Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of the meat of a lamb.

Etymologies

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lamb +‎ -y

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Examples

  • There huge, i got the little lamby, which is lamb burger with lettuce, tomato relish and mint sauce.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

  • Teams of four have to put on swanni (called a lamby on the Coast actually) and gumboots and sprint 100m over and through conservation-themed obstacles and piece by piece bring back equipment and whitebait fritter ingredients which are then cooked up by the fourth team member.

    All content 2010

  • Cape Horn, singing "Haul out to leeward," with a wet stocking on your neck, and with the same old "lamby" on, that long since was "lamby" only in name, the woolly part having given way to a cloth worn much in "Far

    Voyage of the Liberdade Joshua Slocum 1877

  • And lean spring lamb, naturally lower in fat than the big animals that provide meaty chops, has less of the marbling that accounts for the “lamby” flavor many people find objectionable.

    Lambs to the Slaughter 2009

  • And lean spring lamb, naturally lower in fat than the big animals that provide meaty chops, has less of the marbling that accounts for the “lamby” flavor many people find objectionable.

    Lambs to the Slaughter 2009

  • So I love Shish and Lula kabob, but also the lamby Bukharan kabobs around town, Xinjiang-style “shwar,” Peruvian anticuchos, and döner.

    PROFILE: Midtown Lunch’er “Steveroller” | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan 2009

  • It was not so much a lambkin, as a little lamby clone.

    Mary Had a Little Clone 1997

  • There were too many lamby clones, for Mary to control.

    Mary Had a Little Clone 1997

  • "You go to that dear, sweet little child and tell her that you're taking her wee lamby away."

    The Doom Brigade Weis, Margaret 1996

  • "You go to that dear, sweet little child and tell her that you're taking her wee lamby away."

    The Doom Brigade Weis, Margaret 1996

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