"greasy" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈɡɹi.si/ [General-American], /ˈɡɹi.zi/ [General-American], /ˈɡɹiː.si/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈɡɹi.zi/ (note: Scotland, Ireland, some speakers in Birmingham) Audio: En-au-greasy.ogg [Australia] Forms: greasier [comparative], greasiest [superlative]
Rhymes: -iːsi, -iːzi Etymology: From Middle English gresi, gressy, equivalent to grease + -y. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|gresi}} Middle English gresi, {{m|enm|gressy}} gressy, {{suffix|en|grease|y}} grease + -y Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} greasy (comparative greasier, superlative greasiest)
  1. Having a slippery surface; having a surface covered with grease. Translations (having a slippery surface): دُهْنِيّ (duhniyy) (Arabic), хлъзгав (hlǎzgav) (Bulgarian), greixós (Catalan), (Chinese Mandarin), (nì) (Chinese Mandarin), mastný (Czech), grasa (Esperanto), rasvainen (Finnish), öljyinen (Finnish), öljymäinen (Finnish), ont (Friulian), schmierig (German), rutschig (German), שַׁמְנוּנִי (Hebrew), fitugur (Icelandic), gréisceach (Irish), viscido (Italian), unctus (Latin), engordurado (Portuguese), жи́рный (žírnyj) (Russian), са́льный (sálʹnyj) (Russian), ско́льзкий (skólʹzkij) (english: slippery) (Russian), grasiento (Spanish), grasoso (Spanish), graso (Spanish), resbaloso (Spanish), yağlı (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-greasy-en-adj-gvBUxrCW Disambiguation of 'having a slippery surface': 96 1 1 0 0 1
  2. Containing a lot of grease or fat. Translations (Containing a lot of grease or fat): λιπαρός (liparós) (Ancient Greek), мазен (mazen) (Bulgarian), тлъст (tlǎst) (Bulgarian), mastný (Czech), rasvainen (Finnish), fettig (German), zsíros (Hungarian), bealaithe (Irish), gréisceach (Irish), hinuhinu (Maori), tłusty (Polish), ociekający tłuszczem (Polish), flottig (Swedish), масни́й (masnýj) (Ukrainian), мастки́й (mastkýj) (Ukrainian), са́льний (sálʹnyj) (Ukrainian), жи́рний (žýrnyj) (Ukrainian), seimlyd (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-greasy-en-adj-mnYHM~2n Disambiguation of 'Containing a lot of grease or fat': 5 86 0 3 0 6
  3. (slang) Shady, sketchy, dodgy, detestable, unethical. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-greasy-en-adj-y51yscnA Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -y Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 5 73 6 4 6 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y: 10 11 59 0 6 13
  4. (obsolete) Fat, bulky. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-greasy-en-adj-hioneXj3
  5. (obsolete) Gross; indelicate; indecent. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-greasy-en-adj-YclCvt8H
  6. (of a horse) Afflicted with the disease called grease.
    Sense id: en-greasy-en-adj-GVunemIq
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: greasily, greasiness, greasy kid's stuff, greasy pole, greasy spoon, nongreasy, ungreasy

Inflected forms

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          "text": "a greasy mineral",
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          "ref": "1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, London: André Deutsch, Part One, Chapter 2, p. 54",
          "text": "it was in the garage that Alec worked, […] doing mysterious greasy things. Grease blackened his hairy legs; grease had turned his white canvas shoes black; grease blackened his hands even beyond the wrist; grease made his short working trousers black and stiff. Yet he had the gift, which Mr Biswas admired, of being able to hold a cigarette between greasy fingers and greasy lips without staining it.",
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          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "having a slippery surface",
          "word": "grasa"
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          "sense": "having a slippery surface",
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          "sense": "having a slippery surface",
          "word": "öljyinen"
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          "sense": "having a slippery surface",
          "word": "ont"
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          "_dis1": "96 1 1 0 0 1",
          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "having a slippery surface",
          "word": "schmierig"
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          "code": "he",
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          "sense": "having a slippery surface",
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          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "having a slippery surface",
          "word": "fitugur"
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          "sense": "having a slippery surface",
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          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "having a slippery surface",
          "word": "viscido"
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          "_dis1": "96 1 1 0 0 1",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "having a slippery surface",
          "word": "unctus"
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          "sense": "having a slippery surface",
          "word": "engordurado"
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          "sense": "having a slippery surface",
          "word": "ско́льзкий"
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          "code": "es",
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          "sense": "having a slippery surface",
          "word": "grasiento"
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "having a slippery surface",
          "word": "grasoso"
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          "sense": "having a slippery surface",
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          "text": "c. 1795, Margaret Taylor, Mrs. Taylor’s Family Companion: or The Whole Art of Cookery Display’d, London: W. Lane, “To fry flat Fish,” p. 37,\nBefore you dish them up, lay them upon a drainer before the fire sloping, for two or three minutes, which will prevent their eating greasy."
