stringy

Etymology

From string + -y.

adj

1. Composed of, or resembling, string or strings.
2. (of food) Tough to the bite, as containing too much sinew or string tissue.
   The meat was quite stringy.
3. (of a person) Wiry, lean, scrawny.
4. (programming, informal) Resembling or involving text strings.
   The context refers to how you use an expression. You've actually already seen some contextual operations with numbers and strings. When you do numbery sorts of things, you get numeric results. When you do stringy sorts of things, you get string results. 2011, Randal L. Schwartz, brian d foy, Tom Phoenix, Learning Perl, page 56
5. (birdwatching) Of a sighting, unlikely to be accurate; probably based on a misidentification, whether innocent or deliberate.
   There are few birders who have not had stringy ticks on their lists at some stage. 1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 76