oily

  • 41oily — a. 1. Unctuous, greasy, oleaginous, sebaceous, fatty, fat, oleose, oleous. 2. Unctuous, smooth, glib, lubricous, oleaginous, supple chapped, plausible. 3. Supple, compliant, subservient …

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  • 42oily — adj 1. oil, oillike, oleaginous, oleoresinous. 2. greasy, greased, lubricated, lubricous, unctuous, unguinous, slippery, slithery, smooth; buttery, butyra ceous; fat, fatty, adipose, lardaceous, lardlike, lardy, pinguid, Physiol. sebaceous; soapy …

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  • 43oily — adjective Syn: greasy, fatty, buttery, rich …

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  • 44oily — oil•y [[t]ˈɔɪ li[/t]] adj. oil•i•er, oil•i•est 1) chem. smeared or covered with oil; greasy 2) chem. of the nature of, consisting of, or resembling oil 3) chem. of or pertaining to oil 4) chem. full of or containing oil 5) smooth or unctuous, as… …

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  • 45oily —   Hinuhinu, hinu, kūhinu, kelekele, kele, ūkele, liliha, lihaliha, niuniu, likoliko …

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  • 46oily —  Unctuous …

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  • 47oily — adj. (oilier, oiliest) 1 of, like, or containing much oil. 2 covered or soaked with oil. 3 (of a manner etc.) fawning, insinuating, unctuous. Derivatives: oilily adv. oiliness n …

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  • 48oily bitterling — noun A temperate freshwater fish of the Acheilognathinae sub family of the Cyprinidae family that is found in central and southwestern Japan …

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  • 49oily rag — noun a) An employee in a menial, unskilled role in a factory or workshop. Named for such employees often carrying a rag with them to wipe up spillages of oil or grease. b) A cigarette by way of fag …

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  • 50oily rag — n British 1. a disparaging term applied to inexperienced or incompetent motor mechanics who are assigned menial jobs such as wiping away grease 2. a cigarette. This piece of rhyming slang, from fag, was common in the 1950s but is now rarely heard …

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