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Definition: Greasy |
GreasyAdjective1. Containing an unusual amount of grease or oil; "greasy hamburgers"; "oily fried potatoes"; "oleaginous seeds". 2. Smeared or soiled with grease or oil; "greasy coveralls"; "get rid of rubbish and oily rags". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "greasy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
Note: Greasy \Greas"y\, adjective. [Comparative Greasier; superlative Greasiest.]. (references) |
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Food & Agriculture | Odour of olive oil extracted in a plant where residues of petroleum, grease or mineral oil have not been properly removed from the machinery. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | Applied to the luster of minerals. Having the luster of oily glass, aselaeolite. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Greasy is a town located in Adair County, Oklahoma. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 387.Geography
Greasy is located at 35°40'41" North, 94°43'16" West (35.678115, -94.721152)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 52.9 km² (20.4 mi²). 52.7 km² (20.3 mi²) of it is land and 0.2 km² (0.1 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 0.39% water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 387 people, 133 households, and 109 families residing in the town. The population density is 7.3/km² (19.0/mi²). There are 146 housing units at an average density of 2.8/km² (7.2/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 36.43% White, 0.00% African American, 57.11% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.78% from other races, and 5.68% from two or more races. 3.10% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 133 households out of which 33.1% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 60.9% are married couples living together, 13.5% have a female householder with no husband present, and 18.0% are non-families. 16.5% of all households are made up of individuals and 7.5% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.91 and the average family size is 3.22. In the town the population is spread out with 26.4% under the age of 18, 10.9% from 18 to 24, 24.3% from 25 to 44, 26.1% from 45 to 64, and 12.4% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 35 years. For every 100 females there are 105.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 105.0 males. The median income for a household in the town is $23,750, and the median income for a family is $27,143. Males have a median income of $19,167 versus $17,375 for females. The per capita income for the town is $10,988. 17.3% of the population and 18.8% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 14.7% are under the age of 18 and 42.0% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Greasy, Oklahoma."
Synonyms: GreasySynonyms: oily (adj), oleaginous (adj), sebaceous (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Athletic sports, gymnastics; archery, rifle shooting; tournament, pugilism; (contention); sports; horse racing, the turf; aquatics; skating, sliding; cricket, tennis, lawn tennis; hockey, football, baseball, soccer, ice hockey, basketball; rackets, fives, trap bat and ball, la grace; pall-mall, tipcat, croquet, golf, curling, pallone, polo, water polo; tent pegging; tilting at the ring, quintain; greasy pole; quoits, horseshoes, discus; rounders, lacrosse; tobogganing, water polo; knurr and spell. |
Unctuousness | Adjective: unctuous, oily, oleaginous, adipose, sebaceous; unguinous; fat, fatty, greasy; waxy, butyraceous, soapy, saponaceous, pinguid, lardaceous; slippery. |
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Crosswords: Greasy |
