crawfishy

English

Etymology

From crawfish +‎ -y.

Adjective

crawfishy (comparative more crawfishy, superlative most crawfishy)

With crawfish.
- 1938, Allen Tate, The Fathers, Denver, Colo.: Alan Swallow, published 1960, page 263:
  My head towards the current, I let the crawfishy water run into my mouth, swallowing a little of it at a time.
- 2014, David Luck, Southern Fried Life, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 8:
  Debbie sniffed the aroma in the air coming from the kitchen. “I smell somethin’ crawfishy that wants to add more pounds to my already voluptuous curves.”
- 2015, Mick Carlon, Girl Singer, Fredonia, N.Y.: Leapfrog Press, →ISBN, page 66:
  I wasn’t in the mood for something crawfishy or filled with alligator meat early in the morning.
Resembling or characteristic of crawfish.
- 1966, Joan Williams, Old Powder Man, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., →LCCN, page 162:
  The blue misty look rose over green tents; there was the wood smoke smell and one of cooking; rain puddles still steaming dry in shady washed-out places caused a smell like flood, a crawfishy smell of something old, moist and mysterious.
- 1984 April 29, Jim Strader, “Flavored baits make scents”, in The Courier-Journal, volume 258, number 120, Louisville, Ky., page C 18, column 1:
  Fish Formula “Crawfish” is the latest in their line of products, and it does have a crawfishy smell.
- 2012, Rocky Leplin, Humphrey’s Long Journey Away From the Sea: A Verse Novel, San Francisco, Calif.: Raccoon Press, published 2016 June, →ISBN, page 51:
  What to eat? Humphrey pondered the question / As his cavernous belly a gurgle did make, / Resounding so loud in the water nearby / Two crawfish were sure that their eardrums would break. // Be that as it may, they weren’t in danger / Of being consumed for their crawfishy flavor. / Though related by crust to the diminutive krill, / The dirth^[sic] of them made them too meager to savor.

Synonyms

crayfishy