maizy

English

Alternative forms

• maizey

Etymology

From maize +‎ -y.

Adjective

maizy (comparative more maizy, superlative most maizy)

1. Resembling or characteristic of maize.
   • 1997, Jamie MacKinnon, The Great Lakes Beer Guide: Eastern Region: An Affectionate, Opinionated Guide to the Beers of Michigan, New York, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Quebec and Vermont, The Boston Mills Press, →ISBN, page 49:

     Corn, used in most mass-market Canadian beer, has a sweet and maizy flavor that shows clearly when used in high proportions.

   • 2006, Adam Green, Satsuma Sun-mover, Lazy Gramophone Press, →ISBN, page 96:

     They were crunchy as pretzels with a maizy taste that was bread-crummy at first and then sweet.

   • 2009, Darrin Doyle, The Girl Who Ate Kalamazoo, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Griffin, published 2010, →ISBN, page 5:

     Your mouth can’t be real, unless God, who doesn’t exist, has performed a miracle and sent to Earth not a bearded savior but a pair of strawberry lips and teeth as crookedly perfect as wave-battered rocks under a maizy sun where no man could fear death.

   • 2021 June 13, Laura Cumming, “Of dreaming and nightmares”, in The New Review (The Observer), page 30:

     Desert dabs of red and ochre, alternating with a maizy gold and the blue-green of eucalyptus, take you immediately into the dazzling land.