| English words defined with "greasy": Antiattrition ♦ bunt ♦ edible fat, Elaeolite ♦ fat, feeling, Fixed oils ♦ Gieseckite, Grease moth, greasepaint, greasily ♦ Nephelite ♦ Pimelite, Pinguid, Powder-down feather, Praseolite ♦ Rock soap ♦ seborrheic dermatitis, seborrheic eczema, seborrheic keratosis, stinking smut ♦ tactile sensation, tactual sensation, Tallowy, Tilletia caries, touch, touch sensation. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "greasy": BACON FED ♦ COT, creeshy ♦ Dermatitis, Seborrheic ♦ fat clay, fat stone ♦ greasy feel, greasy quartz, Greasy Sunday ♦ Helvetia lace leather, Helvetia leather ♦ milky quartz ♦ QUOT ♦ SLUSH, SLUSH BUCKET, speckstone ♦ Waxes. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Greasy" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Finnish (oily). |
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Screenplays | Get Nick, that greasy wop, shistos, pezza thingy gomorrah Greek bastard, if he's stupid enough to still be on this planet (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) He'd be damned if any of the slopes were gonna get their greasy yellow hands on his boy's birthright (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary) I mean, come on, it looks like they just fell out of bed and put on some baggy pants and take their greasy hair - ew - and cover it up with a backwards cap and we're supposed to swoon (Clueless; writing credit: Amy Heckerling.) Show your greasy little Puerto Rican ass so I can blow it right off (Dawn of the Dead; writing credit: George A. Romero) That hardly seems just coming from a woman whose hair has never seen a greasy pot it couldn't scrub clean (Cheers; writing credit: Isaac Cronin; Wayne Wang) | |
Lyrics | DON'T DO ME GREASY OKAY (Come Back In One Piece; performing artist: Aaliyah) Easy i feel greasy when you squeeze me (Fatty Girl; performing artist: Ludacris) My hands are greasy (START ME UP; performing artist: Rolling Stones) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Greasy Gus (1967) | |
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Benjamin Disraeli | I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole! |
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Rody Kickham held the ball by its greasy lace |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Tom opened the hood and looked at the big greasy engine |
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Health | Until diarrhea subsides, try to avoid milk products and foods that are greasy, high-fiber, or very sweet. (references) | |
Stay away from fried, greasy, or highly spiced foods, too. They are irritating and can cause diarrhea and cramping. (references) | ||
Infants or young children should be tested for CF if they have persistent diarrhea, bulky foul-smelling and greasy stools, frequent wheezing or pneumonia, a chronic cough with thick mucus, salty-tasting skin, or poor growth. (references) | ||
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| "Greasy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Greasy" is used about 402 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) | 100% | 402 | 13,930 |
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Expressions using "greasy": greasy quartz ♦ greasy spoon ♦ greasy wastes ♦ greasy weather ♦ have a greasy shine ♦ make all greasy ♦ make greasy ♦ too greasy. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "greasy": greasy-haired, greasy-looking, greasy-pole, greasy-wool. | |
Ending with "greasy": non-greasy. | |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "greasy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | vetterig (fat, fatty), vet (fat, fatty, grease). (various references) | |
Albanian | me yndyrë, me lyrë, me graso, i yndyrtë, i yndyrshëm (fatty), i rrëshqitshëm (slippery, slippy, soapy), i lyrosur. (various references) | |
Arabic | مشحم (lubricated), مدهن (fatty), ناعم الملمس (soft), زيتي (oil, oily, ornamental, unctuous), دهني (adipose, fatty, fleshy, sebaceous). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | серив, разкалян (heavy, puddly), тлъст (adipose, fat, fatty, gross, pinguid, porky, puddingy, rank, rich, tallowy, unctuous), мръсен (bawdy, currish, dingy, dirt, dirty, filthy, foul, frowzy, grimy, hoggish, impure, messy, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, piggish, raunchy, ruddy, salacious, sleazy, sordid, squalid, unclean, unwashed, vile), мазнишки (saponaceous), мазен (fat, fatty, mellow, oily, oleaginous, pinguid, rich, sleek, slimy, soapy, treacly, unctuous, yolky), плъзгав (slippery, slippy). (various references) | |
