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Like bakers' hands
Answer for the clue "Like bakers' hands ", 6 letters:
floury
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Word definitions for floury in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Resembling flour. 2 Covered in flour.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A roast chicken followed, with pale stuffing, a hot gravy and masses of floury roast potatoes. ▪ Even thinking about their blotched yellow and black skins and their squidgy, floury middles made him want to throw up. ▪ Her ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Floury \Flour"y\, a. Of or resembling flour; mealy; covered with flour. --Dickens.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. resembling flour in fine powdery texture; "a floury clay"
Usage examples of floury.
Will wanted to do justice to their generosity, but the only thing he could easily swallow, apart from the drink, was some flat, slightly scorched floury bread like chapatis or tortillas.
We sat down there for three hours, by the light of a barn lantern, and drank lemonade and ate Mother's sugar cookies, thick and floury and filling.
The nut contains a floury endosperm, and though rarely employed in this country as human food is extensively cultivated for that purpose in Northern Europe, North America (where it also goes by the name of Indian Wheat) and in India and the East.
The bread seller raised floury hands, palms out insubmission, then bellowed for his apprentice.
She had gone a few meters to the outflow of Megapod Creek, where there was a clear dark pool un-contaminated by the floury glacial silt, and was kneeling there filling one of our collapsible 19-liter water containers.
The dust was floury, rising from the shattered ore body as the hammer-men swung their ten-pound sledges to crack the larger lumps into manageable pieces.