trainy
English
Etymology
From train (“train oil, oil from marine mammal blubber”) + -y.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪni
Adjective
trainy (comparative more trainy, superlative most trainy)
- Resembling or pertaining to train oil.
- the fishy, trainy off-flavor which occurs in European cultured butters
References
- “trainy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.