glutinous
/ˈɡluːtɪnəs
/adjective
Like glue in texture; sticky: glutinous mud...
- Whereas in central and southern Thailand polished white rice is eaten, in the north and northeast people eat glutinous or sticky rice.
- A type of rice grown in the Far East known as glutinous or sticky rice contains no proteinatious gluten and owes its sticky nature to a waxy carbohydrate.
- The texture is very strange - gloppy, gooey, glutinous, and not that easy to manage with chopsticks.
Synonyms
sticky, viscous, tacky, glue-like, gluey, gummy, treacly;
mucilaginous, mucous;
cohesive, adhesive;
British claggy
informal gooey, gloopy, cloggy
North American informal gloppy
rare viscid, viscoid
Derivatives
glutinously
- Most of the starters had that flaccid, self-absorbed, glutinously expired quality of pre-prepared and bulk-produced portion control.
- He lit a further cigarillo, coughing glutinously as he did so.
- The resultant compound resembled a black paste, which clung glutinously to everything it touched and emitted a characteristic odour reminiscent of a cattle-market.
glutinousness
- The Chinese themselves tend to use tapioca when glutinousness is required, and arrowroot or sometimes cornflour when it is not.
- I think I was as proud of that little cup of glutinousness as ever a puppy was of the mess on the carpet.
- The clean rice containing a glutinous rice ingredient can provide a glutinousness for a desirable flavor of rice without being mixed with separate glutinous rice in cooking the rice.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Old French glutineux or Latin glutinosus, from gluten 'glue'.
Rhymes
- kingly
- kingmaker
- King, Martin Luther
- King of Arms
- king of beasts
- king of birds
- King of Kings
- King of the Castle
- king of the herrings
- king of the hill
- king penguin
- King Philip's War
- kingpin
- king plate
- king post
- king prawn
- kin group
- Kings
- King's Bench
- king's bishop
- King's bounty
- Kings Canyon National Park
- King's Champion
- King's Counsel
- King's English