streakyadj.

Brit.

/ˈstriːki/, U.S.

/ˈstriki/

Forms: Also 1600s streeky.

Etymology: < streak n.¹ + -y suffix¹. Compare straky adj.

1. Of the nature of a streak or streaks; occurring in, consisting of, streaks.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > [adjective] > of nature of long narrow object

streaky1670

streamy1842

the world > matter > colour > variegation > stripiness > [adjective] > streaked > of nature of streak

streaky1670

striaeform1822

striated1854

1670 G. Harvey Little Venus Unmask'd (ed. 2) 46 Virulent Whites, being thick streeky, and sometimes thin, sharp, and gńawing.

1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther iii. 145 For now the streaky light began to peep.

1700 J. Dryden Flower & Leaf in Fables 406 The Life is in the Leaf, and still between The Fits of falling Snows, appears the streaky Green.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. lxxviii. 257 The paint lying in streaky seams.

1821 J. Baillie W. Wallace in Metrical Legends x As lightning..At first but like a streaky line In the hush'd sky.

1849 G. Cupples Green Hand (1856) xiii. 123 The line of the horizon..with a streaky white haze overlying it.

1916 Connoisseur Aug. 239/1 The latter [picture] was somewhat reminiscent of Gainsborough in the streaky handling of the sky and foliage.

a. Marked with streaks; streaked.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > variegation > stripiness > [adjective] > streaked

brinded1430

straked1537

branded1561

flaked1577

pencilled1592

streaked1600

brandy1608

striated1646

straky1650

bestreakeda1658

tabby1665

whipped1673

brindle1676

brindled1678

striate1678

rowy1742

streaky1747

virgated1803

roded1841

fibrilloso-striate1846

roey1850

tabbied1861

rody1864

1747 T. Warton Pleasures of Melancholy 8 The blushes of the streaky west.

1811 J. Parkins Young Man's Best Compan. 519 Ivory..coarse grained or fine, streaky or the contrary.

1862 C. S. Calverley Verses & Transl. (ed. 2) 2 When I..sent those streaky lollipops home for your fairy suction.

a1867 C. J. Andersson Notes Birds Damara Land (1872) 183 Poliospiza gularis (Smith). Streaky-headed Grosbeak.

1883 J. T. Taylor Hardwich's Man. 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.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > [adjective] > relating to meat > streaked with fat

streaked1688

marbled1803

streaky1838

the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > pork > [adjective] > types of bacon

Westphalia1636

riny1682

rowy1742

Smithfield1809

streaky1838

roded1841

rody1864

lardy1879

stout1905

1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. xvii. 271 The layers of red and white in a side of streaky..bacon.

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxviii. 242 Good streaky beef, really mingled with fat and lean.

1969 Listener 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.’

1973 Telegraph (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.

1979 A. Parker Country Recipe Notebk. vi. 82 Pot-roasted pork streaky (belly of pork) is better cold than hot.

3. figurative. Variable, uneven (in character or quality); changeable, uncertain (in operation or activity). colloquial.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > changeableness > [adjective]

