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ˈstretchy, a. colloq.
[f. stretch v. + -y.]
1. Having the quality of stretching; elastic.
1854Poultry Chron. I. 503 The marvellous stretchy tightness of their feathers. 1902E. Banks Newspaper Girl 164 Would that we had some of the same stretchy kind [of rules] in America!
b. Liable to stretch unduly.
1885Harper's Mag. Jan. 282/2 A workman with a true eye can often counteract ‘stretchy stock,’ and cover up the deficiencies of the stitcher so that the upper [of the boot] will be a ‘snug fit’.
2. Inclined to stretch oneself or one's limbs.
1872‘Mark Twain’ Roughing It xxvii. (1882) 151 In the night the pup would get stretchy and brace his feet against the old man's back. |