tomato-y
English
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edittomato-y (comparative more tomato-y, superlative most tomato-y)
- Alternative form of tomatoey.
- 1978 November, Ellen Stein, “Dining Out: Michigan’s Water Wonder: Seafood”, in Monthly Detroit, volume 1, number 8, page 21, column 3:
- It can be clear clam broth or Manhattan clam chowder (red and tomato-y) or Boston clam chowder (a potatoed cream soup).
- 2013, Ruth Yaron, Super Baby Food: Your Complete Guide to What, When and How to Feed Your Baby and Toddler, 3rd edition, Peckville, Tenn.: F. J. Roberts Publishing Company, →ISBN:
- Those that were vine-ripened have a fresh tomato-y smell, whereas those gas-ripened are odorless.