oily
Covered with or containing oil.
Other meanings
Resembling oil.
Excessively friendly or polite but insincere.
Related words
- nonoily
- oilily
- oilyish
- unoily
- oiliness
- oily bitterling
- oily rag
- oily rice
- oily-wad
- smell of an oily rag
Word history
From Middle English "oylei".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “oily” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.