juicy

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/ˈd͡ʒuːsi/

adjective

Having lots of juice.

“a juicy peach”

CommonScrabble 17

Meanings

adjectivejuicy (comparative juicier, superlative juiciest)

comparative juicier · superlative juiciest · alternative rare juicey

  1. Having lots of juice.

    a juicy peach

    1 more example

    a juicy pot roast

    Synonyms: sappy, succulent, succulous · Antonyms: dry, unjuicy, dried, dried out, dried up

  2. figurativelyusuallyExciting; titillating.

    Near-synonyms: saucy, spicy

    5 more examples

    I do not keep up with all the latest juicy rumors.

    I like getting my teeth into a nice juicy problem.

    'Ah, but our conscience, my dear Bond. What shall we do with him while we are committing some juicy sin? That is a problem.'

    1953, Ian Fleming, “The Nature of Evil”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 145

    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.

    2014 November 12, James Martin, “Confessions of a Catholic priest”, in CNN

    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.

    2018 December 5, Chris Cillizza, “The 5 juiciest redactions in Michael Flynn’s sentencing document”, in CNN

    Synonyms: saucy, spicy · Antonyms: unjuicy

  3. uncommonusuallystrikeStrong; 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.

    1960, (P. G. Wodehouse, “chapter V”, in Jeeves in the Offing
    1 more example

    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.

    1960, P. G. Wodehouse, “chapter I”, in Jeeves in the Offing

    Antonyms: light

  4. slangMuscular due to steroid use.

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveHaving lots of juice.

adjectiveExciting; titillating.

Similar
Opposite

adjectiveStrong; thus, also painful.

Opposite

More synonyms by meaning

adjectiveabounding in juice

Opposite

adjectivehaving strong sexual appeal

adjectivelucrative

adjectivesuggestive of sexual impropriety

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Middle Englishjousy
  2. Englishjuicy

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

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Translations

Bulgarian сочен
  • сочен (sočen)containing juice
Catalan sucós, sucós
  • sucóscontaining juice
  • sucósexciting, interesting
Chinese Mandarin 多汁的
  • 多汁的 (duōzhī)containing juice
Czech šťavnatý
  • šťavnatýcontaining juice
Danish saftig
  • saftigcontaining juice
Dutch sappig, sappig
  • sappigcontaining juice
  • sappigexciting, interesting
  • smeuïgexciting, interesting
Finnish mehukas, mehukas
  • mehukascontaining juice
  • mehukasexciting, interesting
French juteux, croustillant
  • juteuxcontaining juice
  • croustillantexciting, interesting
German saftig
  • saftigcontaining juice
Greek χυμώδης
  • χυμώδης (chymódis)containing juice
Hebrew עסיסי
  • עסיסי (asisi)containing juice
Hungarian lédús
  • lédúscontaining juice
Icelandic safaríkur, safamikill
  • safaríkurcontaining juice
  • safamikillcontaining juice
Irish súmhar, méith
  • súmharcontaining juice
  • méithcontaining juice
Italian sugoso, succoso
  • sugosocontaining juice
  • succosocontaining juice
  • sugosoexciting, interesting
  • interessanteexciting, interesting
  • vivaceexciting, interesting
  • piccanteexciting, interesting
Latin sūcidus
  • sūciduscontaining juice
Polish soczysty, soczysty
  • soczystycontaining juice
  • soczystyexciting, interesting
Portuguese suculento, suculento
  • suculentocontaining juice
  • suculentoexciting, interesting
Romanian suculent
  • suculentcontaining juice
Russian со́чный, соблазни́тельный
  • со́чный (sóčnyj)containing juice
  • соблазни́тельный (soblaznítelʹnyj)exciting, interesting
  • захва́тывающий (zaxvátyvajuščij)exciting, interesting
  • волну́ющий (volnújuščij)exciting, interesting
Slovak šťavnatý
  • šťavnatýcontaining juice
Spanish jugoso, zumoso
  • jugosocontaining juice
  • zumosocontaining juice
  • jugosoexciting, interesting
Swedish saftig, spännande
  • saftigcontaining juice
  • spännandeexciting, interesting
  • raffligexciting, interesting
  • laddadexciting, interesting
  • saftigexciting, interesting
Thai ฉ่ำ, จุ๊ยซี่
  • ฉ่ำ (chàm)containing juice
  • จุ๊ยซี่ (júi-sîi)containing juice
Turkish sulu
  • sulucontaining juice
Ukrainian сокови́тий
  • сокови́тий (sokovýtyj)containing juice

Rhymes & wordplay

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