oily

Definition of oily in English English dictionary: Relating to oil; Excessively friendly or polite so as to sound insincere; Smeared with or containing oil; {a} containing oil, greasy, rich, glib, smooth; smeared or soiled with grease or oil; "greasy coveralls"; "get rid of rubbish and oily rags"; coated or covered with oil; "oily puddles in the streets"; Describes the vaguely fat, slippery sensation on the palate in contact with the combination of high glycerin and slightly low acid content Mostly encountered in high quality Chardonnays and late harvest sweet wines; disapproval If you describe someone as oily, you dislike them because you think they are too polite or say exaggeratedly nice things, and are insincere. He had behaved with undue and oily familiarity = smarmy; {s} greasy; soaked in oil; flattering; fatty; A term sometimes used to denote a coffee that has a roasted oily taste due to a high degree of roasting or an oily coffee having a greasy but not rancid taste; containing an unusual amount of grease or oil; "greasy hamburgers"; "oily fried potatoes"; "oleaginous seeds"; Wine of which the appearance and the consistency oil : it is a "sick" wine; One says of a soft and greasy wine when tasted; coated or covered with oil; "oily puddles in the streets; Consisting of oil; containing oil; having the nature or qualities of oil; unctuous; oleaginous; as, oily matter or substance; Oily means looking, feeling, tasting, or smelling like oil. traces of an oily substance; Smoothly subservient; supple; compliant; plausible; insinuating; Covered with oil; greasy; hence, resembling oil; as, an oily appearance; unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent"; "oleaginous hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the unctuous Uriah Heep"; Something that is oily is covered with oil or contains oil. He was wiping his hands on an oily rag When she was younger, she had very oily skin; unctuous; oleose; oleous
oily bitterling: A temperate freshwater fish of the Acheilognathinae sub-family of the Cyprinidae family that is found in central and southwestern Japan
oily bitterlings: plural form of oily bitterling
oily rag: A cigarette - by way of fag
oily rag: An employee in a menial, unskilled role in a factory or workshop. Named for such employees often carrying a rag with them to wipe up spillages of oil or grease
oily rags: plural form of oily rag
oily tongue: Flattering words
oily fish: (Denizcilik) Oily fish, oil-rich fish or pelagic fish are those fish which have oils throughout the fillet and in the belly cavity around the gut, rather than only in the liver like white fish. Oily fish fillets may contain up to 30 percent oil, although this figure varies both within and between species. Oily fish generally swim in the pelagic zones of the oceans
smell of an oily rag: A very small amount, or the absolute minimum (usually of money)
We did it on the smell of an oily rag, says Danielle Kootman of Tourism Queensland.
Oiliness: oleaginousness
oilier: comparative of oily
oiliest: superlative of oily
oiliness: The quality of being oily
oiliness: {i} degree of oil in a substance