Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Affected by rheum; full of rheum or watery matter.
  • Causing rheum.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to rheum; abounding in, or causing, rheum; affected with rheum.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective of, relating to, or producing rheum from the mucous membranes; watery

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective moist, damp, wet (especially of air)
  • adjective of or pertaining to arthritis

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Examples

  • Was the kind of rheumy old man that gave me the stink-eye and made it Very Clear that he thought a) only Masters students should really be considered for his program, and b) that he didn’t respect my subfield and didn’t think what I was writing about was important at all.

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  • He was a sagging man of 65 or 70; his eyes were rheumy and his nose spider-webbed with disintegrating capillaries.

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  • He approached the skittish animal once more and it backed away again, its rheumy red eyes wild with fear, until it was perched at the very lip of the precipice.

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  • With rheumy eyes they saw to his needs, with palsied hands filling his glass or striking him on the back between the shoulders when death stirred and he coughed and gasped.

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  • Milton has a wide-fitting loafer in the door of the future and a rheumy eye on Sylvia's support hose.

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  • If the good senator is looking at the Administrations nominee's with a rheumy eye, then maybe the hair on the back of our neck's should be standing up.

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  • Instead, you find yourself outraged by the fact that in the course of an average working day these already unattractive garments soak up tens of billions of endemic, playfully airborne, hospital-dependent microbes issuing from the rheumy pipes and tubes of the chronically ill.

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  • But one glance at the wrinkled-map face, and the single rheumy eye peering over the top of the bifocal lens would also have told you that the braces and baggy trousers were inevitable.

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  • Behind those rheumy eyes, the game knee, the bad hip, or whatever—Frankie, the fastest kid in eighth grade.

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  • But one glance at the wrinkled-map face, and the single rheumy eye peering over the top of the bifocal lens would also have told you that the braces and baggy trousers were inevitable.

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