| Pronunciation: | | 'peypuree
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| Matching Terms: | | paper, paper bag, paper birch, paper chase, paper chromatography, paper clip, paper cup, paper currency, paper cutter, paper electrophoresis, paper fastener, paper feed control character, paper flower, paper gold, paper mill, paper money, paper mulberry, paper nautilus, paper rush, paper towel, paper toweling, paper wasp, paperback, paperback book, paperbacked, paperboard, paperbound supplement, paperboy, paperclip, paperer, paperhanger, paperhanging, papering, paperknife, paperlike, papermail, papermaking, paper-net, papers, paperweight, paperwork
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- [adj] thin and paperlike; "papery leaves"; "wasps that make nests of papery material"
- [adj] of or like paper
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| | Synonyms: | | chartaceous, paperlike, thin |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Pa"per*y\, a.
Like paper; having the thinness or consistence of paper.
--Gray.
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| | Related Terms: | | airy, atrophied, attenuate, attenuated, boyish, breakable, brittle, cheap-jack, cobwebby, crumbly, dainty, delicate, delicately weak, desiccated, diaphanous, diluted, dried-up, effeminate, emaciated, ethereal, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flimsy, fragile, frail, frangible, gauzy, gimcrack, gimcracky, girlish, gossamer, gossamery, gracile, insubstantial, jerry, jerry-built, lacy, light, lightweight, misty, namby-pamby, parchmenty, pasteboardy, puny, rare, rarefied, sere, shattery, shriveled, shrunken, sissified, sleazy, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, subtle, svelte, sylphlike, tacky, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thinnish, thin-set, thin-spun, threadlike, unsubstantial, vague, wasp-waisted, wasted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, willowy, wilted, wiredrawn, wispy, withered, wizened, womanish, wrinkled |
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