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olive-oily

olive-oily adjective: with olive oil.

Adjective

olive-oily (comparative more olive-oily, superlative most olive-oily)

  1. With olive oil.
    • Heap onto hot olive-oily pasta.2003, Miranda Innes, Getting to Mañana, London: Bantam Press, →ISBN, page 290
    • Rounds of olive-oily focaccia are scattered with coarse salt and rosemary, scallions, or tomato sauce.2007, Patricia Unterman, Patricia Unterman’s San Francisco Food Lover’s Pocket Guide, Berkeley, Calif.: Ten Speed Press, →ISBN, page 101
  2. Resembling or characteristic of olive oil.
    • A motherly woman lived there with her son, Luigi, a gay young man with an olive-oily skin, glistening teeth and a rubbery smile.1952, Paul Brickhill, “The Man who Would Not Die”, in Escape—or Die: Authentic Stories of the R.A.F. Escaping Society, London: Pan Books Ltd., published 1956, page 106
    • Unlike Bunnahabhainn, it is not that easy to drink, either, having such a bland, rather olive-oily taste that you end up geting^([sic]) fed up with very quickly.1992, Tom Morton, “Islay”, in Spirit of Adventure: A Journey Beyond the Whisky Trails, Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, →ISBN, page 149

Examples of olive-oily in a sentence

  • Is it the olive-oily Mediterranean diet, which studies show protects entire populations from heart disease?2008, Bill Gottlieb, “Heart Disease & Stroke: Easy Ways to Clean Your Arteries”, in Bottom Line’s Breakthroughs in Drug-Free Healing...
  • From her mother Mary Rose inherited, along with “the pipes,” youthful skin, thanks to a Mediterranean heritage and an olive-oily diet.2015, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Adult Onset, Portland, Ore.; Brooklyn, N.Y.: Tin House Books, →ISBN, page 43:
  • One of the strangest but most delicious lunches I have had in a while – warm rice tossed with a splodge of mayo, flaked olive-oily tuna and finely shredded lettuce.2016, Lizzie Kamenetzky, “Introduction”, in The Bountiful Kitchen: Delicious Ideas to Turn One Dish into Two, London: Kyle Books, →ISBN...
  • You eat the whole artichoke and soak up the olive-oily gravy with your chunks of bread.2016, Patsy Garlan, The Thing Is, San Rafael, Calif.: Summerland Publishing, →ISBN, page 302:

Forms of olive-oily

comparativemore olive-oily
superlativemost olive-oily
alternative formolive oily

Origin of olive-oily

From olive oil + -y.

Words formed from olive-oily

Questions about olive-oily

What does olive-oily mean?
Olive-oily means with olive oil.
How do you use olive-oily in a sentence?
Is it the olive-oily Mediterranean diet, which studies show protects entire populations from heart disease?
What part of speech is olive-oily?
Olive-oily is an adjective.

Words near olive-oily in the dictionary

  1. olive-backed thrush
  2. olive-branch
  3. olive-branched
  4. olive-branches
  5. olive-branching
  6. olive-oily
  7. olive-pomace oil
  8. olive-sided flycatcher
  9. olive-sided flycatchers
  10. oliveback
  11. olivebacks

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