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单词 gluey
释义

glueyadj.

/ˈɡl(j)uːi/
Forms: Middle English gluwy, 1500s–1600s glewey, glewie, gluie, 1500s–1700s gluy, (1600s gleiwye, 1700s gleuwy), Middle English–1800s glewy, 1700s– gluey.
Etymology: < glue n. + -y suffix1.
Resembling glue; having the properties of glue; full of, or smeared with, glue; viscous, glutinous, sticky. In early use: †Bituminous.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > viscosity > [adjective]
thickc888
toughc1000
cleavingc1350
gluey1382
gluish1382
gleiming1387
gummya1398
clammy1398
gleimy1398
viscosec1400
viscousc1400
emplastic?a1425
plastery?c1425
stiffc1430
clamc1440
engleimous?c1475
rawky1509
rich1535
clammish1543
limy1552
strong1560
glutinous1576
cloggy1587
emplastical1590
viscuous1603
plasterish1610
slaba1616
bound1635
viscid1635
lentous1646
spiscious1655
melleous1656
salivarious1656
glutining1658
syrupical1659
glairy1662
gummous1669
gummose1678
mellaginous1681
melligineous1684
pargety1684
sticky1688
sizy1691
dauby1697
syrupy1707
treacly?1734
glaireous1755
flabbyc1780
spissid1782
stodgy1823
waxy1835
teery1848
treacle-like1871
viscoid1877
slauming1904
gooey1906
gloopy1929
gunky1937
gungy1962
yucky1975
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. xiv. 10 The wodi valei forsothe had manye pyttis of gluwy [v.r. glewyche] cley.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. lvii. 172 In the fyrste joynynge of the bones is a maner of glewy and glemy moysture.
c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 75 And loke yf hit [a clod] be glewy, tough to trete.
1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. xxi. i. 333 There is a kind of glewie matter which holdeth birds so fast as birdlime.
1695 R. Blackmore Prince Arthur iv. 96 Part is spun in silken Threads, and Clings Entangled in the Grass in glewy Strings.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VIII. 99 Letting fall upon them a few drops of gluey matter with which their bodies are provided.
1884 J. Colborne With Hicks Pasha in Soudan 180 A crass, gluey substance filled his throat.
in combination.1867 D. Livingstone 20 Feb. in Last Jrnls. (1874) I. viii. 196 Gluey-looking gum.figurative and in extended use.c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) iv. xiii. 183 Ful of cley and arestinge, and glewy is þilke, of wordlich richesse of wurshipe, of strengthe of idel fairnesse.a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia in Poems (1878) III. To Rdr. 128 Till waken'd by the Clangor of fresh Quarts It breake the Gleiwye Prison, and vp-starts A fresh.1663 A. Cowley Cutter of Coleman-St. i. v. 9 I will not have one penny of the Principal pass through such glewy Fingers.a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 370 It is possible to gain the art of grasping our ideas without letting them grasp upon the mind, or take such gluey hold as that we cannot wipe off at pleasure.

Derivatives

ˈglueyness n. the quality, condition, or state of being gluey.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > viscosity > [noun]
thicknessc1000
gleiminessa1398
gleimingness1398
glutinosityc1400
viscositya1425
threadinessc1425
gleimousnessc1440
clamminess1528
clammishness1528
yolkiness1528
toughness1574
viscousness1594
gumminess1600
gluishness1608
glueyness1611
viscidity1611
gummosity1651
tenaciousness1658
viscuousness1658
glutinousnessa1661
plasteriness1660
ropishness1662
snivelliness1662
ropiness1663
gummousness1666
stickiness1689
clam1694
viscidness1710
glairiness1866
treacliness1884
slabness1892
yuckiness1982
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Glueur, glewinesse, clamminesse.
1613 G. Markham Eng. Husbandman: 1st Pt. sig. C1v Hauing lost that glewinesse it is light, loose, and euen.
1727 in Bailey vol. II Gluiness.
1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady i. iii. 16 This Class of nervous Disorders seems..to arise from a..Glewyness or Viscidity of the animal Juices.
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