gluey
adjective
us
/ˈɡluː.i/ uk
/ˈɡluː.i/ gluier | gluiestMeaning of gluey in English
(Definition of gluey from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of gluey
gluey
His arms and legs were shrunken; his dark hair fell in gluey patches over his forehead, which looked too big for his body.
From Foreign Policy
But because of bitumen's gluey nature, it's difficult to extract.
From OregonLive.com
Mash with a potato masher, or a ricer if you have one (do not use an electric mixer or yucca will turn gluey).
From Dallas Morning News
There is usually found in grease a considerable amount of gluey matter, lime and water.
From Project Gutenberg
They had eaten all the cookies but one, which got wet and dissolved in a gluey paste.
From Project Gutenberg
The gluey stuff from the web still stuck to his soles, picking up small objects as he went along.
From Project Gutenberg
The "hotel" served up tough beefsteaks and gluey, blueish hot bread for breakfast.
From Project Gutenberg
The gummy and gluey materials have been transformed into sugar.
From Project Gutenberg
In the summer season, however, the coating became soft and gluey, and was not comfortable to walk upon.
From Project Gutenberg
Of the nature of glue; resembling glue; viscous; viscid; adhesive; gluey.
From Project Gutenberg
The trenches were gluey and sticky, and the "duck-boards" along which we traveled were afloat a good share of the day.
From Project Gutenberg
Instead of grasping the tin, my fingers closed on a sticky, gluey mass.
From Project Gutenberg
He was struggling violently in a thick, gluey substance.
From Project Gutenberg
It is its very richness in this gluey material, which renders it incapable of being made into bread.
From Project Gutenberg
Because there were no plankton, no animalcules, no tiny, gluey, organic beings in it to give the water the property of making foam which endured.
From Project Gutenberg
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