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Juicy vs Watery - What's the difference?

juicy | watery |

As adjectives the difference between juicy and watery

is that juicy is having lots of juice while watery is wet, soggy or soaked with water.

juicy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • having lots of juice
  • a juicy peach
  • (of a story, etc. ) exciting, interesting, or enticing
  • I do not keep up with all the latest juicy rumors.
  • (of a blow, strike, etc. ) strong, painful
  • * 1960:' ''“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.'' (, ''(Jeeves in the Offing) , chapter V)
  • * 1960:' ''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.'' (, ''(Jeeves in the Offing) , chapter I)
  • Antonyms

    * unjuicy

    Derived terms

    * juiciness

    watery

    English

    Alternative forms

    * waterish (rare)

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Wet, soggy or soaked with water.
  • *
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-01
  • , author=Nancy Langston , title=The Fraught History of a Watery World , volume=101, issue=1, page=59 , magazine= citation , passage=European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.}}
  • Diluted or having too much water.
  • (of light) Thin and pale therefore suggestive of water.
  • Weak and insipid.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=August 21 , author=Jason Heller , title=The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review) , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=When the album succeeds, such as on the swaggering, Queen-esque “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us,” it does so on The Darkness’ own terms—that is, as a random ’80s-cliché generator. But with so many tired, lazy callbacks to its own threadbare catalog (including “Love Is Not The Answer,” a watery echo of the epic “I Believe In A Thing Called Love” from 2003’s Permission To Land''), ''Hot Cakes marks the point where The Darkness has stopped cannibalizing the golden age of stadium rock and simply started cannibalizing itself. And, despite Hawkins’ inveterate crotch-grabbing, there was never that much meat there to begin with. }}
  • Discharging water or similar substance as a result of disease etc.
  • Tearful.
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