rubbery
adj/ˈɹʌbəɹi/
Etymology From rubber + -y.
1
Of, relating to, or resembling rubber, especially in consistency.
- What a bad restaurant! The beef was so rubbery I thought I'd never finish chewing it.
- In this same temperature range, however, the leg is at its rubberiest.1988 April 29, Harold McGee, “Curious Cook; Why the Rubber Chicken Leg Can Bounce Across the Road”, in The New York Times:
2 more examples
- If you boil it for hours, it becomes rubbery and overcooked.2020 September 6, Randall Munroe, “Can You Boil an Egg Too Long?”, in The New York Times:
- CJ Biomaterials was the first company in the world to produce amorphous PHA, it says, which is a softer, rubberier version of PHA that offers fundamentally different performance characteristics than crystalline or semi-crystalline forms of the biopolymer.2023 June 29, Mike Edwards, “Collaboration leads to eco-friendly straw made with polyhydroxyalkanoate”, in CPECN:
- Derived terms
- rubberily, rubberiness, rubbery figures