Catalan | gras (fat, fatty). (various references) | |
Chinese | 膩 (tired of), 油腻 (Oily). (various references) | |
Czech | umaštìný, tuèný (bold, fat, fattening, fatty, plump), podlézavý (fawning), necudný (impure, lascivious, salacious, unchaste), mastný (fatty, oily, unctuous), kluzký (glassy, lubricous, slippery). (various references) | |
Danish | fed (fat, fatty). (various references) | |
Dutch | vettig (fat, fatty), vet (fat, fatty, grease), dik (bold, concentrated, corpulent, dense, fat, fatty, thick). (various references) | |
Esperanto | grasa (fat, fatty). (various references) | |
Faeroese | feitur (fat, fatty). (various references) | |
Farsi | چاپلوسانه (Silky), چرب (Fat, Fatty, Oily, Sebaceous, Unctuous), روغنی (Oily, Unctuous), روغن دار. (various references) | |
Finnish | tahmea (sticky, viscid, viscous), rasvainen (fat), limainen (mucous, slimy). (various references) | |
French | gras (GRAS), graisseux (greasily). (various references) | |
Frisian | fet (fat, fatty, grease). (various references) | |
German | schmierig (dirty, filthy, greasily, grimy, gungy, lubricious, oily, oozy, sleazy, slimy, slobbery, smarmy, smeary, smudgy, unwholesome), fettig (fat, fattily, fatty, greasily, lardy, oily, oleaginous), schmalzig (mushy, schmaltzy, sentimentally, sloppy, slushy), fett (adipose, bold, fat, fatty, grease, heavily, heavy, lucrative, luxuriant, obese, porkily, porky, rich, shortening). (various references) | |
Greek | λιπαρός (fat, unctuous). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שמן (adipose, buxom, corpulent, fat, fatty, fertile, fleshy, oil, robust, stout, thick, unctuous), שמ י (oily), שמ ו י (fattish, oily, unctuous), שומ י (adipose, oily), חלקלק (skiddy, slick, slippery, smooth). (various references) | |
Hungarian | zsíros (blubbery, fat, fatty, gross, oily, pinguid, unctuous), csúszós (glib, slippery, sloppy), zsírpecsétes, síkos (glib, slippery, slippy), pecsétes (stained), olajfoltos (oil stained), kenetteljes (oily, sanctified, sanctimonial, sanctimonious, unctuous). (various references) | |
Indonesian | berminyak (oily). (various references) | |
Italian | grasso (fat, fatty, fleshy, grease, gross, obese, pursy, tubby), untuoso (fat, fatty, lubricious, oily, sleazy, smarmy, smeary, smooth, smudgy, unctious, unctuous). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 脂ぎった (oily), 脂濃い (fatty, oily), 脂っ濃い (fatty, oily), 脂っ"い (fatty, oily), 油っ濃い (fatty, oily), 滑り"い (slimy, slippery), 滑り"い (slimy, slippery). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すべりやすい (slimy, slippery), あぶらぎった (oily), あぶらっ"い (fatty, oily). (various references) | |
Korean | 기름기 많은. (various references) | |
Manx | smarree (greasing, unctuous). (various references) | |
Norwegian | fettete. (various references) | |
Papiamen | vèt (fat, fatty, grease). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | easygray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | untuoso (buttery, oleaginous, soapy, tallowy, unctuous), gorduroso (adipose, fat, fatty, lardy, oily, oleaginous, pinguid, slick, smeary, tallowy, unctuous), gordo (bold, chubby, chuffy, corpulent, dumpy, fat, gross, loamy, obese, overweight, porky, purse, pursy, squabby, thick). (various references) | |
Romanian | gras (beefy, corpulent, fat, fatty, handsomely, oily, porky, puffy, pursy, rich, rotund, sticky, stout, unctuous, well fed). (various references) | |
Russian | сальный (bawdy, lardy, lewd, salacious, sebaceous, tallowy). (various references) | |
Scottish | siogach, mèith (as soil, corpulent; rich, fat). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sladunjav (churchy, saccharine, sweetish), mastan (fat, fatty, oleaginous, racy, rich, risque, scabrous, sebaceous, unctuous). (various references) | |
Spanish | grasiento (fat, fatty, greasily, oily, oleaginous), gordo (corpulent, fat, fatso, fatty, fleshy, plump, porky, portly, rotund, stout, thick, top), untuoso (fatty, lubricious, sleazy, smeary, smudgy, unctuous), grueso (bold, coarse, corpulent, fat, fatty, full, gross, heavy, hulking, thick, thickness). (various references) | |
