English

Adjective

greasy ‎(comparative greasier, superlative greasiest)

1. Having a slippery surface; having a surface covered with grease.

   a greasy mineral

   • Shakespeare

     With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers.

2. Containing a lot of grease or fat.
   • 2010, Gavin Hoffen, Dandelion (page 3)

     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.

   • 2012 May 3, Felicity Cloake, “How to cook perfect garlic bread”, in the Guardian:

     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.

3. (slang) detestable, unethical.
   • 2004 April 25, “Trailer Park Boys epsiode "Rub N Tiz'zug"”, in (Please provide the title of the work):

     Julian: We're gonna fill the trailers up with furniture all right, boys, but we're gonna rent them out by the hour.
     Bubbles: Aw, that's greasy.

4. (obsolete) fat, bulky

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5. (obsolete) gross; indelicate; indecent

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6. (of a horse) Afflicted with the disease called grease.

Derived terms

• greasy spoon

Translations

Anagrams

• gayers, gyrase, yagers