"chalky" meaning in English

See chalky in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-chalky.wav [Southern-England] Forms: chalkier [comparative], chalkiest [superlative]
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  1. Consisting of or containing chalk. Translations (consisting of or containing chalk): меловой (melovoj) (Russian), известковый (izvestkovyj) (Russian), кре́йдовий (kréjdovyj) (Ukrainian)
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  2. Resembling chalk in some way.
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  3. (US, sports, chiefly basketball) Of a tournament: in which the favorites win, or expected to win, most of the games. Tags: US
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: chalkily, chalkiness, chalky paper, chalky percher, nonchalky Related terms: chalkiness

Inflected forms

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          "text": "a chalky texture",
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          "ref": "1950 July, “Traveller's Joy”, in Railway Magazine, page ii (advertisement):",
          "text": "Their flowers range from the rather formal blossoming of outer London to the wilder flowering of the country, where willow-herb and broom, traveller's joy and campion, go rioting over the chalky banks of the Metropolitan Line.",
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          "ref": "1988 February 7, K. Kotik, “When A Soap Isn't A Soap”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 29, page 7:",
          "text": "The dim, chalky lighting and unsteady camera movements.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Resembling chalk in some way."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Basketball",
        "en:Sports"
      ],
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          "ref": "2019, FiveThirtyEight:",
          "text": "It’s funny — even though the bracket has been so chalky, several of the top seeds have looked suspect at times.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "Of a tournament: in which the favorites win, or expected to win, most of the games."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sports",
          "sports"
        ],
        [
          "basketball",
          "basketball"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, sports, chiefly basketball) Of a tournament: in which the favorites win, or expected to win, most of the games."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
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      "topics": [
        "ball-games",
        "basketball",
        "games",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    }
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔːki"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "melovoj",
      "sense": "consisting of or containing chalk",
      "word": "меловой"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "izvestkovyj",
      "sense": "consisting of or containing chalk",
      "word": "известковый"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "lang_code": "uk",
      "roman": "kréjdovyj",
      "sense": "consisting of or containing chalk",
      "word": "кре́йдовий"
    }
  ],
  "word": "chalky"
}

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