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adjectivegummiest, gummier ˈɡʌmiˈɡəmi 1Having a viscous or sticky consistency. Example sentencesExamples - It is, honest to God, the term for the gummy adhesive used to attach inserts to magazine pages.
- Raw silk fibres are naturally coated with a gummy substance called sericin.
- As usual, it would have been better without the gummy mushroom sauce, but this is as it ever was.
- Soluble fibers - gums, pectins and mucilages - become gummy in water.
- The least elegant was the vichyssoise, which had the bland, somewhat gummy consistency of whipped avocados.
- Bakery owners say despite the advent of new-fangled versions, nothing beats the classics, the ones oozing with gummy lotus seed paste and salted duck egg yolk to symbolize the full moon.
- Sassafras leaves contain not only sassafras flavour but also a gummy mucilage.
- While still gummy, use toothpicks to make holes at the tops for stringing ribbon through.
- ‘Dark cutters’ have lean that is dark red to almost black in color with a sticky or gummy texture.
- Add in the languid pacing and you've got a film that flows like gummy engine oil.
- Instead of twigs and straw, the swiftlet makes its nest from strands of gummy saliva, which harden when exposed to air.
- The only evidence was a report that a government-hired ‘expert’ had detected a gummy substance under the consoles of some trains.
- These were pleasantly rubbery but although punctuated by bits of juicy broccoli, Chinese leaves and dusted with ground peanuts, their mild sweet and sour sauce left them too gummy.
- Listed among its ingredients is gelatin, a gummy substance rendered from cattle carcasses.
- Soluble fibers dissolve in water to become gummy or viscous, while insoluble fibers hold on to water.
- The beverage, also known as bubble tea, consists of ‘pearls’ of black, gummy, tapioca balls that float in a mixture of sweetened iced tea.
- People soon discovered that their overshoes became stiff and brittle in cold weather, and that in the heat their raincoats dissolved into a stinking, gummy mess that had to be disposed of by burial.
- England is like that, except that their black boxes are 100 years older, so everything is more gummy and sticky and the couches backstage are that much more threadbare and the dressing room is in the beer cooler.
- Oil made locally for local use is generally not deodorized or otherwise treated, so is somewhat gummy and has a noticeable peanut taste; this is acceptable in, for example, African regional dishes.
- If it gets sticky or gummy, the finish is shellac and you can remove and re-melt the surface layers with some steel wool and alcohol.
- Despite the success of the amorphous sugar at inhibiting fat bloom, Hartel says that it could not be used in commercial chocolate because the sugar ‘picks up moisture easily and gives a gummy texture in the mouth’.
- Its thick, gummy oil has blackened hundreds of miles of coastline in Spain.
- A gummy substance that smelled of medicine covered her lips.
- If there is sticky or gummy soil to remove, try rubbing with baking soda on a damp cloth or sponge, or wipe with vinegar, rinse, and buff dry.
- The pods, which are typically ridged and tapering, but may be almost round, contain many small seeds and a gummy substance which gives okra its special character.
- All excess oil must be removed or it will attract dust and get gummy or tacky.
Synonyms sticky, tacky, gluey, adhesive, resinous, viscous, viscid, glutinous, mucilaginous British claggy Scottish & Northern English clarty informal gooey, gloopy, cloggy, gungy, icky North American informal gloppy rare viscoid - 1.1 Covered with or exuding a viscous substance.
Derivatives noun ˈɡʌmɪnəsˈɡəminəs When cooked, okra develops a gumminess that makes it a good thickener for soups and stews. Example sentencesExamples - To reduce the degree of gumminess in a product that currently shows that characteristic, several factors should be considered.
- However, too much stabilizer will result in gumminess and affect the final texture.
- Filé, a powder made from sassafras, may be used to add more gumminess.
- One thing all types of okra have in common is their gumminess, which is actually a feature of some Creole and Cajun dishes.
