buckwheaty
adjEtymology From buckwheat + -y.
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Resembling or characteristic of buckwheat.
- “There is not anything this side of hell as mean as a licensed saloon, and I would rather have five uncompromising than 500 wishy wash, buckwheaty men to fight this damnable curse.”1892 January 21, “From Friday’s Daily. Another Big Meeting. The Gospel Temperance Revival Still Growing—One Hundred and Forty-Three New Names Added to the Pledges.”, in Albert W. Swalm, editor, The Oskaloosa Herald, volume 42, number 23, Oskaloosa, Ia., front page, column 6:
- We have just gotten in a car of genuine old-fashioned dark buckwheat. This buckwheat is real old-fashioned kind; it’s pure; it is not mixed with wheat flour, nor corn flour, nor anything else; it’s the regular old buckwheaty buckwheat and you’ll like it.1904 December 2, The Kroger Grocery & Baking Co., “Save Money”, in The Cincinnati Post, volume 47, number 131, Cincinnati, Oh., page 13:
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- New Buckwheat, that good old-fashioned kind of dark Buckwheat that has the real buckwheaty taste, three pounds for 10 cents.1905 October 20, The Kroger Grocery & Baking Co., “New Goods”, in The Cincinnati Post, volume 50, number 98, Cincinnati, Oh., page 5:
- Fall-gathered honey, with sufficient buckwheat to give it a buckwheaty flavor.1907 October 15, James McNeill, “Honey and Wax For Sale”, in Gleanings in Bee Culture, volume XXXV, number 20, Medina, Oh.: The A[mos] I[ves] Root Co., page 1346, column 1:
- Steamer Rugs, handy and useful on land and sea. They give a pillowy softness to sofas. A luxury when “porching.” Fastidious travellers throw aside the soggy, buckwheaty blankets of Pullmans and use their Steamer Rugs instead.1910 February 9, “You Need Not Take an Ocean Voyage in Order to Utilize These Steamer Rugs”, in The Sun, volume LXXVII, number 162, New York, N.Y.: [T]he Sun Printing and Publishing Association, page 12, column 2:
- More and Better Buckwheat Cakes by using flour that contains more real BUCKWHEAT than any other brand. It’s / morning glory / BuckwheaT / self-rising / Such cakes have that almost-forgotten, old-fashioned “buckwheaty” flavor.1910 September 30, Reeves, Parvin & Co., “More and Better Buckwheat Cakes”, in Evening Herald, volume XXXXI, number 233, Shenandoah, Pa., page [3], column 4:
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With buckwheat.
- Now she is Frederick, all valleys and hills, / The Linganore driving the old water-mills; / Now she is Garrett—most rugged of maids / A-wing o’er the bloom of the buckwheaty glades, / Tiptoe on peaks where the Great Savage thrills / The heart that looks off from its huge colonnades / To the winding Potomac, that trails like a band / Of silver-spun ribbon across the green land.1910 March 21, the Bentztown Bard [pseudonym], “[Maryland Musings.] Little Miss Maryland.”, in The Sun, volume CXLVI, number 125, Baltimore, Md., page 6, column 3:
- Breakfast? No Longer Buckwheaty / We learn with dismay that the 1955 crop of buckwheat was the smallest in 89 years. It now takes only two million bushels a year to fill the demand. At that rate we shall soon have a generation of children who never tasted a buckwheat cake on a frosty morning.1956 January 8, “Breakfast? No Longer Buckwheaty”, in The Charlotte Observer, volume 87, number 274, Charlotte, N.C., page 2-C, column 1:
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- I start, sawing at a stack of grainy, buckwheaty, blue-corn pancakes ($4.25) that the Cantina on Main — a branch of the Reading Terminal’s popular 12th Street Cantina.1995 November 5, Rick Nichols, “Rise and dine: Manayunk Farmers Market serves Sunday breakfast no matter when your morning starts”, in Inquirer: The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, Philadelphia, Pa.: Philadelphia Newspapers Inc., page 30, column 4:
- The big spender (admirably, nothing here tops $10) might consider the bavette, steak done with a splash of coup de grisou, that wonderfully spiced, buckwheaty beer.2011 August 13, Sarah Musgrave, “Beer, burgers and beyond: LE POURVOYEUR, which cheerily calls itself a ‘pub festif et gourmand,’ is a great complement to the Jean Talon Market”, in The Gazette, Montreal, Que.: Postmedia Network Inc., page g3, column 2:
- Buckwheaty Hemp Chocolate Granola […] Cinnamon Buckwheaty Squares2012, Douglas McNish, Eat Raw, Eat Well: 400 Raw, Vegan & Gluten-Free Recipes, Toronto, Ont.: Robert Rose, →ISBN, pages 28 (Breakfast) and 317 (Snacks and Breads):