stainy

English

Adjective

stainy (comparative more stainy, superlative most stainy)

1. (rare) That easily stains
   • June 21, 2015, Richard Clayton in Financial Times, The Strokes, Hyde Park, London — review

     Possibly in a Fat Elvis-gone-to-art-school phase — hanks of hair dyed splodgy red and stainy yellow — he bawled his lyrics in his characteristic drawl.

   • 1984, Organization of American States:

     The cacao and almonds are poured into the hopper, and very soon a stainy, tacky chocolate sauce oozes out of the spout— which has been sprinkled with sugar so that none will stick and be wasted

   • 1961, LIFE, volume 50, number 18:

     And because it's a stay-put cream, not a stainy liquid, there's no drip, no dread, no mess, no guess to it.

Anagrams

• Yantis, sainty, sanity, satiny, stay in