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silky adjective & noun2. LME.
[from SILK noun + -Y1.]
A. adjective.
Made or consisting of silk; silken. LME.
Having a material quality resembling that of silk, such as a delicate softness, a lustre, or a smooth texture. M17.
a. Of speech, manners, etc.: smooth, ingratiating, insinuating. L18.
b. Of a person, or a machine, mechanism, etc.: quiet or smooth in manner or action. E19.
Botany. Covered with soft fine close-set hairs having a silklike gloss; sericeous. L18.
silky oak any of several tall Australian trees of the family Proteaceae, esp. Grevillea robusta and Cardwellia sublimis; the silky-textured timber, similar to oak, of these trees.
Zoology. Having silklike hair, plumage, wings, etc. L18.
silky flycatcher any of several long-tailed gregarious insectivorous birds related to waxwings, of the genus Ptilogonys and related genera, e.g. the phainopepla.
b. noun. A spirit said to haunt houses in the form of a woman in a silk dress. local. E19.
silkiness noun M18.