slidinga900

wankleeOE

windyc1000

unsteadfastc1200

fleeting?c1225

loose?c1225

brotelc1315

unstablec1340

varyingc1340

variantc1374

motleyc1380

ungroundedc1380

muablea1393

passiblea1393

remuablea1393

changeablea1398

movablea1398

variablec1397

slidderya1400

ticklec1400

variantc1412

flitting1413

mutable?a1425

movingc1425

flaskisable1430

flickering1430

transmutablec1430

vertible1447

brittlea1450

ficklea1450

permutablec1450

unfirmc1450

uncertain1477

turnable1483

unsteadfast1483

vagrantc1522

inconstant1526

alterable?1531

stirringc1540

slippery1548

various1552

slid?1553

mutala1561

rolling1561

weathery1563

unconstant1568

interchangeable1574

fluctuant1575

stayless1575

transitive1575

voluble1575

changeling1577

queasy1579

desultory1581

huff-puff1582

unstaid1586

vagrant1586

changeful1590

floating1594

Protean1594

unstayed1594

swimming1596

anchorless1597

mobilec1600

ticklish1601

catching1603

labile1603

unrooted1604

quicksilvered1605

versatile1605

insubstantial1607

uncertain1609

brandling1611

rootless1611

squeasy1611

wind-changinga1616

insolid1618

ambulatory1625

versatilous1629

plastic1633

desultorious1637

unbottomed1641

fluid1642

fluent1648

yea-and-nay1648

versipellous1650

flexile1651

uncentred1652

variating1653

chequered1656

slideable1662

transchangeative1662

weathercock-like1663

flicketing1674

fluxa1677

lapsable1678

wanton1681

veering1684

upon the weathercock1702

contingent1703

unsettled?1726

fermentable1731

afloat1757

brickle1768

wavy1795

vagarious1798

unsettled1803

fitful1810

metamorphosical1811

undulating1815

tittupya1817

titubant1817

mutative1818

papier mâché1818

teetotum1819

vacillating1822

capricious1823

sensitive1828

quicksilvery1829

unengrafted1829

fluxionala1834

proteiform1833

liquid1835

tottlish1835

kaleidoscopic1846

versative1846

kaleidoscopical1858

tottery1861

choppy1865

variative1874

variational1879

wimbly-wambly1881

fluctuable1882

shifty1882

giveable1884

shifty1884

tippy1886

mutatory1890

upsettable1890

rocky1897

undulatory1897

streaky1898

tottly1905

tipply1906

up and down1907

inertialess1927

sometimey1946

rise-and-fall1950

switchable1961

the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [adjective] > varying or unequal in extent, duration, etc. > varying or uneven in character, quality, etc.

unequal1703

splashy1880

streaky1898

1898 G. Bartram White-headed Boy x. 216 I believe Finoucane to have been, as regards courage, what I should call ‘streaky’.

1899 A. C. Benson Life of E. W. Benson I. iv. 117 The incongruous and streaky additions [to the school-buildings].

1899 Daily News 4 Oct. 3/2 The wind, however, was streaky, and did not hit the boats at the same time.

1903 Westm. 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.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > irritability > irritable [adjective]

sharpc1000

impatient1377

out-sharpinga1382

teethya1500

fumish1523

testy1526

crabbed1535

tettish1567

peevish1577

kickish1589

splenetic1593

spleenful1594

tetchy1596

wasp-stung1598

touchy1602

spleeny1604

pruriginous1609

teety1621

splenitive1633

peltish1648

irritable1662

splenatic1663

splenetive1678

unheer1691

rusty1694

nettlesome1766

stingy1781

snarly1798

tutty1809

spleenical1818

rileya1824

nettly1825

edgy1837

porcupinal1846

shirty1846

raspish1854

peckish1857

streaky1860

owly1864

teasy1866

fussy1869

raspy1869

spiky1881

chippyc1885

tetchous1890

narky1895

snarky1906

ringy1907

snarkish1912

Scot1916

crooked1945

niggly1952

snooty1959

kvetchy1965

to be on the rag1967

sandpaper1976

gribble1984

splenous-

1860 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang (ed. 2) Streaky, irritated, ill-tempered.

b. U.S. = streaked adj. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > [adjective]

reigheOE

drofc1000

druvyOE

restlessOE

worya1225

forstraughtc1386

unquertc1390

unsaughtc1390

ill (evil) at easea1400

unrofula1400

unquietc1400

unrestya1413

unquieted?a1425

unrestful?c1425

unpeaceda1475

out of quieta1500

inquiet?1504

uneasya1513

perturbed1538

unquietous?1545

disquieted?1548

astraught1564

astraughted1565

agitate1567

turmoiled1570

disquiet1587

distroubled1590

weltered1590

disturbed1593

twitcheda1594

troublesome1596

stract1598

uncomposed1601

discomposed1603

incomposed1608

uncouth1660

unserene1664

chagrin1665

agitated1684

perturbated1704

disordered1711

perturbate1741

chagrineda1754

nervish1760

uncomfortable1796

funked1831

untranquillized1831

streaked1833

striped1839

discomfortable1844

streaky1848

bothered1851

funked out1859

bebothered1866

disorderly1871

fantod1883

rattled1885

aflap1887

shook1891

dicked-up1967

torqued1967

weirded out1973

the mind > emotion > humility > feeling of shame > [adjective] > abashed

abasheda1387

out of countenancec1500

discountenanced1644

streaked1833

streaky1848

the mind > emotion > fear > nervousness or uneasiness > [adjective] > uneasy > rattled

streaked1833

striped1839

streaky1848

rattled1885

1848 in J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms at Streaked I never did feel so streaky and mean before.

a1872 in 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.

Derivatives

ˈstreakily adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > variegation > stripiness > [adverb] > streak

streakily1896

1896 A. G. Butler Brit. Birds with their Nests & Eggs I. 111 They [sc. the eggs] are dull greenish-white, mottled, or streakily spotted with olive.

ˈstreakiness n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > variegation > stripiness > [noun] > streakiness

brindle1696

striaturea1728

streakinessa1750

rowiness1842

striation1851

a1750 A. 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.

1873 W. Besant & J. Rice My Little Girl ii. ix. 109 He has no perception of the beauties of nature, save in the streakiness of beef.

