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Definition of Rhubarby
1. a. Like rhubarb.
Definition of Rhubarby
1. Adjective. Resembling or characteristic of rhubarb. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rhubarby
1. tasting of rhubarb [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhubarby
Literary usage of Rhubarby
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal [Aug. 1, 1832 to July 17, 1833] by Fanny Kemble (1835)
"At Laurel Hill we dismounted, and walked down to the river side. How melancholy
it all looked : the turbid rhubarby water, the skeleton woods, the grey sky, ..."
2. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1900)
"First, I kicked it; kicked it back and forward till it got quite rhubarby.
The rhubarb was wet after the rain, and all the red stalks were soft and pulpy. ..."
3. The Complete Works by John Ruskin (1894)
"... solemnizing to me ; the rather as he never jested, and had a brownish, partly
austere, and sere, wrinkled, and—rhubarby, in fact, sort of a face. ..."
4. Plagues and Pleasures of Life in Bengal by David Douglas Cunningham (1907)
"... English garden at the same time of year, so much does the faintly sweet,
somewhat rhubarby odour of the flowers recall that of summer-tulips. ..."
5. Plagues and Pleasures of Life in Bengal by David Douglas Cunningham (1907)
"... English garden at the same time of year, so much does the faintly sweet,
somewhat rhubarby odour of the flowers recall that of summer-tulips. ..."
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