Rhymes Brummie, chummy, crumby, crummy, dummy, lumme, mummy, plummy, rummy, scrummy, scummy, slummy, tummy, yummy adjectivegummiest, gummier ˈɡʌmiˈɡəmi Toothless. Example sentencesExamples - Like her, many of the residents are Irish; gummy men with drink problems who ‘emigrated not through choice, stayed though reluctant, and never returned out of pride’.
- You know, with Katie, her biggest problem was that she had a gummy smile.
- The big heads and the little bodies, the huge eyes, tiny noses and gummy smiles - parents or not, we mammals come pre-programmed to respond to these characteristics with feelings of overwhelming protectiveness.
- He twists his head, exposing one rheumy malevolent eye and half a mottled, gummy mouth.
- He gurns his face effortlessly into a toothless, gummy washerwoman's grimace.
- He has gummy gaps in his grin, the result of a stint as a boxer in the 1980s (he moved to Minneapolis in '84, after losing a big match in Fort Dodge, Iowa).
- With its eyes closed, jaws wide apart and its entire armory exposed in a ghastly gummy smile, its head looked like a necklace of death.
- A gummy grin was her reward as Jeffery beamed at her.
- I mean, I think we're looking at a pretty narrow gene pool right here; something about that glassy eyed and gummy smile leads me to believe that everyone sat on the same side of the church at his folks wedding.
- ‘I want new head phones,’ moaned the boy, who Casey could see, had messy brown hair and a gummy mouth.
- Then he turned his big blue eyes on me and treated me to a big, gummy grin.
- He'd looked down at her and she'd given him one of her gummy smiles and for a moment I thought he was going to say something to acknowledge her.
- Modern cosmetic dentistry focusses on solving the problems of the gummy smile by guiding gums and re-contouring them for a better appearance.
- His humour is of the sappiest kind with as much bite as a gaggle of gummy grannies.
nounPlural gummies ˈɡʌmiˈɡəmi 1A small edible shark of Australasian coastal waters, with rounded teeth that it uses to crush hard-shelled prey. Mustelus antarcticus, family Triakidae Example sentencesExamples - But today he is singing the praises of a non-commercial creature - the humble eel, which he says has a unique flavor but can be best described to someone who has never tasted it as reminiscent of the taste and texture of gummy shark.
- The same mix works just as well with a firm textured fish such as gummy or cobbler.
2Australian NZ A sheep that has lost or is losing its teeth.
Derivatives adverb But she's a pragmatic sort of kid, and she has kept smiling gummily as she waits for a whopping great cash injection from the tooth fairy. Example sentencesExamples - She is gazing up at me, smiling gummily, ten months of content dimpling her cheeks.
adjectiveˈɡəmiˈɡəmē 1Viscous; sticky. Example sentencesExamples - Add in the languid pacing and you've got a film that flows like gummy engine oil.
- Raw silk fibres are naturally coated with a gummy substance called sericin.
- Bakery owners say despite the advent of new-fangled versions, nothing beats the classics, the ones oozing with gummy lotus seed paste and salted duck egg yolk to symbolize the full moon.
- The beverage, also known as bubble tea, consists of ‘pearls’ of black, gummy, tapioca balls that float in a mixture of sweetened iced tea.
- The least elegant was the vichyssoise, which had the bland, somewhat gummy consistency of whipped avocados.
- It is, honest to God, the term for the gummy adhesive used to attach inserts to magazine pages.
- England is like that, except that their black boxes are 100 years older, so everything is more gummy and sticky and the couches backstage are that much more threadbare and the dressing room is in the beer cooler.
- These were pleasantly rubbery but although punctuated by bits of juicy broccoli, Chinese leaves and dusted with ground peanuts, their mild sweet and sour sauce left them too gummy.
- The pods, which are typically ridged and tapering, but may be almost round, contain many small seeds and a gummy substance which gives okra its special character.
- Soluble fibers - gums, pectins and mucilages - become gummy in water.
- If it gets sticky or gummy, the finish is shellac and you can remove and re-melt the surface layers with some steel wool and alcohol.
