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Definition of Rubbery
1. Adjective. Having an elastic texture resembling rubber in flexibility or toughness.
2. Adjective. Difficult to chew.
Definition of Rubbery
1. Adjective. Of, relating to, or resembling rubber, especially in consistency. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rubbery
1. resembling rubber (an elastic substance) [adj -BERIER, -BERIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rubbery
Literary usage of Rubbery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Miscellanies by William Makepeace Thackeray (1877)
"How diiferent is his fate to that of poor rubbery, the school drawing- master !
Highgate, Homerton, Putney, Hackney, Hornsey, Turnham Green, ..."
2. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1900)
"The fact is, that of these drawings, rubbery, in the course of the year, ...
I am ashamed to say that rubbery takes his pipe in the parlour of an hotel, ..."
3. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"I am ashamed to say that rubbery takes his pipe in the parlour of an hotel, of
which the largest room is devoted to the convenience of poor people, ..."
4. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray (1869)
"Think of the labours of that poor rubbery. ... Professor rubbery wipes his hot
brows and kisses the poor thing, and they go in together out of the rain, ..."
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