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        {
          "ref": "2010, Gavin Hoffen, Dandelion, page 3",
          "text": "With a skin full of alcohol and a probable overwhelming desire for a greasy kebab, I had evidently got myself into such a state that I was unable to locate the correct door to the fast food shop.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "2012 May 3, Felicity Cloake, “How to cook perfect garlic bread”, in the Guardian",
          "text": "Nigel and Richard Bertinet go for butter. Jamie and Nigella both opt for olive oil, and Garten uses a mixture, spreading the bread generously with butter, then topping it with garlic and herbs in olive oil. Oil, to my taste, simply makes the bread seem greasy: it's great for dipping, but it doesn't seem to soak into the bread in the same way as butter – I've probably just got hopelessly rich Anglo-Saxon tastes, but for me, it's butter all the way.",
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          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "Containing a lot of grease or fat",
          "word": "fettig"
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          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "liparós",
          "sense": "Containing a lot of grease or fat",
          "word": "λιπαρός"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 86 0 3 0 6",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "Containing a lot of grease or fat",
          "word": "zsíros"
        },
        {
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          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "Containing a lot of grease or fat",
          "word": "bealaithe"
        },
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          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "Containing a lot of grease or fat",
          "word": "gréisceach"
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        {
          "_dis1": "5 86 0 3 0 6",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "Containing a lot of grease or fat",
          "word": "hinuhinu"
        },
        {
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "Containing a lot of grease or fat",
          "word": "tłusty"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 86 0 3 0 6",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "Containing a lot of grease or fat",
          "word": "ociekający tłuszczem"
        },
        {
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          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "Containing a lot of grease or fat",
          "word": "flottig"
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          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "masnýj",
          "sense": "Containing a lot of grease or fat",
          "word": "масни́й"
        },
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          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "mastkýj",
          "sense": "Containing a lot of grease or fat",
          "word": "мастки́й"
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        {
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          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "sálʹnyj",
          "sense": "Containing a lot of grease or fat",
          "word": "са́льний"
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          "sense": "Containing a lot of grease or fat",
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        {
          "ref": "2004 April 25, “Trailer Park Boys episode \"Rub N Tiz'zug\"”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)",
          "text": "Julian: We're gonna fill the trailers up with furniture all right, boys, but we're gonna rent them out by the hour.\nBubbles: Aw, that's greasy.",
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        {
          "ref": "1601, John Marston, Jack Drum’s Entertainment, London: Richard Olive, act I",
          "text": "Now I am perfect hate, I lou’d but three things in the world, Philosophy, Thrift, and my self. Thou hast made me hate Philosophy. A Vsurers greasie Codpeece made me loath Thrift: but if all the Brewers Iades in the town can drug me from loue of my selfe, they shall doo more then e’re the seuen wise men of Greece could […]",
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        "(obsolete) Gross; indelicate; indecent."
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        "(of a horse) Afflicted with the disease called grease."
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      "ipa": "/ˈɡɹi.zi/",
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    "English terms suffixed with -y",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "Rhymes:English/iːsi",
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    {
      "word": "greasy kid's stuff"
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      "word": "greasy pole"
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    {
      "word": "greasy spoon"
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      "expansion": "greasy (comparative greasier, superlative greasiest)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "a greasy mineral",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, London: André Deutsch, Part One, Chapter 2, p. 54",
          "text": "it was in the garage that Alec worked, […] doing mysterious greasy things. Grease blackened his hairy legs; grease had turned his white canvas shoes black; grease blackened his hands even beyond the wrist; grease made his short working trousers black and stiff. Yet he had the gift, which Mr Biswas admired, of being able to hold a cigarette between greasy fingers and greasy lips without staining it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having a slippery surface; having a surface covered with grease."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "slippery",
          "slippery"
        ],
        [
          "grease",
          "grease"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "c. 1795, Margaret Taylor, Mrs. Taylor’s Family Companion: or The Whole Art of Cookery Display’d, London: W. Lane, “To fry flat Fish,” p. 37,\nBefore you dish them up, lay them upon a drainer before the fire sloping, for two or three minutes, which will prevent their eating greasy."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Gavin Hoffen, Dandelion, page 3",
          "text": "With a skin full of alcohol and a probable overwhelming desire for a greasy kebab, I had evidently got myself into such a state that I was unable to locate the correct door to the fast food shop.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 May 3, Felicity Cloake, “How to cook perfect garlic bread”, in the Guardian",
          "text": "Nigel and Richard Bertinet go for butter. Jamie and Nigella both opt for olive oil, and Garten uses a mixture, spreading the bread generously with butter, then topping it with garlic and herbs in olive oil. Oil, to my taste, simply makes the bread seem greasy: it's great for dipping, but it doesn't seem to soak into the bread in the same way as butter – I've probably just got hopelessly rich Anglo-Saxon tastes, but for me, it's butter all the way.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Containing a lot of grease or fat."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "grease",
          "grease"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004 April 25, “Trailer Park Boys episode \"Rub N Tiz'zug\"”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)",
          "text": "Julian: We're gonna fill the trailers up with furniture all right, boys, but we're gonna rent them out by the hour.\nBubbles: Aw, that's greasy.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Shady, sketchy, dodgy, detestable, unethical."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Shady",
