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Grammar : Adj
Spell : mar-oh
Phonetic Transcription : ˈmær oʊ

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Définition of marrowy

Origin :
  • late 14c., from Old English mearg "marrow," earlier mærh, from Proto-Germanic *mazga- (cf. Old Norse mergr, Old Saxon marg, Old Frisian merg, Middle Dutch march, Dutch merg, Old High German marg, German Mark "marrow"), from PIE *mozgo- "marrow" (cf. Sanskrit majjan-, Avestan mazga- "marrow," Old Church Slavonic mozgu, Lithuanian smagenes "brain"). Figurative sense of "inmost or central part" is attested from c.1400.
  • adj pithy
Example sentences :
  • The filling inside his knee joints turned to a marrowy jelly.
  • Extract from : « Those Times And These » by Irvin S. Cobb
  • “Curds and whey” might suit Euripides, the Apologist must have marrowy wine.
  • Extract from : « The Browning Cyclopdia » by Edward Berdoe
  • So far from being soon out of season, it retains its tender and marrowy character longer than many other varieties.
  • Extract from : « The Field and Garden Vegetables of America » by Fearing Burr
  • The bones of this order of mammals are slender and marrowy; they are thus light, and subserve the function of flight.
  • Extract from : « The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia » by Frank Evers Beddard
  • Rich weed-growth is expressed by light but marrowy touch, suggestive of detail as well as of general form.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 » by Various
  • The locality proved to be the marrowy grave of an extinct lake or black tarn.
  • Extract from : « Riverby » by John Burroughs
  • Here's a marrowy bone of gossip Lady Hannah shall never crack.
  • Extract from : « The Dop Doctor » by Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
  • For 'marrows' Mr. Dyce reads 'marrowy,' Collier's folio meadows.
  • Extract from : « The Shakespeare-Expositor: An Aid to the Perfect Understanding of Shakespeare's Plays » by Thomas Keightley
  • Their flesh is soft, loose, marrowy, very fine-grained and of a snow-white color.
  • Extract from : « British Pomology » by Robert Hogg
  • The marrowy vigor in his mind it is that lends such expressiveness, such nimbleness, such accent to his sentences, to his style.
  • Extract from : « Essays sthetical » by George Calvert
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