glairy

American  

[glair-ee] / ˈglɛər i /

Also glaireous

adjective

glairier, glairiest

1. of the nature of glair; viscous.

2. covered with glair.

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Other Word Forms

• glairiness noun

Etymology

Origin of glairy

First recorded in 1655–65; glair + -y ¹

Example Sentences

During this time it is absolutely inert, but at last the sac—for such it is—opens gently, and there is poured out a brownish glairy fluid.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 by Various

The smooth, rounded head of the thighbone, moist with glairy fluid, fits so perfectly into the smooth, rounded cavity which receives it, that it holds firmly by suction, or atmospheric pressure.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 by Various

The matters vomited consist of the ingesta colored with bile, of glairy mucus tinged with bile, or of green bile, sometimes in considerable quantity.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

And, while we are about it, you know that old Ingres turns me sick with his glairy painting.

From His Masterpiece by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred

Soon he has a hacking cough, worse in the morning, with a scanty, glairy sputum.

From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson