Pulpiest

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. Having the most soft, moist, fleshy substance inside ; most crude and sensational in the style of cheap popular fiction
2. Abounding most in soft, juicy flesh ; rendered most lurid and melodramatic, as cheap magazine stories often are
3. Richest in soft, mushy fibrous matter ; most tawdry, lurid and sensational in content and manner

Etymology: "Pulpiest" is the superlative of "pulpy", so the story really belongs to its base word. "Pulp" comes from Latin "pulpa", meaning flesh or soft fleshy matter, and entered English as a term for the soft, moist part of fruit and, later, for the mashed fibrous material used in papermaking. The "-y" ending that turns it into an adjective is an old Germanic suffix, traceable back through Old English and Middle English, that means "having the quality of" or "full of", so "pulpy" describes something full of pulp. The superlative "pulpiest" follows the usual English pattern: the adjective ends in "-y", so the form is built with "-iest" and means "most pulpy". Its meaning has stayed close to its physical source, referring to soft, fleshy, or mushy material, most often fruit.

Synonyms: most pulpy