Swedish | fet (adipose, bold, corpulent, fat, fatty, fleshly, fleshy, full-fed, lardy, obese, oily, pinguid, rich, thick). (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งเป็นน้ำมัน. (various references) | |
Turkish | yapışkan (adherent, adhesive, agglutinate, clamant, clammy, clinging, clingy, cohesive, gluey, glutinous, gummy, like a limpet, mucilaginous, ropy, sticking, sticky, tenacious, viscid, viscous), yağlı (adipose, fat, fatty, oiled, oily, oleaginous, sebaceous, smeary, tallowy, unctuous), yağcı (apple polisher, buttery, crawler, deadhead, flatterer, greaser, gushing, gushy, lickspittle, loader, obsequious, oily, oleaginous, reptilian, silky, sleek, slime, soapy, suck, sucker, toady), kaypak (elusive, lubricous, shifty, sleek, slippery, unctuous, unreliable), kaygan (lubricious, lubricous, slick, slippery, slippy, slithery), ele avuca sığmaz (impracticable, obstreperous, out of hand, rompy, uncontrollable, unmanageable, unruly), civa gibi. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сальний (lardy, oily, porky, sebaceous, suety, tallowy), непристойний (bad, bawdy, beastly, blue, coarse, dirty, fie-fie, foul, graceless, immodest, improper, impure, indecent, lewd, nasty, nubbly, obscene, off color, off colour, paw-paw, ribald, salacious, salt, scabrous, scurrilous, shameless, smutty, sultry, unbecoming, unchaste), жирний (adipose, bacony, beefy, bloated, creamy, fat, fatty, lardy, oily, oleaginous, pinguid, smeary, yolky), брудний (bawdy, beastly, black, chatty, dirty, dungy, filthy, foul, grimy, hoggish, lousy, mangy, messy, miry, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, puddly, sludgy, smeary, smudgy, smutty, sordid, sozzly, unclean). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | giây mỡ, ngậy trơn, lời nói (rodomontade, soapiness, verbalism, voice), dính mỡ bằng mỡ; như mỡ béo. (various references) | |
Welsh | seimlyd, brasterog (fat). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | crassus, pinguis, uncta, uncti, unctum, unctus, unctusque. (various references) |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | unctuosus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "greasy": nongreasy. (additional references) | |
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"Greasy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: geras, Gerassi, gleasy, graeci, gready, greas, greasey, greasie, greatey, greaty, greazy, greesy, Greigy, greisa, gresy, Gretsky, groaty, Grzesik, resay. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "greasy" (pronounced grē"sē) |
| 4 | -r ē" s ē | Creasy. |
| 3 | -ē" s ē | fleecy. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: gyrase, yagers. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-r-s-y" | |
-1 letter: agers, eyras, gayer, gears, grays, greys, gyres, rages, resay, sager, sarge, sayer, yager, years. | |
-2 letters: aery, ager, ages, ares, arse, ayes, ears, easy, eras, ergs, eyas, eyra, gaes, gars, gays, gear, gray, grey, gyre, rage, rags, rase, rays, regs, ryas, ryes, sage, sagy, sear, sera, yare, year, yeas. | |
-3 letters: age, are, ars, aye. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-r-s-y" | |
+1 letter: argyles, garveys, grayest, gyrases, gyrates. | |
+2 letters: drayages, grayness, greasily, greylags, kerygmas, larynges, resaying, ryegrass, savagery, staggery, strategy, synergia, voyagers, yardages. | |
+3 letters: estraying, gainsayer, garganeys, gargoyles, gossamery, gramaryes, greenways, layerages, layerings, nongreasy, paygrades, pharynges, playgoers, searingly, sergeancy, sergeanty, strangely, synergias, voyageurs, yearlings, yearnings. | |
+4 letters: androgynes, gainsayers, gesturally, graveyards, graybeards, grayfishes, graynesses, graywackes, guayaberas, gynandries, gynarchies, gyniatries, gyroplanes, hydrangeas, laryngeals, lawyerings, panegyrics, panegyrist, pargylines, raygrasses, respraying, ryegrasses, segmentary, serigraphy, sugarberry. | |
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