olive oily adjective5 •With olive oil.Heap onto hot olive-oily pasta. — 2003 •With olive oil.Enough oil to lightly coat everything…err on the side of more, it’s a south of France dish, it’s supposed to be olive oily. — 2013 •Resembling or characteristic of olive oil.A motherly woman lived there with her son, Luigi, a gay young man with an olive-oily skin, glistening teeth and a rubbery smile. — 1952 •Resembling or characteristic of olive oil.Off the heat, add the toasted pine nuts and roughly chopped parsley and taste for seasoning. It should be sweet, vinegary, olive oily and piquant. — 2015 •Alternative form of olive-oily. formsmore olive oily · more olive-oily · most olive oily · most olive-oily