Definitions for floury

floury flour·y

Spelling: [flouuh r-ee, flou-uh
IPA: /ˈflaʊər i, ˈflaʊ ə ri/

Floury is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 68 anagrams from letters in floury (floruy).

Definitions for floury

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or resembling flour.
  2. white with flour.

Origin of floury

First recorded in 1585-95; flour + -y1

Examples for floury

Biddy had learned to cook them properly, when they appeared dry and floury.

"That's an old story now, my dear," said Frank, rubbing his floury face with his hand.

They were white, floury, without a drop of water in the whole dish of them.

"Why, yes—" said Miss Lydia, doubtfully, and dusted her floury hands together.

Waitstill wiped her floury hands and put them on her sister's shoulders.

She drooped in his arms, hanging her head and looking down on her floury hands.

Boil your potatoes and let them be of the firm, soapy kind, not the floury kind.

Still they were hot and floury, and not bad with a bit of salt.

He knew artificial whiteness only when it was glaring and floury.

Perseverance appeared, floury and serene, at the foot of the ladder.

Word Value for floury
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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