gluey

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.

Synonyms

• sticky
• gummy
• tacky

Translations

viscous and adhesive, as glue

Bulgarian: лепкав (bg) (lepkav) Chinese: Mandarin: 膠狀 (zh), 胶状 (zh) (jiāozhuàng), 膠質 (zh), 胶质 (zh) (jiāozhì), 粘著, 粘着 (zh) (niánzhuó) Finnish: tahmainen, tahmea (fi) German: klebrig (de)

Hungarian: enyves (hu), ragadós (hu), ragacsos (hu) Irish: gliúch Romanian: lipicios (ro) Spanish: pegajoso (es) Swedish: klibbig (sv)