1874 J. 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.

1885 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 4th Ser. 390/2 It would be next to impossible to obtain a coating perfectly free from streakiness.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	streaky
释义	streakyadj. Brit. /ˈstriːki/, U.S. /ˈstriki/ Forms: Also 1600s streeky. Etymology: < streak n.¹ + -y suffix¹. Compare straky adj. 1. Of the nature of a streak or streaks; occurring in, consisting of, streaks. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > [adjective] > of nature of long narrow object streaky1670 streamy1842 the world > matter > colour > variegation > stripiness > [adjective] > streaked > of nature of streak streaky1670 striaeform1822 striated1854 1670 G. Harvey Little Venus Unmask'd (ed. 2) 46 Virulent Whites, being thick streeky, and sometimes thin, sharp, and gńawing. 1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther iii. 145 For now the streaky light began to peep. 1700 J. Dryden Flower & Leaf in Fables 406 The Life is in the Leaf, and still between The Fits of falling Snows, appears the streaky Green. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. lxxviii. 257 The paint lying in streaky seams. 1821 J. Baillie W. Wallace in Metrical Legends x As lightning..At first but like a streaky line In the hush'd sky. 1849 G. Cupples Green Hand (1856) xiii. 123 The line of the horizon..with a streaky white haze overlying it. 1916 Connoisseur 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. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > stripiness > [adjective] > streaked brinded1430 straked1537 branded1561 flaked1577 pencilled1592 streaked1600 brandy1608 striated1646 straky1650 bestreakeda1658 tabby1665 whipped1673 brindle1676 brindled1678 striate1678 rowy1742 streaky1747 virgated1803 roded1841 fibrilloso-striate1846 roey1850 tabbied1861 rody1864 1747 T. Warton Pleasures of Melancholy 8 The blushes of the streaky west. 1811 J. Parkins Young Man's Best Compan. 519 Ivory..coarse grained or fine, streaky or the contrary. 1862 C. S. Calverley Verses & Transl. (ed. 2) 2 When I..sent those streaky lollipops home for your fairy suction. a1867 C. J. Andersson Notes Birds Damara Land (1872) 183 Poliospiza gularis (Smith). Streaky-headed Grosbeak. 1883 J. T. Taylor Hardwich's Man. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > [adjective] > relating to meat > streaked with fat streaked1688 marbled1803 streaky1838 the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > pork > [adjective] > types of bacon Westphalia1636 riny1682 rowy1742 Smithfield1809 streaky1838 roded1841 rody1864 lardy1879 stout1905 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. xvii. 271 The layers of red and white in a side of streaky..bacon. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxviii. 242 Good streaky beef, really mingled with fat and lean. 1969 Listener 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.’ 1973 Telegraph (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. 1979 A. Parker Country Recipe Notebk. vi. 82 Pot-roasted pork streaky (belly of pork) is better cold than hot. 3. figurative. Variable, uneven (in character or quality); changeable, uncertain (in operation or activity). colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > changeableness > [adjective] slidinga900 wankleeOE windyc1000 unsteadfastc1200 fleeting?c1225 loose?c1225 brotelc1315 unstablec1340 varyingc1340 variantc1374 motleyc1380 ungroundedc1380 muablea1393 passiblea1393 remuablea1393 changeablea1398 movablea1398 variablec1397 slidderya1400 ticklec1400 variantc1412 flitting1413 mutable?a1425 movingc1425 flaskisable1430 flickering1430 transmutablec1430 vertible1447 brittlea1450 ficklea1450 permutablec1450 unfirmc1450 uncertain1477 turnable1483 unsteadfast1483 vagrantc1522 inconstant1526 alterable?1531 stirringc1540 slippery1548 various1552 slid?1553 mutala1561 rolling1561 weathery1563 unconstant1568 interchangeable1574 fluctuant1575 stayless1575 transitive1575 voluble1575 changeling1577 queasy1579 desultory1581 huff-puff1582 unstaid1586 vagrant1586 changeful1590 floating1594 Protean1594 unstayed1594 swimming1596 anchorless1597 mobilec1600 ticklish1601 catching1603 labile1603 unrooted1604 quicksilvered1605 versatile1605 insubstantial1607 uncertain1609 brandling1611 rootless1611 squeasy1611 wind-changinga1616 insolid1618 ambulatory1625 versatilous1629 plastic1633 desultorious1637 unbottomed1641 fluid1642 fluent1648 yea-and-nay1648 versipellous1650 flexile1651 uncentred1652 variating1653 chequered1656 slideable1662 transchangeative1662 weathercock-like1663 flicketing1674 fluxa1677 