Sekirov Dictionary

oily

/ˈɔɪli/

adjective 3
noun 2
forms 3
phrases 1

adjective3

•
Covered with or containing oil.
- His clothes were apt to look oily and smell of eating-houses. — 1853
•
(figurative) Excessively friendly or polite but insincere.
- […] for I want that glib and oyly Art, To speake and purpose not, since what I well entend Ile do’t before I speake, […] — 1603
•
Resembling oil.
- There were no breakers and no waves, for not a breath of wind was stirring. Only a slight oily swell rose and fell like a gentle breathing, and showed that the eternal sea was still moving and living. — 1895

noun2

[in the plural] (informal) Oilskins. (waterproof garment)
•
A marble with an oily lustre.
- Lustered (also called lusters, rainbows, oilies, and pearls). — 1998

forms

oilies · oilier · oiliest

Phrases with oily

smell of an oily rag
A very small amount, or the absolute minimum (usually of money).

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