dunkable
Any food item suitable for dunking.
Adjective
- Suitable for dunking (as of food).
- Just remember to keep the mixture thick; it should coat the dunkable items heavily. - 2006, Maida Heatter, Toni Evins, Maida Heatter's Book of Great Chocolate Desserts:
- They're milk-dunkable and sophisticated at the same time. I dare you to eat just one. - 2007, Shauna James Ahern, Gluten-Free Girl:
- Waterproof.
- The row upon row of half-inch, hand-plaited straw, handsewn, is eminently dunkable, a feature not only useful to the seafaring inventors... - 1961, Jeanne Harman, The Virgins: Magic Islands:
- Such cases let you use your dry-land SLR underwater, but cost enough that an inexpensive "dunkable" camera seems the choice except for perfectionists! - 1993, Lakeland Boating:
Origin
Etymology tree English dunk Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English dunkable From dunk + -able.
Forms
Noun
- Any food item suitable for dunking.
- Other dunkables besides bread cubes are chunks of apples and pears, grapes, cocktail wieners, cubes of boiled ham, shrimp, pitted olives, and tiny boiled potatoes. - 1984, Arthur Frommer, Darwin Porter, Frommer's...