Glued vs Gluey - What's the difference?
glued | gluey |
(glue)
A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance.
(obsolete) Birdlime.
To join or attach something using glue.
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To cause something to adhere closely to; to follow attentively.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
Viscous and adhesive, as glue.
* 1984 , Herman Carmel, Black days, white nights
As a verb glued
is (glue).As an adjective gluey is
viscous and adhesive, as glue.glued
English
Verb
(head)glue
English
(wikipedia glue)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* bee glue * fish glue * glue code * glue plant * glue stick * glueball * gluey * marine glueVerb
- I need to glue the chair-leg back into place.
- His eyes were glued to the screen.
- So as I lay on the ground with my ear glued close against the wall, who should march round the church but John Trenchard, Esquire, not treading delicately like King Agag, or spying, but just come on a voyage of discovery for himself.
Derived terms
*Anagrams
* *gluey
English
Adjective
(gluier)- The daily diet consisted of a slice of black, gluey bread with tea and one watery soup with a few frozen cabbage leaves in it.