streaky

streak·y (str

)

adj. streak·i·er, streak·i·est

1. Marked with, characterized by, or occurring in streaks.

2. Variable or uneven in character or quality.

streaki·ly adv.

streaki·ness n.

streaky [ˈstriːkɪ]

adj streakier, streakiest

1. marked with streaks

2. occurring in streaks

3. (Cookery) (of bacon) having alternate layers of meat and fat

4. of varying or uneven quality

streakily adv

streakiness n

streaky - Describes bacon with alternating strips of fat and lean.

See also related terms for lean.

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Adj.

streaky - marked with or as if with stripes or linear discolorations; "streaked hair"; "fat legs and dirty streaky faces"

streaked

patterned - having patterns (especially colorful patterns)

streaky

noun streaked, striped, banded, veined three rashers of streaky bacon

Translations

streaky [ˈstriːkɪ]

A. ADJ → rayado, listado; [rock etc] → veteado

B. CPD streaky bacon N (Brit) → tocino m con grasa, bacon m, beicon m

streaky [ˈstriːki] adj (= striped) → zébré(e), strié(e)
streaky bacon n (British) → bacon m entrelardé

streaky

adj (+er) glass, face → verschmiert; window, mirror → streifig; pattern → gestreift; hair → strähnig; streaky bacon (Brit) → durchwachsener Speck

streaky [ˈstriːkɪ] adj (colour, window, sky) → striato/a; (rock) → venato/a, screziato/a

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acres
Anthus
Anthus pratensis
genus Anthus
lark
Lean
meadow pipit
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oscine bird
pipit
streak
Streaked
streaky bacon
striped
stripy
titlark
Wrinkles

You may remember, Aggy, when I painted the sign of the bold dragoon for Captain Hollister there was that fellow, who was about town laying brick-dust on the houses, came one day and offered to mix what I call the streaky black, for the tail and mane; and then, because it looks like horse-hair, he tells everybody that the sign was painted by himself and Squire Jones.

The Pioneers by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context

" And Jos owned with a sigh, "that for good streaky beef, really mingled with fat and lean, there was no country like England.

Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context

It is the custom on the stage, in all good murderous melodramas, to present the tragic and the comic scenes, in as regular alternation, as the layers of red and white in a side of streaky bacon.

Oliver Twist Or The Parish Boy's Progress by Dickens, Charles View in context

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