gluey

adj

Etymology

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

  1. inherited from glewy

Definitions

  1. Viscous and adhesive, as glue.

    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at gluey. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at gluey. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at gluey

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA