gluey

English

Etymology

From Middle English glewy; equivalent to glue +‎ -y.

Adjective

gluey (comparative gluier, superlative gluiest)

1. Viscous and adhesive, as glue.
   • 1984, Herman Carmel, Black days, white nights:

     The daily diet consisted of a slice of black, gluey bread with tea and one watery soup with a few frozen cabbage leaves in it.

   • 2018 July 19, Zoe Williams, “Can ditching meat and dairy open up new taste sensations? My week as a foodie vegan”, in The Guardian‎^[1], archived from the original on 29 August 2022:

     Substances float around each other until you crush them all with a blender. Add a bit of white miso, lemon juice, truffle oil, chives: survey your wreckage, which will be the wrong colour (cream with a hint of grey) and the wrong consistency (gluey).

Synonyms

• sticky
• gummy
• tacky

Derived terms

• glueyness
• gluily

Translations

viscous and adhesive, as glue

• Bulgarian: лепкав (bg) (lepkav)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 膠狀 / 胶状 (zh) (jiāozhuàng), 膠質 / 胶质 (zh) (jiāozhì), 粘著, 粘着 (zh) (niánzhuó)

• Finnish: tahmainen (fi), tahmea (fi)
• German: klebrig (de)
• Hungarian: enyves (hu), ragadós (hu), ragacsos (hu)
• Irish: gliúch
• Italian: colloso (it)
• Portuguese: grudento (pt) m, pegajoso (pt) m
• Romanian: lipicios (ro)
• Spanish: pegajoso (es)
• Swedish: klistrig, klibbig (sv)