oil painting

English

Noun

oil painting (countable and uncountable, plural oil paintings)

1. A painting done with oil paints.
2. (uncountable) The art of painting with oil paints.
3. (British, humorous, litotes, chiefly in the negative) A physically attractive person.
   • 1920, Henry St. John Cooper, “Sunny Ducrow”, in Putnam's, page 117:

     "Very lovely!" he said, staring her straight in the face.
     "You needn't try and be funny!" she said. "If you mean me, I'm no oil-painting, and I know it!"

   • 2007 "Virginia Trioli talks to George Brandis and Wayne Swan" Lateline ABC (Australia) 14 September 2007:

     Wayne Swan: All I can say is that she's a much more attractive person than the Prime Minister.

     George Brandis: You're not exactly an oil painting yourself, Wayne.

Translations

a painting done with oil paints

• Arabic: لَوْحَة زَيْتِيَة f (lawḥa zayteya)
• Breton: eoullivadur (br) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 油畫／油画 (zh) (yóuhuà)

• Dutch: olieverfschilderij (nl) f
• Erzya: оярт (ojart)
• Estonian: õlimaal
• French: ^{(please verify)} peinture à l’huile f
• Hungarian: olajfestmény (hu)
• Irish: ^{(please verify)} péintéireacht ola f
• Italian: pittura a olio f
• Japanese: 油絵 (ja)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: oljemaleri n

• Plautdietsch: Eeljbilt n
• Polish: obraz olejny m, olej (pl) m
• Portuguese: pintura a óleo f, óleo (pt) m
• Romanian: pictură în ulei (ro) f, tablou în ulei (ro) n
• Swedish: oljemålning (sv) c
• Vietnamese: tranh sơn dầu

art of painting with oil paints

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 油畫／油画 (zh) (yóuhuà)

• Czech: olejomalba (cs) f
• Estonian: õlimaal
• Finnish: öljyvärimaalaus (fi), öljymaalaus (fi)
• French: peinture à l’huile f
• German: Ölgemälde (de) n
• Greek: ελαιογραφία (el) f (elaiografía)
• Hungarian: olajfestmény (hu)
• Irish: péintéireacht ola f
• Japanese: 油絵 (ja) (あぶらえ, aburae)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: oljemaling m or f

• Portuguese: pintura a óleo f
• Russian: жи́вопись ма́сляными кра́сками f (žívopisʹ másljanymi kráskami), карти́на ма́слом f (kartína máslom)
• Swedish: oljemåleri n
• Turkish: yağlı boya (tr)