blottery

blotter +‎ -y

blottery (comparative more blottery, superlative most blottery)

1. Resembling blotting paper.
   • 1922, Leon Alfred Duthernoy, “Singing to Tens of Thousands: Impressions of an Artist During His First Radio Concert,” Radio Broadcast, Volume 2, No. 1, November 1922, p. 49,

     When I realized that that wretched little tin can was all that stood between me and the world, his wife and his family, there was an acute palpitation around the heart, and a dry blottery feeling in the mouth.

   • 1928, Robert Byron, The Station, London: Duckworth, Chapter 5, p. 85,

     Mark, a cheeping chorister of our schooldays, has retained, despite the blottery tenor that has displaced his treble, a habit of uttering with the suddenness of a ship’s siren, the less interesting of Schubert’s ditties.

   • 1950, Betty Macdonald, Anybody Can Do Anything, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, Chapter 14, p. 185,

     The announcements were pale green and on paper of a blottery texture which harbored no errors in folding.

   • 1974, Sue Kaufman, Falling Bodies, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, “Lights Out,” p. 244,

     […] she got up and groped her way to one of the windows, pulling up the blind. Blackness. Dense, blottery blackness except for the random, stabbing beams of headlights far down in the street below […]

   • 1982, Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb, London: Heinemann, Chapter 7, p. 38,

     Beka squeezed her way between shoppers, sacks of flour and rice, barrels and drums, until she reached a counter at the rear of the shop where Mr Gordillo stood slapping lard onto a piece of blottery paper on a creaky scale descending from a chain attached to the ceiling.