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US
/ˈstɑɹtʃi/
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[ UK /stˈɑːtʃi/ ]
[ UK /stˈɑːtʃi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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consisting of or containing starch
starchy foods -
rigidly formal
his prose has a buckram quality
a starchy manner
the letter was stiff and formal
How To Use starchy In A Sentence
- The Shambaa diet is composed of starchy foods such as rice, maize, and sweet potatoes.
- You can even use a limited amount of starchy adjuncts - such as flaked maize, flaked oats or flaked barley FriendFeed - georgeh
- Very starchy foods such as cassava contain virtually nothing but carbohydrates and water.
- The starchy food created gas, and the bowels, not having their natural tone, gave way to the gas until there was _ "Meteorism," _ not tympanites but meteorism which means to blow up or distend all that is possible. Appendicitis
- Cassava is grown for its starchy tubers, which are most often used to prepare farina or flour, and it is the primary source of carbohydrates in sub-Saharan Africa.
- These standards mean starchy foods such as bread, potatoes, rice and pasta must not be cooked in oil or fat more than three times a week.
- Angel food cakes will be more moist and natural tasting when made with real egg whites (even though they’re actually not made when made with meringue powder), and if you choose to use the meringue powder in a mousse, it may have a starchy aftertaste from the cornstarch in the meringue powder. Baking Bites » Print » What is meringue powder?
- Outside, under the flame trees, women sipping milky tea shelled beans and sold Nile Perch broth or a peanut sauce to go with a starchy-green banana mush called matoke. Richard C. Morais: The Poetry of Pork
- As a chef, Gabrielle Hamilton has always wanted to serve the "salty, sweet, starchy, brothy, crispy things that one craves when one is actually hungry. The Best Nonfiction of 2011
- There is no indication that this starchy, snobby suburban bourgeoise knew anything about cooking. Times, Sunday Times