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Definition: Greased |
GreasedAdjective1. Smeared with oil or grease to reduce friction. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "greased" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonym: GreasedSynonym: lubricated (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: grease (mechanical engineering), grease lubricant (mechanical engineering), greasing (food & agriculture), lubricating grease (mechanical engineering). |
| Antonym: unlubricated (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Smoothness | Phrase: smooth as silk;Phrase: smooth as silk; slippery as coonshit on a pump handle; slippery as a greased pig. |
Velocity | Lightning, greased lightning, light, electricity, wind; cannon ball, rocket, arrow, dart, hydrargyrum, quicksilver; telegraph, express train; torrent. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Greased |
| English words defined with "greased": bikers ♦ rockers ♦ Sauter. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "greased": Anoint ♦ baker, cake, baker, pastry, Butter-fingers ♦ cake maker, COOK, PASTRY ♦ GOOSE RIDING ♦ PIG RUNNING, Presidency ♦ Vibrex grease table. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | There's nary an animal alive that can outrun a greased Scotsman (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) And keep your sword greased. (Erik the Viking; writing credit: Terry Jones) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Greased Lightning (1928) The Greased Pole (1918) Alias Greased Lightning (1915) The Greased Pig (1898) Greased Lightning (1977) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Erie or the greased pole. A new and amusing game. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | "This'll really be fun -- I greased the rails". Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Dick Pope of Winterhaven, Florida, making a perfect ski-jump from a greased plane, Miami Beach, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Greased pig race, Fourth of July, Vale, Oregon. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Carry Nation | Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Greased" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 70.41% of the time. "Greased" is used about 98 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 70.41% | 69 | 40,280 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 18.37% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 10.2% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 98 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "greased": slippery as a greased pig. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "greased": greased-up. | |
Ending with "greased": blood-greased, gravy-greased, lightly-greased, over-greased, sleet-greased, well-greased. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
greased lightning | 56 |
greased | 12 |
greased lightning lyrics | 11 |
greased lightning.com | 8 |
greased lightening | 7 |
greased lighting | 6 |
cleaner greased lightning | 4 |
ass greased | 3 |
greased up | 3 |
contest greased pig | 2 |
greased lightnin | 2 |
greased lighting lyrics | 2 |
greased lighting.com | 2 |
greased lightning midi | 2 |
cunt greased | 2 |
cleaner greased lightening | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "greased"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 上油 (Greasing, Oiled, Oiling). (various references) | |
Finnish | on hyvässä voiteessa (is well greased). (various references) | |
German | schmierte (smeared), fettete ein, abgeschmiert. (various references) | |
Hebrew | משומן (lubricated, octagon, oiled). (various references) | |
Hungarian | mint az olajozott istennyila (like a streak of lightning, like greased lightning). (various references) | |
Korean | 기름을 "르" (lubricated, Oiled). (various references) | |
Manx | smarrit (lubricated). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | easedgray.(various references) | |
Romanian | uns (anointed, greasy, unctuous). (various references) | |
Russian | смазанный жиром. (various references) | |
Swedish | smord (greasy). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "greased": degreased. (additional references) | |
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"Greased" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Garisenda, gearset, Gerassi, graised, greame, Greamsee, greas, greasey, greensted, greese, greeze, greisa, greize, grese, Greussen, groase, pregassed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "greased" (pronounced grē"st) |
| 4 | -r ē" s t | decreased, increased, priest. |
| 3 | -ē" s t | beast, ceased, deceased, East, feast, fleeced, leased, least, ne, northeast, pieced, policed, released, southeast, yeast. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dragees. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-g-r-s" | |
-1 letter: agreed, agrees, dragee, eagers, eagres, edgers, erased, geared, grades, grease, greeds, ragees, reseda, seared. | |
-2 letters: aedes, agers, agree, dares, dears, deers, degas, drags, drees, dregs, eager, eagre, eared, eased, edger, edges, egads, egers, erase, gears, grade, grads, greed, grees, raged, ragee, rages, rased, reads, redes, reeds, reges, sager, saree, sarge, seder, sedge. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-g-r-s" | |
+1 letter: degasser, degrades, degrease, deranges, disagree, dressage, grandees, grenades, presaged, ragweeds, regrades, restaged, saggered. | |
+2 letters: absterged, aggressed, degassers, degausser, degraders, degreased, degreaser, degreases, derogates, desugared, disagreed, disagrees, dressages, dungarees, endangers, estranged, gardeners, gauderies, gendarmes, gesneriad, gradeless, graveside, greensand, hardedges, headgears, raggedest, redamages, redargues, renegades, renegados, staggered, swaggered, tragedies, underages. | |
+3 letters: bedraggles, decreasing, degaussers, degreasers, degreasing, delegators, demurrages, denigrates, dischargee, everglades, gaberdines, gadgeteers, gadgetries, garderobes, garnisheed, germanders, gesneriads, gravesides, greasewood, greenheads, greensands, greensward, grenadiers, grenadines, orangeades, overdosage, raggedness, reassigned, regardless, renegadoes, rereadings, segregated, serenading, strangered, teargassed. | |
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