GREASY: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
| Pronunciation: | | 'greesee
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| Matching Terms: | | grease, Grease cock, grease monkey, greaseball, greased, grease-gun, greasepaint, greaseproof, greaseproof paper, greaser, greasewood, greasily, Greasiness, greasy spoon
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- [adj] smeared or soiled with grease or oil; "greasy coveralls"; "get rid of rubbish and oily rags"
- [adj] containing an unusual amount of grease or oil; "greasy hamburgers"; "oily fried potatoes"; "oleaginous seeds"
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| | Synonyms: | | dirty, fat, fatty, oily, oleaginous, sebaceous, soiled, unclean |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Greas"y\, a. [Compar. {Greasier}; superl. {Greasiest}.]
1. Composed of, or characterized by, grease; oily; unctuous;
as, a greasy dish.
2. Smeared or defiled with grease.
With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers. --Shak.
3. Like grease or oil; smooth; seemingly unctuous to the
touch, as is mineral soapstone.
4. Fat of body; bulky. [R.] --Shak.
5. Gross; indelicate; indecent. [Obs.] --Marston.
6. (Far.) Affected with the disease called {grease}; as, the
heels of a horse. See {Grease}, n., 2.
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| | Related Terms: | | adipose, blubbery, buttery, butyraceous, chrismal, chrismatory, fat, fatty, fawning, glib, greased, lardaceous, lardy, lubric, lubricated, lubricious, mucoid, oiled, oily, oleaginous, oleic, rich, sebaceous, sleek, slick, sliddery, slipper, slippery, slippy, slithery, smarmy, smooth, soaped, soapy, suety, sycophantic, tallowy, toadying, unctuous, unguent, unguentary, unguentous, waxy |
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