STREAKY (streakier, streakiest)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: streakier    , streakiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does streaky mean? 

• STREAKY (adjective)
  The adjective STREAKY has 1 sense:

1. marked with or as if with stripes or linear discolorations

  Familiarity information: STREAKY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STREAKY (adjective)

Comparative: streakier   
Superlative: streakiest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked with or as if with stripes or linear discolorations

Synonyms:

streaked; streaky

Context example:

fat legs and dirty streaky faces

Similar:

patterned (having patterns (especially colorful patterns))

Derivation:

streak (a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background)

 Context examples 

Then, at a grocer's shop, we bought an egg and a slice of streaky bacon; which still left what I thought a good deal of change, out of the second of the bright shillings, and made me consider London a very cheap place.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)