sizy
English
Alternative forms
- sizey
Etymology
size + -y
Adjective
sizy (comparative more sizy, superlative most sizy)
- Like size (weak glue or paste).
- 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter XIII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292, book VII:
- […] which I expected to have found extremely sizy and glutinous, or indeed coagulated, as it is in pleuretic complaints;
- 1861, Harold Havelock Kynett, Samuel Worcester Butler, D G Brinton, The Medical and surgical reporter: Volume 5 (page 282)
- The cellular tissue of the front part of the neck and chest was infiltrated with a sizy, transparent liquid.
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- Exhibiting size (the thickened crust on coagulated blood).
Derived terms
- siziness