Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Resembling or like a bladder.
- adjective Possessing a bladder or bladders.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Thin, membranous, and inflated or distended, like a bladder; vesicular; blistered; pustular.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having bladders; also, resembling a bladder.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having
bladders . - adjective Resembling a
bladder .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective resembling a bladder
Etymologies
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Examples
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To any bladdery bloggers attending my talk this afternoon, I issue this solemn pledge -- I promise to let fly with at least one or two irresponsible comments that you will be able to jot down and get a butt-boil about later.
Whiz Kid: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009
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It was a mass of bladdery seaweed that the returning tide was wafting slowly to the shore.
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Bloodless and bladdery things ran hither and thither noiselessly.
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One of the crested or monstrous forms, when grafted on a flat-stemmed kind, presents the queerest of appearances, looking like a large green cockscomb growing out of the top of a bladdery kind of stem.
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Like many Martians, he was braced upright on his lower tentacles by hoops and buckles around his bladdery body, so that he had roughly a human form, over which lay a strange loose armor of light plates.
The Devil's Asteroid Manly Wade Wellman 1944
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Literary societies know but little of this club, for literary societies despise the affairs of the real worker -- they are interested in the bladdery essay written by the fashionable ass.
The Colossus A Novel Opie Percival Read 1895
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In the words of Dr. Gray, "The fruit is a globular dry berry, enclosed by a five-parted, bladdery inflated calyx."
Seed Dispersal 1878
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In short, Hill, who was a florid flatterer, is so complimentary that we are not surprised to find him telling Richardson, after Pope's death, that the poet's popularity was due to a certain "bladdery swell of management."
Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series Leslie Stephen 1868
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Pope's fame was due to personal assiduities, and 'a certain bladdery swell of management. '
Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Leslie Stephen 1868
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The central nucleus is surrounded by a flattened margin rather bladdery in appearance, of a beautiful red color, formed of a sort of very soft and very elastic jelly.
The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals Jean Mac�� 1854
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