ricey

English

Etymology

From rice +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪsi

Adjective

ricey (comparative more ricey, superlative most ricey)

1. Containing rice.
   • 1776, Luis de Camoëns, translated by William Julius Mickle, The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India. An Epic Poem., Oxford: Jackson and Lister, page 463:

     Nor may the fleeteſt hawk, untired, explore / Where end the ricey groves that crown the ſhore.

   • 1863, B. W. Richardson, “A Course of Six Lectures on Diseased Conditions of the Mouth and Teeth in Various Constitutional Diseases, Delivered at the College of Dentists of England (Session 1861—62)”, in The Dental Review: A Monthly Journal of Dental Science, volume the fifth, London: Robert Hardwicke, page 108:

     We have first the exhaustive condition; this may be through the person living on bad food—too much ricey food and too little animal; […].

   • 1997, Edward Herbst, Voices in Bali: Energies and Perceptions in Vocal Music and Dance Theater, Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN, page 17:

     Sardono told Pak Tempo in Europe, “listen, you’re not going to like the food here at first, but you have to transcend it. You can’t always be desiring some familiar, ricey food, because you’ll be anxious and alienated. […]”

   • 1999, John Ferrone, The Armchair James Beard:

     Also, there’s a lovely risotto recipe that combines rice, lobster, cream, and Scotch, which I find extraordinarily delicious and far removed from most of the ricey dishes we are usually given with lobster.

   • 2009, The Report: Thailand 2009, Oxford Business Group, →ISBN, page 213:

     These hawker stalls are open dawn till dusk sometimes too, thus providing excellent places to start the day, perhaps with a bowl of johk or khao tom – a ricey porridge to which all manner of extras may be added.

   • 2015, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Love Your Leftovers: Recipes for the Resourceful Cook (River Cottage), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 198:

     Ricey pancake / This is a useful reworking of the egg-rice partnership, for when you have less rice but plenty of eggs. It’s a kind of omelettey, ricey pancake, and can be pleasingly topped with other goodies or even rolled up around them like a wrap.

   • 2016, Edward Hoagland, In the Country of the Blind, Arcade Publishing, →ISBN:

     He walked on the road, enjoyed a ricey meal at the commune, and helped Carol finance three trips to craft fairs, where she sold some window hangings and medallions.

2. Resembling rice.
   • 1854, B[enjamin] F[ranklin] Joslin, “Symptoms and Treatment of the Varieties of Cholera”, in Homœopathic Treatment of Epidemic Cholera, 3rd edition, New York, N.Y.: William Radde, page 124:

     After some time they diminish in quantity, and present, in addition to the watery and ricey portions, some mucus, which still later becomes sanguineous, but is still accompanied by ricey and watery portions.

   • 1920, Edward Bradfield, Wheat and the Flour Mill: A Handbook for Practical Flour Millers, page 9:

     It is yellow, brittle, dry and ricey and not of a particularly pleasing appearance.

   • 1955 November, G[eorge] L[eonard] Rygg, M[illard] R. Getty, Seasonal Changes in Arizona and California Grapefruit (Technical Bulletin No. 1130), page 7:

     The immature fruit collected from the desert plots in September, before the regular collecting season began, was somewhat ricey in texture, rather hard, and lacking in juice.