- Listed among its ingredients is gelatin, a gummy substance rendered from cattle carcasses.
- All excess oil must be removed or it will attract dust and get gummy or tacky.
- Instead of twigs and straw, the swiftlet makes its nest from strands of gummy saliva, which harden when exposed to air.
- People soon discovered that their overshoes became stiff and brittle in cold weather, and that in the heat their raincoats dissolved into a stinking, gummy mess that had to be disposed of by burial.
- Despite the success of the amorphous sugar at inhibiting fat bloom, Hartel says that it could not be used in commercial chocolate because the sugar ‘picks up moisture easily and gives a gummy texture in the mouth’.
- Its thick, gummy oil has blackened hundreds of miles of coastline in Spain.
- The only evidence was a report that a government-hired ‘expert’ had detected a gummy substance under the consoles of some trains.
- Sassafras leaves contain not only sassafras flavour but also a gummy mucilage.
- Soluble fibers dissolve in water to become gummy or viscous, while insoluble fibers hold on to water.
- Oil made locally for local use is generally not deodorized or otherwise treated, so is somewhat gummy and has a noticeable peanut taste; this is acceptable in, for example, African regional dishes.
- While still gummy, use toothpicks to make holes at the tops for stringing ribbon through.
- If there is sticky or gummy soil to remove, try rubbing with baking soda on a damp cloth or sponge, or wipe with vinegar, rinse, and buff dry.
- ‘Dark cutters’ have lean that is dark red to almost black in color with a sticky or gummy texture.
- As usual, it would have been better without the gummy mushroom sauce, but this is as it ever was.
- A gummy substance that smelled of medicine covered her lips.
Synonyms sticky, tacky, gluey, adhesive, resinous, viscous, viscid, glutinous, mucilaginous - 1.1 Covered with or exuding a viscous substance.
adjectiveˈɡəmiˈɡəmē Toothless. Example sentencesExamples - Modern cosmetic dentistry focusses on solving the problems of the gummy smile by guiding gums and re-contouring them for a better appearance.
- Like her, many of the residents are Irish; gummy men with drink problems who ‘emigrated not through choice, stayed though reluctant, and never returned out of pride’.
- He has gummy gaps in his grin, the result of a stint as a boxer in the 1980s (he moved to Minneapolis in '84, after losing a big match in Fort Dodge, Iowa).
- I mean, I think we're looking at a pretty narrow gene pool right here; something about that glassy eyed and gummy smile leads me to believe that everyone sat on the same side of the church at his folks wedding.
- You know, with Katie, her biggest problem was that she had a gummy smile.
- With its eyes closed, jaws wide apart and its entire armory exposed in a ghastly gummy smile, its head looked like a necklace of death.
- The big heads and the little bodies, the huge eyes, tiny noses and gummy smiles - parents or not, we mammals come pre-programmed to respond to these characteristics with feelings of overwhelming protectiveness.
- Then he turned his big blue eyes on me and treated me to a big, gummy grin.
- ‘I want new head phones,’ moaned the boy, who Casey could see, had messy brown hair and a gummy mouth.
- He gurns his face effortlessly into a toothless, gummy washerwoman's grimace.
- He twists his head, exposing one rheumy malevolent eye and half a mottled, gummy mouth.
- He'd looked down at her and she'd given him one of her gummy smiles and for a moment I thought he was going to say something to acknowledge her.
- His humour is of the sappiest kind with as much bite as a gaggle of gummy grannies.
- A gummy grin was her reward as Jeffery beamed at her.
nounˈɡəmiˈɡəmē A small, edible shark of Australasian coastal waters, with rounded teeth that it uses to crush hard-shelled prey. Mustelus antarcticus, family Triakidae Example sentencesExamples - But today he is singing the praises of a non-commercial creature - the humble eel, which he says has a unique flavor but can be best described to someone who has never tasted it as reminiscent of the taste and texture of gummy shark.
- The same mix works just as well with a firm textured fish such as gummy or cobbler.
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