oleaginous
adj/ˌəʊ.lɪˈæd͡ʒ.ɪ.nəs/UK/ˌoʊ.liˈæd͡ʒ.ɪ.nəs/US
Etymology
Borrowed from French oléagineux, borrowed from Medieval Latin oleāginōsus (“oily”), from olea (“the olive tree or its fruit”).
- borrowed from oleāginōsus
- borrowed from oléagineux
Definitions
Oily, greasy.
- […] the use of Linseed-oyl, Tar, or such oleaginous Matter, tends much to their Preservation and Duration.
- Looking back, it seemed to me that a slight oleaginous mist was still hovering round the chair.
- His once-black hair had faded to the color of used steel wool and now covered his bony skull in a peculiar oleaginous fuzz.
Falsely or affectedly earnest
Falsely or affectedly earnest; persuasively suave.
- The oleaginous salesman convinced me to buy a more expensive car.
- Cruz was obviously analogizing Bernie Sanders to the Bolsheviks and Hillary Clinton to the Mensheviks. The oleaginous Texan is an erudite slyboots, but his history is off-kilter.
- The oleaginous Mike Pence, with his talent for toadyism and appetite for obsequiousness, could, Trump knew, become America’s most repulsive public figure.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for oleaginous. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA