juicy

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Scrabble points
17
Words With Friends
20
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈd͡ʒuːsi/

Definition of juicy

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Having lots of juice.
    “a juicy peach”
    “a juicy pot roast”
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adj

  1. Having lots of juice.
    “a juicy peach”
    “a juicy pot roast”
  2. (figuratively, usually)Exciting; titillating.
    “Near-synonyms: saucy, spicy”
    “I do not keep up with all the latest juicy rumors.”
    “I like getting my teeth into a nice juicy problem.”
    “If you’re looking for juicier confessions – that is, admissions of the kinds of sins unearthed on detective shows or reality TV – then you’ll want to look elsewhere. My sinning life is rather uneventful.”
    “Here are the five juiciest redactions from the Flynn sentencing document, with some context and a smidge of informed speculation about What It All Means.”
  3. (slang)Voluptuous, curvy, thick; sexy in those ways.
  4. (uncommon, usually)Strong; thus, also painful.
    ““Your head feels funny, doesn't it?” “It does rather,” I said, the bump I had given it had been a juicy one, and the temples were throbbing.”
    “Years ago, when striplings, he and I had done a stretch together at Malvern House, Bramley-on-Sea, the preparatory school conducted by that prince of stinkers, Aubrey Upjohn MA, and had frequently stood side by side in the Upjohn study awaiting the receipt of six of the juiciest from a cane of the type that biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder, as the fellow said.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English jousy, jowsy (“drunken”, literally “full of juice (liquor)”). By surface analysis, juic(e) + -y.

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