lapsable1678 wanton1681 veering1684 upon the weathercock1702 contingent1703 unsettled?1726 fermentable1731 afloat1757 brickle1768 wavy1795 vagarious1798 unsettled1803 fitful1810 metamorphosical1811 undulating1815 tittupya1817 titubant1817 mutative1818 papier mâché1818 teetotum1819 vacillating1822 capricious1823 sensitive1828 quicksilvery1829 unengrafted1829 fluxionala1834 proteiform1833 liquid1835 tottlish1835 kaleidoscopic1846 versative1846 kaleidoscopical1858 tottery1861 choppy1865 variative1874 variational1879 wimbly-wambly1881 fluctuable1882 shifty1882 giveable1884 shifty1884 tippy1886 mutatory1890 upsettable1890 rocky1897 undulatory1897 streaky1898 tottly1905 tipply1906 up and down1907 inertialess1927 sometimey1946 rise-and-fall1950 switchable1961 the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [adjective] > varying or unequal in extent, duration, etc. > varying or uneven in character, quality, etc. unequal1703 splashy1880 streaky1898 1898 G. Bartram White-headed Boy x. 216 I believe Finoucane to have been, as regards courage, what I should call ‘streaky’. 1899 A. C. Benson Life of E. W. Benson I. iv. 117 The incongruous and streaky additions [to the school-buildings]. 1899 Daily News 4 Oct. 3/2 The wind, however, was streaky, and did not hit the boats at the same time. 1903 Westm. 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. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > irritability > irritable [adjective] sharpc1000 impatient1377 out-sharpinga1382 teethya1500 fumish1523 testy1526 crabbed1535 tettish1567 peevish1577 kickish1589 splenetic1593 spleenful1594 tetchy1596 wasp-stung1598 touchy1602 spleeny1604 pruriginous1609 teety1621 splenitive1633 peltish1648 irritable1662 splenatic1663 splenetive1678 unheer1691 rusty1694 nettlesome1766 stingy1781 snarly1798 tutty1809 spleenical1818 rileya1824 nettly1825 edgy1837 porcupinal1846 shirty1846 raspish1854 peckish1857 streaky1860 owly1864 teasy1866 fussy1869 raspy1869 spiky1881 chippyc1885 tetchous1890 narky1895 snarky1906 ringy1907 snarkish1912 Scot1916 crooked1945 niggly1952 snooty1959 kvetchy1965 to be on the rag1967 sandpaper1976 gribble1984 splenous- 1860 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang (ed. 2) Streaky, irritated, ill-tempered. b. U.S. = streaked adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > [adjective] reigheOE drofc1000 druvyOE restlessOE worya1225 forstraughtc1386 unquertc1390 unsaughtc1390 ill (evil) at easea1400 unrofula1400 unquietc1400 unrestya1413 unquieted?a1425 unrestful?c1425 unpeaceda1475 out of quieta1500 inquiet?1504 uneasya1513 perturbed1538 unquietous?1545 disquieted?1548 astraught1564 astraughted1565 agitate1567 turmoiled1570 disquiet1587 distroubled1590 weltered1590 disturbed1593 twitcheda1594 troublesome1596 stract1598 uncomposed1601 discomposed1603 incomposed1608 uncouth1660 unserene1664 chagrin1665 agitated1684 perturbated1704 disordered1711 perturbate1741 chagrineda1754 nervish1760 uncomfortable1796 funked1831 untranquillized1831 streaked1833 striped1839 discomfortable1844 streaky1848 bothered1851 funked out1859 bebothered1866 disorderly1871 fantod1883 rattled1885 aflap1887 shook1891 dicked-up1967 torqued1967 weirded out1973 the mind > emotion > humility > feeling of shame > [adjective] > abashed abasheda1387 out of countenancec1500 discountenanced1644 streaked1833 streaky1848 the mind > emotion > fear > nervousness or uneasiness > [adjective] > uneasy > rattled streaked1833 striped1839 streaky1848 rattled1885 1848 in J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms at Streaked I never did feel so streaky and mean before. a1872 in 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. Derivatives ˈstreakily adv. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > stripiness > [adverb] > streak streakily1896 1896 A. G. Butler Brit. Birds with their Nests & Eggs I. 111 They [sc. the eggs] are dull greenish-white, mottled, or streakily spotted with olive. ˈstreakiness n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > stripiness > [noun] > streakiness brindle1696 striaturea1728 streakinessa1750 rowiness1842 striation1851 a1750 A. 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. 1873 W. Besant & J. Rice My Little Girl ii. ix. 109 He has no perception of the beauties of nature, save in the streakiness of beef. 1874 J. 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. 1885 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 4th Ser. 390/2 It would be next to impossible to obtain a coating perfectly free from streakiness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1670
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