Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Full of juice; succulent.
- adj. Richly interesting: a juicy mystery novel.
- adj. Racy; titillating: a juicy bit of gossip.
- adj. Yielding profit; rewarding or gratifying: a juicy raise; a juicy part in a play.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Abounding with juice; moist; succulent.
- In oil-painting, a word used to express a brilliant liquid quality of technic.
Wiktionary
- adj. having lots of juice
- adj. of a story, etc. exciting, interesting, or enticing
- adj. etc. strong, painful
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. A bounding with juice; succulent.
- adj. colloq. Very profitable, or presenting the prospect of much profit.
- adj. Very interesting, especially due to scandalous or salacious nature; -- of information.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. full of juice
- adj. having strong sexual appeal
- adj. suggestive of sexual impropriety
- adj. lucrative.
Etymologies
- juice + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“This is digusting and only serves to keep CNN and the news agencies in juicy trash talk which they are so good at creating.”
“I use a combination of beef and pork, which results in juicy, flavorful sausages.”
“Din Tai Fung is a chain from Taiwan that is well know for the Xiao Long Bao dumplings XLB or in English, juicy pork dumpling.”
“Hand-rolled skins contain juicy lamb patties flavored with herbs.”
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“What makes the whole scenario juicy is no one seems to know even how high a team needs to climb to land DiPietro and at what price.”
“I may not be able to use them for certain juicy or oily foods; but que sera.”
Mexico: a visit to Patzcuaro, Tzintzuntzan, Tequila and Mazatlan
“Odd smells, menstrual remnants, and "sharts" are the requisite spice sorely missed from today's so-called "juicy parts.”
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“You may not be able to break a juicy story ( "britney shaves head-again!") but you can pontificate on it ( "inside britney's shaved head").”
“Piggyback. You may not be able to break a juicy story (" britney shaves head—again!")”
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“Something new for the my space, face book crowd, a new social cyber college kid will say anything about anyone, the meaner the better in fact and it is all anonymous, it is called juicy campus.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘juicy’.
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Describing the Taste of Foods
yummy, zesty, piquant, pungent, sharp, spicy, poignant, delicious, ambrosial, appetizing, delectable, heavenly and 194 more...
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Y
What a -Y does to an otherwise common, dull word
zany, waxy, wavy, arty, chewy, bony, boxy, cozy, nosy, foxy, wiry, junky and 321 more...
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yummy
delectable words
literallydelectable, scrumptious, ambrosial, mouthwatering, piquant, juicy, luscious, heavenly, sapid, toothsome, succulent, savory and 10 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6689 more...
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Words We Dislike!
A list created for TRM, because there are certain words that we just kind of hate.
lover, fetus, smegma, saggy, coulomb, placenta, consumate, moist, sticky, bedroom suit, jiggles, blubber and 52 more...
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Scrabble words which start with the l...
juvenile, juvenal, jutty, jute, jut, justness, justly, justle, justify, justice, juster, just and 534 more...
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Fun Words
Words that are fun to say....
gobbledygook, jings, crivens, hullabaloo, wheech, brouhaha, pizzazz, harum-scarum, namby-pamby, pussyfoot, frippery, pitter-patter and 333 more...
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Flutter
tuberose, golden apple, apple cider, unicorn, extraordinary, Pleiades, Merope, speckle, glitter, rose, pitter-pat, whale and 314 more...
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africasunsets's list
serendipity, fragrance, glamour, smitten, nourish, lavish, luxury, wicked, gem, daring, soothe, fantasy and 192 more...
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Apples to Apples: Green Cards
A complete list of the green cards (adjectives) from the popular word game.
absurd, addictive, adorable, aged, American, ancient, animated, annoying, appetizing, arrogant, awesome, awkward and 237 more...
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curligirli0's Words
crapulous, swish, shiatsu, zen, xenoglossy, nincompoop, loquacious, pianissimo, onomatopoeia, imperturbable, silky, hosanas and 379 more...
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katiad's Words
exquisite, obnoxious, noxious, extravaganza, whirlwind, whirling, wild, spinster, existential, chaos, zephyr, blasphemy and 310 more...
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Favorite Words of AWP13
We asked attendees who visited the Wordnik booth what their favorite words were, and these are what they told us. (AWP is an annual conference for writers and those in the writing world.)
cling, declivity, susurrus, caramel, cataract, please, fester, reverie, kerplunk!, defenestration, colonel, ocean and 174 more...
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Some Words I Love to Use
arcology, strumpet, crux, confected, pedant, bluestocking, cogitation, incensed, lovecraftian, cygnet, dactyl, adytum and 539 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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favorite words
ennui, bonhomie, eschew, liaison, serendipity, lovely, dusk, kitten, epitome, sexy, beloved, darling and 396 more...
Tweets
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oroboros "Hey man, I'm looking for Paco, tell me if juicy him!"
Nov 4, 2008