          "shady"
        ],
        [
          "sketchy",
          "sketchy"
        ],
        [
          "dodgy",
          "dodgy"
        ],
        [
          "detestable",
          "detestable"
        ],
        [
          "unethical",
          "unethical"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) Shady, sketchy, dodgy, detestable, unethical."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Fat, bulky."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Fat",
          "fat"
        ],
        [
          "bulky",
          "bulky"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) Fat, bulky."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1601, John Marston, Jack Drum’s Entertainment, London: Richard Olive, act I",
          "text": "Now I am perfect hate, I lou’d but three things in the world, Philosophy, Thrift, and my self. Thou hast made me hate Philosophy. A Vsurers greasie Codpeece made me loath Thrift: but if all the Brewers Iades in the town can drug me from loue of my selfe, they shall doo more then e’re the seuen wise men of Greece could […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Gross; indelicate; indecent."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Gross",
          "gross"
        ],
        [
          "indelicate",
          "indelicate"
        ],
        [
          "indecent",
          "indecent"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) Gross; indelicate; indecent."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Afflicted with the disease called grease."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "grease",
          "grease"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of a horse) Afflicted with the disease called grease."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a horse"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɡɹi.si/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɡɹi.zi/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɡɹiː.si/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɡɹi.zi/",
      "note": "Scotland, Ireland, some speakers in Birmingham"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iːsi"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iːzi"
    },
    {
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/En-au-greasy.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "duhniyy",
      "sense": "having a slippery surface",
      "word": "دُهْنِيّ"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "hlǎzgav",
      "sense": "having a slippery surface",
      "word": "хлъзгав"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "having a slippery surface",
      "word": "greixós"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "having a slippery surface",
      "word": "膩"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "nì",
      "sense": "having a slippery surface",
      "word": "腻"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "having a slippery surface",
      "word": "mastný"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "having a slippery surface",
      "word": "grasa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "having a slippery surface",
      "word": "rasvainen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "having a slippery surface",
      "word": "öljyinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "having a slippery surface",
      "word": "öljymäinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fur",
      "lang": "Friulian",
      "sense": "having a slippery surface",
      "word": "ont"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "having a slippery surface",
      "word": "schmierig"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "having a slippery surface",
      "word": "rutschig"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "having a slippery surface",
      "word": "שַׁמְנוּנִי"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "having a slippery surface",
      "word": "fitugur"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "having a slippery surface",
      "word": "gréisceach"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "having a slippery surface",
      "word": "viscido"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "having a slippery surface",
      "word": "unctus"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "having a slippery surface",
      "word": "engordurado"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "žírnyj",
      "sense": "having a slippery surface",
      "word": "жи́рный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sálʹnyj",
      "sense": "having a slippery surface",
      "word": "са́льный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "slippery",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "skólʹzkij",
      "sense": "having a slippery surface",
      "word": "ско́льзкий"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "having a slippery surface",
      "word": "grasiento"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "having a slippery surface",
      "word": "grasoso"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "having a slippery surface",
      "word": "graso"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "having a slippery surface",
      "word": "resbaloso"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "having a slippery surface",
      "word": "yağlı"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "mazen",
      "sense": "Containing a lot of grease or fat",
      "word": "мазен"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "tlǎst",
      "sense": "Containing a lot of grease or fat",
      "word": "тлъст"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "Containing a lot of grease or fat",
      "word": "mastný"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Containing a lot of grease or fat",
      "word": "rasvainen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Containing a lot of grease or fat",
      "word": "fettig"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "liparós",
      "sense": "Containing a lot of grease or fat",
      "word": "λιπαρός"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "Containing a lot of grease or fat",
      "word": "zsíros"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "Containing a lot of grease or fat",
      "word": "bealaithe"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "Containing a lot of grease or fat",
      "word": "gréisceach"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "Containing a lot of grease or fat",
      "word": "hinuhinu"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Containing a lot of grease or fat",
      "word": "tłusty"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Containing a lot of grease or fat",
      "word": "ociekający tłuszczem"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "Containing a lot of grease or fat",
      "word": "flottig"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "masnýj",
      "sense": "Containing a lot of grease or fat",
      "word": "масни́й"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "mastkýj",
      "sense": "Containing a lot of grease or fat",
      "word": "мастки́й"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "sálʹnyj",
      "sense": "Containing a lot of grease or fat",
      "word": "са́льний"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "žýrnyj",
      "sense": "Containing a lot of grease or fat",
      "word": "жи́рний"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "Containing a lot of grease or fat",
      "word": "seimlyd"
    }
  ],
  "word": "greasy"
}

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