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Glairy vs Glair - What's the difference?

glairy | glair |

As an adjective glairy

is slimy like glair, or partaking of its qualities; covered with glair; viscous and transparent.

As a noun glair is

egg-white, especially as used in various industrial preparations.

As a verb glair is

to smear with egg-white.

glairy

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Slimy. Like glair, or partaking of its qualities; covered with glair; viscous and transparent.
    • (Wiseman)
    (Webster 1913)

    glair

    English

    Alternative forms

    * glaire

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Egg-white, especially as used in various industrial preparations.
  • Any viscous, slimy substance.
  • * 1974 , Guy Davenport, Tatlin! :
    • She jacked with authority, knowing how to slick the glair over the glans with her thumb when it began to flow, how to pace a shaftlength voluptuous stroke with a whole slide from meatus to os pubis, how to work with a loving will.
  • A broadsword fixed on a pike; a kind of halberd.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To smear with egg-white.

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