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gluey, a.|ˈgl(j)uːɪ|
Forms: 4–5 gluwy, 6–7 glewey, glewie, gluie, 6–8 gluy, (7 gleiwye, 8 gleuwy), 5–9 glewy, 8– gluey.
[f. glue n. + -y1.]
Resembling glue; having the properties of glue; full of, or smeared with, glue; viscous, glutinous, sticky. In early use: † Bituminous.
1382Wyclif Gen. xiv. 10 The wodi valei forsothe had manye pyttis of gluwy [v.r. glewyche] cley. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. lvii. (1495) 172 In the fyrste joynynge of the bones is a maner of glewy and glemy moysture. c1420Pallad. on Husb. i. 75 And loke yf hit [a clod] be glewy, tough to trete. 1587Harrison England ii. xxi. (1877) i. 333 There is a kind of glewie matter which holdeth birds so fast as birdlime. 1695Blackmore Pr. Arth. iv. 104 Part is spun in silken Threads, and Clings Entangled in the Grass in glewy Strings. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) VIII. 99 Letting fall upon them a few drops of gluey matter with which their bodies are provided. 1884J. Colborne Hicks Pasha 180 A crass, gluey substance filled his throat.
Comb.1866–7Livingstone Last Jrnls. (1873) I. viii. 196 Gluey-looking gum.
transf. and fig.c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iv. xiii. (1869) 183 Ful of cley and arestinge, and glewy is þilke, of wordlich richesse of wurshipe, of strengthe of idel fairnesse. 1649G. Daniel Trinarch. To Rdr. 18 Till waken'd by the Clangor of fresh Quarts It breake the Gleiwye Prison, and vp-starts A fresh. 1663Cowley Cutter Coleman St. i. Wks. 1710 II. 813, I will not have one Penny of the Principal pass through such glewy Fingers. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) II. 446 It is possible to gain the art of grasping our ideas without letting them grasp upon the mind, or take such gluey hold as that we cannot wipe off at pleasure.
Hence ˈglueyness, the quality, condition, or state of being gluey.
1611Cotgr., Glueur, glewinesse, clamminesse. 1659tr. Comenius' Gate Lang. Unl. x. marg., Which..ropeth out by reason of its clamminess or gluiness. 1727in Bailey vol. II, Gluiness. 1733Cheyne Eng. Malady i. iii. §2 (1734) 16 This Class of nervous Disorders seems..to arise from a..Glewyness or Viscidity of the Animal Juices. |