Rubbery
adjective
Feeling or looking like rubber.
The pasta is too overcooked and became rubbery.
Often appears as...
- rubbery texture
- rubbery feeling
adjective
Difficult to chew because of being elastic and firm.
The steak was rubbery and not enjoyable to eat.
Often appears as...
- rubbery steak
- rubbery meat
adjective
Feeling or looking like rubber.
The pasta is too overcooked and became rubbery.
Often appears as...
- rubbery texture
- rubbery feeling
adjective
Difficult to chew because of being elastic and firm.
The steak was rubbery and not enjoyable to eat.
Often appears as...
- rubbery steak
- rubbery meat
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Pro Tip 1/3Texture Descriptions
Helps describe the consistency of food or other materials, not just rubber itself.
Her homemade jello had a surprisingly rubbery texture.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
Often implies that something has an unexpectedly or unpleasantly firm texture.
The baker's bread has a rubbery crust, it's too difficult to slice.
Pro Tip 3/3Specific Context
It's most commonly used when talking about food that's overcooked or stale.
The once-crispy fries from yesterday turned rubbery overnight.
Pro Tip 1/3Texture Descriptions
Helps describe the consistency of food or other materials, not just rubber itself.
Her homemade jello had a surprisingly rubbery texture.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
Often implies that something has an unexpectedly or unpleasantly firm texture.
The baker's bread has a rubbery crust, it's too difficult to slice.
Pro Tip 3/3Specific Context
It's most commonly used when talking about food that's overcooked or stale.
The once-crispy fries from yesterday turned rubbery overnight.
Pro Tip 1/3Texture Descriptions
Helps describe the consistency of food or other materials, not just rubber itself.
Her homemade jello had a surprisingly rubbery texture.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
Often implies that something has an unexpectedly or unpleasantly firm texture.
The baker's bread has a rubbery crust, it's too difficult to slice.
Pro Tip 3/3Specific Context
It's most commonly used when talking about food that's overcooked or stale.
The once-crispy fries from yesterday turned rubbery overnight.
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First Ascent of a Sky...
while the climbers had been up on the tapue bruce wasn't just sitting around down in the jungle he'd set up a field station and worked with the akawaya to collect any living creatures they could find he led mark and foucault over to a little table where there was a brown rubbery frog in a metal tray
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Safari Live - Day 340 PIPE...
black tongue which contains so much melanin which was thought to originally protect the giraffe from the sun of course our skin has melanin in it as well but it's probably just used more to make the tongue more rubbery if you like the melon in itself will
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Anthony Bourdain and...
out of necessity to kill the critters-- others because it makes it better. But it's almost never about the freshest fish. Fresh fish is right out of the water. It's still in rigor. And it's often rubbery and unpleasant
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The Unconquered:...
then throwing the stuff into a boiling cauldron and that would be our dinner you know let's like rubbery chunk of meat in a you know pretty unappetizing broth and as we penetrate deeper into this realm
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Colour Changing Squid...
rubbery egg cases that other features find poisonous within three weeks the babies are ready to hatch out they are already able to change color but they're not quite so good at summer
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What in the World is a...
front foot and three on each rear foot number five tapirs have a rubbery highly flexible nose perfect for eating leaves fruit and aquatic vegetation which they
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What in the World is a...
front foot and three on each rear foot number five tapirs have a rubbery highly flexible nose perfect for eating leaves fruit and aquatic vegetation which they
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Wolves Save Their...
the whiter wolf is the old grandmother of the pack her teeth aren't strong enough to chew through the tough rubbery hide as this younger wolf is starting to
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Squids Breeding in Kelp...
to the female after the eggs have been fertilized they're deposited in tough rubbery egg cases that other pitchers find poisons
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Sifaka Lemurs Make A...
but she Farkas have thick rubbery footpaths and spring-like legs beckoned leap nine metres in a single bound
Video examples
First Ascent of a Sky...
while the climbers had been up on the tapue bruce wasn't just sitting around down in the jungle he'd set up a field station and worked with the akawaya to collect any living creatures they could find he led mark and foucault over to a little table where there was a brown rubbery frog in a metal tray
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 340 PIPE...
black tongue which contains so much melanin which was thought to originally protect the giraffe from the sun of course our skin has melanin in it as well but it's probably just used more to make the tongue more rubbery if you like the melon in itself will
Video examples
Anthony Bourdain and...
out of necessity to kill the critters-- others because it makes it better. But it's almost never about the freshest fish. Fresh fish is right out of the water. It's still in rigor. And it's often rubbery and unpleasant
Video examples
The Unconquered:...
then throwing the stuff into a boiling cauldron and that would be our dinner you know let's like rubbery chunk of meat in a you know pretty unappetizing broth and as we penetrate deeper into this realm
Video examples
Colour Changing Squid...
rubbery egg cases that other features find poisonous within three weeks the babies are ready to hatch out they are already able to change color but they're not quite so good at summer
Video examples
What in the World is a...
front foot and three on each rear foot number five tapirs have a rubbery highly flexible nose perfect for eating leaves fruit and aquatic vegetation which they
Video examples
What in the World is a...
front foot and three on each rear foot number five tapirs have a rubbery highly flexible nose perfect for eating leaves fruit and aquatic vegetation which they
Video examples
Wolves Save Their...
the whiter wolf is the old grandmother of the pack her teeth aren't strong enough to chew through the tough rubbery hide as this younger wolf is starting to
Video examples
Squids Breeding in Kelp...
to the female after the eggs have been fertilized they're deposited in tough rubbery egg cases that other pitchers find poisons
Video examples
Sifaka Lemurs Make A...
but she Farkas have thick rubbery footpaths and spring-like legs beckoned leap nine metres in a single bound
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Quote examples
Kelly Asbury
American Director
The Smurfs - and they're this way in Peyo's comics as well - do have a rubbery indestructibility about them. They can get bruised & battered. But they then just sort of bounce back very quickly, like those classic cartoon characters Wiley Coyote and Tom & Jerry.
Quote examples
Sean Bean
English Actor
I have gotten a couple of letters meant for Mr. Bean aka Rowan Atkinson. These letters would say things like, 'You're so funny, you make me laugh, with your big rubbery face,' and I would say, 'You can't mean me!
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Guy Fieri
American Businessman
No one likes rubbery chicken.
Quote examples
Kelly Asbury
American Director
The Smurfs - and they're this way in Peyo's comics as well - do have a rubbery indestructibility about them. They can get bruised & battered. But they then just sort of bounce back very quickly, like those classic cartoon characters Wiley Coyote and Tom & Jerry.
Quote examples
Sean Bean
English Actor
I have gotten a couple of letters meant for Mr. Bean aka Rowan Atkinson. These letters would say things like, 'You're so funny, you make me laugh, with your big rubbery face,' and I would say, 'You can't mean me!
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Guy Fieri
American Businessman
No one likes rubbery chicken.
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