greasy
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greasy (comparative greasier, superlative greasiest)
- Having a slippery surface; having a surface covered with grease.
- a greasy mineral
- Shakespeare
- With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers.
- Containing a lot of grease or fat.
- 2012 May 3, Felicity Cloake, “How to cook perfect garlic bread”, the Guardian:
- Nigel and Richard Bertinet go for butter. Jamie and Nigella both opt for olive oil, and Garten uses a mixture, spreading the bread generously with butter, then topping it with garlic and herbs in olive oil. Oil, to my taste, simply makes the bread seem greasy: it's great for dipping, but it doesn't seem to soak into the bread in the same way as butter – I've probably just got hopelessly rich Anglo-Saxon tastes, but for me, it's butter all the way.
- 2012 May 3, Felicity Cloake, “How to cook perfect garlic bread”, the Guardian:
- (slang) detestable, unethical.
- 2004 April 25, “Trailer Park Boys epsiode "Rub N Tiz'zug"”:
- Julian: We're gonna fill the trailers up with furniture all right, boys, but we're gonna rent them out by the hour.
Bubbles: Aw, that's greasy.
- Julian: We're gonna fill the trailers up with furniture all right, boys, but we're gonna rent them out by the hour.
- 2004 April 25, “Trailer Park Boys epsiode "Rub N Tiz'zug"”:
- (obsolete) fat, bulky
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
- (obsolete) gross; indelicate; indecent
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Marston to this entry?)
- (of a horse) Afflicted with the disease called grease.
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having a slippery surface
