callusy
English
Adjective
callusy (comparative more callusy, superlative most callusy)
- Resembling or featuring a callus or calluses.
- 1961, John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent, Penguin Books (2008), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
- A few days before, I snicked my forefinger with the curved banana knife at the store, and a callusy scab toughened the ball of my fingertip.
- 1991, Mary Gaitskill, Two Girls, Fat and Thin, Simon & Schuster (1998), →ISBN, page 187:
- Her eyes radiated the gentlest strength I had ever experienced, her tough, hot, callusy hands supported me with the full intensity of her life.
- 2011, Megan Abbott, The End of Everything, Reagan Arthur Books (2011), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
- I don't look at him, or even hear him anymore, but then I feel his big callusy hand on my wrist and my stomach somersaults and my breath rushes back into my mouth.
- 1961, John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent, Penguin Books (2008), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
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