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streaky, a.|ˈstriːkɪ|
Also 7 streeky.
[f. streak n.1 + -y. Cf. straky.]
1. Of the nature of a streak or streaks; occurring in, consisting of, streaks.
1670G. Harvey Little Venus Unmask'd 46 Virulent Whites, being thick streeky, and sometimes thin, sharp, and gńawing. 1687Dryden Hind & P. iii. 1293 For now the streaky light began to peep. 1700― Fables, Flower & Leaf 586 The Life is in the Leaf, and still between The Fits of falling Snows appears the streaky Green. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) VIII. 156 The paint lying in streaky seams. 1821J. Baillie Metr. Leg., Wallace x, As lightning..At first but like a streaky line In the hush'd sky. 1849Cupples Green Hand xiii. (1856) 123 The line of the horizon..with a streaky white haze overlying it. 1916Connoisseur Aug. 239/1 The latter [picture] was somewhat reminiscent of Gainsborough in the streaky handling of the sky and foliage.
2. a. Marked with streaks; streaked.
1745T. Warton Pleas. Melancholy 72 The blushes of the streaky west. 1811Self Instructor 519 Ivory..coarse grained or fine, streaky or the contrary. 1862Calverley Verses & Transl. (ed. 2) 2 When I..sent those streaky lollipops home for your fairy suction. 1872J. H. Gurney Andersson's Birds Damara Land 183 Poliospiza gularis (Smith). Streaky-headed Grosbeak. 1883Hardwich's Photogr. Chem. (ed. 9) 331 The Print Marbled and Streaky.—These defects are often seen before the print is toned.
b. Of flesh-meat, esp. bacon: Having lean and fat in alternate streaks. Also absol. as n.
1838Dickens O. Twist xvii, The layers of red and white in a side of streaky bacon. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xxviii, Good streaky beef, really mingled with fat and lean. 1969Listener 17 Apr. 535/3 An angst-ridden fly on the ceiling: ‘What is my life? Hanging about dustbins, crawling up drains, promiscuous sex on a rasher of streaky. There must be more to life than just pleasure.’ 1973Tel. (Brisbane) 5 Apr. 29/3 If she [sc. a housewife] wants half-a-pound of streaky she is likely to be called ‘dear’ by Britain's grocers. 1979A. Parker Country Recipe Notebk. vi. 82 Pot-roasted pork streaky (belly of pork) is better cold than hot.
3. fig. Variable, uneven (in character or quality); changeable, uncertain (in operation or activity). colloq.
1898Bartram Whiteheaded Boy x. 216, I believe Finoucane to have been, as regards courage, what I should call ‘streaky’. 1899A. C. Benson Life E. W. Benson I. iv. 117 The incongruous and streaky additions [to the school-buildings]. 1899Daily News 4 Oct. 3/2 The wind, however, was streaky, and did not hit the boats at the same time. 1903Westm. Gaz. 7 July 3/1 Raphael did not begin well, his first thirty or forty runs being very streaky.
4. slang.
a. Irritable, ill-tempered.
b. U.S. = streaked 2.
1848in Bartlett Dict. Amer. s.v. Streaked, I never did feel so streaky and mean before. 1860Hotten's Slang Dict. 229 Streaky, irritated, ill-tempered. a1872in Schele de Vere Americanisms 637 A man needn't be afraid to feel streaky, when his mule's about giving out and the Ingins begin to yell like a pack of coyotes.
Hence ˈstreakily adv.; ˈstreakiness.
a1750A. Hill Wks. (1753) II. 185, I..walked homeward, in the brownness of the night, which had shadowed over the fields, with a melancholy streakiness, from the paleness of the moonshine. 1873Besant & Rice My Little Girl ii. ix. 109 He has no perception of the beauties of nature, save in the streakiness of beef. 1874J. Fergusson St. Paul's in Contemp. Rev. Oct. 759 It shows that what was meant to suggest strength is a mere sham, only a little bit of inlay, which, besides its streakiness, violates every principle of..construction. 1885Lock Workshop Rec. Ser. iv. 390/2 It would be next to impossible to obtain a coating perfectly free from streakiness. 1896Brit. Birds, Their Nests & Eggs I. 111 They [the eggs] are dull greenish-white, mottled, or streakily spotted with olive. |