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lint⋅y

  [lin-tee]
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–adjective, lint⋅i⋅er, lint⋅i⋅est.
1. full of or covered with lint: This blue suit gets linty quickly.
2. like lint: linty bits on his coat.
Origin:
1600–10; lint + -y 1
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lint   (lĭnt)   
n.  

  1. Clinging bits of fiber and fluff; fuzz.

  2. Downy material obtained by scraping linen cloth and used for dressing wounds.

  3. The mass of soft fibers surrounding the seeds of unginned cotton.


[Middle English, variant of linet (from Old French linette, grain of flax, diminutive of lin, flax) or from Medieval Latin linteum, lint (from Latin, linen cloth), both from Latin līnum, flax; see lno- in Indo-European roots.]
lint'less adj., lint'y adj.
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