sizy

English

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Etymology

size +‎ -y

Adjective

sizy (comparative more sizy, superlative most sizy)

  1. Like size (weak glue or paste).
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter XIII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VII:
      […] which I expected to have found extremely sizy and glutinous, or indeed coagulated, as it is in pleuretic complaints;
    • 1861, Harold Havelock Kynett, Samuel Worcester Butler, D G Brinton, The Medical and surgical reporter: Volume 5, page 282:
      The cellular tissue of the front part of the neck and chest was infiltrated with a sizy, transparent liquid.
  2. Exhibiting size (the thickened crust on coagulated blood).

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