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runny, a.|ˈrʌnɪ|
[f. run v. + -y1.]
a. Tending to run or flow; having the consistency of liquid, fluid, not set; soft, melting, watery; (of eggs, etc.) soft-centred.
1817Niles' Reg. XII. 165/2 This flour would prove similar to a previous baking of new flour (which was runny). 1904Eng. Dial. Dict. V. 185/2 Runny,..inclined to liquefy. 1913G. S. Porter Laddie vii. 210 He slid in a whole plateful of bread, another of cake... Then we took some of every thing that wasn't too runny. 1935M. Morphy Recipes of All Nations 73 A well-made purée should be almost ‘runny’—only just sufficiently thick to be eaten with a fork. 1937Evening News 23 Mar. 15/5 (Advt.), No runny butter or sour milk: no more waste. 1951Good Housek. Home Encycl. 524/1 A ‘runny’ jelly is very difficult to manipulate. 1957J. Frame Owls do Cry (1958) ii. 103 Haven't I told you..to leave the egg till it's..hard, that I don't like them runny? 1972K. Lo Chinese Food i. 43 Eggs are sometimes scrambled with minced meat, mushrooms, onions, lard and some good broth. The dish is called Runny Yellow Egg (Liu Huang Ts'ai), and is another good runny dish to eat with rice.
b. Of the nose: running, discharging mucus.
1951J. Steinbeck Log from ‘Sea of Cortez’ p. xxxii, She was a red-eyed..woman with a runny nose. 1969A. Lurie Real People (1970) 85 All he had produced so far was a slow pathetic drip and trickle, as if the fat marble cherub poised above the marble bowl had a bad runny nose.
Hence ˈrunny-ˌnosed a.
1972J. Wilson Hide & Seek ii. 32 A couple of runny-nosed children..tried to get on [the roundabout] too. 1976M. Hartmann Leap for Sun i. 28 Big-arsed nannies squatting on the pavements surrounded by runny-nosed kids. |