greasedadj.
/ɡriːzd//ɡriːst/ 1.
a. Smeared, anointed, or lubricated with grease. greased pole = greasy pole (see greasy adj. Compounds 2). Phrase as quick as, or like, greased lightning (colloquial): used to denote extreme quickness of movement.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > greasy or fatty material > [adjective] > smeared or lubricated with grease
greaseda1529
liquored1611
larded1785
a1529 J. Skelton Poems against Garnesche in Poet Wks. (1843) I. 118 [Your] lothesum lere to loke on, lyke a gresyd bote dothe schyne.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Greased or dressed wyth grease or fat, ædipatus. Greased or anoynted wyth grease, vnctus.
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xx. 537 They rub Soot over the greased parts.
1789 Nicholson in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 79 273 Grease the cylinder by turning it against a greased leather.
1833 Boston, Lincoln, etc. Herald 15 Jan. 3/6 He spoke as quick as ‘greased lightning’.
1849 D. Campbell Pract. Text-bk. Inorg. Chem. 73 The mouth of the bottle is secured by a greased stopper.
1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe (1894) xiii. 306 Others..put it [mountaineering] on a level with the passion for climbing greased poles.
1880 G. B. Malleson Hist. Indian Mutiny III. 470 Sir John Lawrence arrived at the conclusion that the mutiny was due to the greased cartridges, and to the greased cartridges only.
b. figurative. Bribed.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [adjective] > of nature of bribe > bribed
subornate1431
bribed?1556
waged1561
feed1579
suggested1647
suborned1676
greased1693
bought1700
nobbled1876
fixeda1889
1693 J. Dryden tr. Persius Satires iii. 38 Envy not the store Of the Greaz'd Advocate, that Grinds the Poor.
c. (See quot. 1848 Cf. grease n. 4.)
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [adjective] > unmanufactured or unprocessed > greasy or unwashed
yolkyeOE
greasya1616
greased1848
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > [adjective] > containing oily matter
greased1848
1848 J. Arnould Law Marine Insurance II. iii. vii. 1025 The hides were found to be in a state of incipient putrefaction..; they were all, as it is termed ‘greased’, the hair coming off in the fingers of those who handled them.
2. Of a horse: Affected with ‘grease’.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [adjective] > disorders of feet or hooves
broken-hoofed1362
afounded?a1425
foundered1543
pumiced1566
hoof-bound1598
fretished1607
incastellated1611
wired1614
gravelled1630
grease-fallen1688
greasy1701
incastled1706
greased1710
scratchy1710
retraised1725
hot-footed1740
twitter-boned1760
quittered1778
thrushy1831
1710 London Gaz. No. 4695/4 A..Gelding..lately greas'd in the..Feet.
1720 London Gaz. No. 5831/4 The..Preparation of Antimony..cures Greased Heels.
1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy I. x. 43 His horse was either clapp'd, or spavin'd, or greaz'd.
c1785 T. Bewick Waiting for Death in A. Dobson Bewick & Pupils ix. 155 Becoming greased, spavined, [etc.], he was judged to be only fit for the dogs.
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