBN, page 378:

     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.

   • 2000, Pamela Scobie, Chasing Faces, Oxford, Oxon: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 90:

     ‘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.

   • 2003, Catherine Forde, Fat Boy Swim, London: Egmont Books Limited, →ISBN, page 164:

     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.

   • 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:

     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.

2. (rare) Covered with chewing gum.
   • 1995, Nancy Lyon, Scatter the Mud: A Traveller’s Medley, Montreal, Que.: Nuage Editions, →ISBN, page 24:

     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.

   • 2012, Charity Norman, After the Fall, London: Allen & Unwin, published 2013, →ISBN, page 47:

     Throughout his toddlerhood Charlie dragged it along like Linus in Peanuts; towed it through muddy farmyards and chewing-gummy streets.

   • 2016, Susie Day, The Secrets of Billie Bright, London: Puffin, →ISBN, page 233:

     ‘[…] 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.

   • 2017, Méira Cook, Once More with Feeling, [Toronto, Ont.]: House of Anansi Press Inc., →ISBN, page 169:

     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.