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leathery

English

Etymology

leather +? -y

Pronunciation

Adjective

leathery (comparative more leathery or leatherier, superlative most leathery or leatheriest)

  1. Having the consistency, feel, or texture of leather.
    The beef jerky was tough and leathery.

Translations

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leathern

English

Etymology

From Middle English letheren, from Old English liþren, from Proto-Germanic *liþr?naz (of leather, leathern), equivalent to leather +? -en. Cognate with Scots letherin, lethrin, West Frisian learen, Dutch lederen, leren (leathern), German ledern (leathern).

Adjective

leathern (not comparable)

  1. (dated) Made of leather.
    Synonym: (more current) leather
    • 1823, Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia
      He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter-of-a-penny loaf — our crug — moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggings, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.

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