breadcrumby
English
editEtymology
editFrom breadcrumb + -y.
Adjective
editbreadcrumby (comparative more breadcrumby, superlative most breadcrumby)
- Resembling breadcrumbs, especially in texture.
- 2005, Ben Canaider, Greg Duncan Powell, Cooking under the influence: food to drink to, page 70:
- Use the 'pulse' button to turn these ingredients into a coarse sort of breadcrumby, dry mixture.
- Scattered with breadcrumbs.
- 1968, Anthony Burgess, Enderby outside, page 99:
- He changed into these in a dark breadcrumby cubbyhole at the rear of the shop.