trainy

English

Etymology

From train (“train oil, oil from marine mammal blubber”) +‎ -y.

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -eɪni

Adjective

trainy (comparative more trainy, superlative most trainy)

  1. Resembling or pertaining to train oil.
    the fishy, trainy off-flavor which occurs in European cultured butters

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “trainy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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