starchy
/ˈstɑːtʃi/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈstɑːtʃi/
starchy
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
- Stress
- 1st syllable stress
- Vowel
- Open ah vowel
- Ending
- Final y vowel sound
star - chy -> starchy
Myanmar meaning
ကော်နှင့်ဆိုင်သော ၊ တူသော ၊ ပါရှိသော။ မူလဖြစ်သော။ ထုံးတမ်းစဉ်လာဖြစ်သော။
Full entry
(က) [U] ကစီဓာတ်။
(ခ) [U,C] ကစီဓာတ်ပါသော စားဖွယ်။ cut down on starch.
(ဂ) [U] ကော်။ ကော်ရည်။ ကော်မှုန့်။ Spray starch on the shirt collars before ironing them.
v ကော်တင်သည်။ starched white uniforms.
❏ starchy adj
၁။ ကစီဓာတ်ကဲသော။ ကော်များသော။ starchy foods.
၂။ (infml derog ) ရှေးမူအတိုင်း ရှုတည်တည်နှင့် စည်းကမ်းကလနားကြီးသော။ a starchy middle-aged matron.
Synonyms
arrowroot, backbone, be numb, boiler plate, boldness, braze, caked, caking, calcified, calcify, calloused, candied, carbohydrate, caseharden, casehardened, casehardening, ceremony, characterless, clean up, cleaned up, cliched, clichéd, commonplace, complex carbohydrate, concreted, curdled, curdling, decorum, densify, dime-a-dozen, do the dishes, do the laundry, drive, energy, familiar tune, firming, formality, fossilize, fossilized, fresh up, freshen up, garden variety, gel, gelling, glycogen, gumption, harden, hosing, indurate, jellied, laundering agent, laundry starch, lave, matter-of-course, mettle, pluck, polysaccharide, push, run of the mill, shampoo, shampooing, sizing, soaping, stamina, starched, steadying, stiff bearing, stiffen, stiffener, stiffening, stiffness, strength, strengthener, sugar, take a bath, take a shower, temper, tensed, tensing, thickener, toughen up, unnoteworthy, vigor, vitality, vitrified, vitrify, wash, wash up, washed up, workaday, wornout
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