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powdery

[pou-duh-ree]

adjective

  1. consisting of or resembling powder.

    powdery sand; powdery clouds.

  2. easily reduced to powder.

    powdery plaster.

  3. sprinkled or covered with or as with powder.

    flowers powdery with pollen.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of powdery1

First recorded in 1400–50, powdery is from the late Middle English word powdry. See powder 1, -y 1
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This is stored inside a pill that can pass through the stomach unscathed and reach the intestines where it dissolves to release its poopy powdery payload.

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Wind had scoured away most of the powdery snow, and rain had left a slick, brittle crust.

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And, late last year a Finnish company called Solar Foods completed requirements, outlined by the Food and Drug Administration, that allow the company to sell a powdery protein made of pasteurized bacteria.

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By the end of twenty-four hours, we had inches and inches of powdery, white snow — somewhere around 8”-10” all along the Coast from Texas to Florida.

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When David Pearce found two women unconscious in his apartment around 5 a.m., their prone forms near empty liquor bottles and a powdery substance, he said, at first he didn’t think much of it.

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