gluey

English

Etymology

From Middle English glewy; equivalent to glue +‎ -y.

Adjective

gluey (comparative gluier, superlative gluiest)

1. Viscous and adhesive, as glue.
   • 1984, Herman Carmel, Black days, white nights:

     The daily diet consisted of a slice of black, gluey bread with tea and one watery soup with a few frozen cabbage leaves in it.

Synonyms

• sticky
• gummy
• tacky

Translations

viscous and adhesive, as glue

• Bulgarian: лепкав (bg) (lepkav)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 膠狀／胶状 (zh) (jiāozhuàng), 膠質／胶质 (zh) (jiāozhì), 粘著, 粘着 (zh) (niánzhuó)

• Finnish: tahmainen, tahmea (fi)
• German: klebrig (de)
• Hungarian: enyves (hu), ragadós (hu), ragacsos (hu)
• Irish: gliúch
• Italian: colloso (it)
• Portuguese: grudento (pt) m, pegajoso (pt) m
• Romanian: lipicios (ro)
• Spanish: pegajoso (es)
• Swedish: klistrig, klibbig (sv)