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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.
    • Enough oil to lightly coat everything…err on the side of more, it’s a south of France dish, it’s supposed to be olive oily.2013, Darlene Barnes, Hungry: What Eighty Ravenous Guys Taught Me About Life, Love, and the Power of Good Food, New York, N.Y.: Hyperion, →ISBN, page 242
    • From her mother Mary Rose inherited, along with “the pipes,” youthful skin, thanks to a Mediterranean heritage and an olive oily diet.2014, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Adult Onset, [Toronto, Ont.]: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 34
  2. Resembling or characteristic of olive oil.
    • ‘The countryside is dotted with people up olive trees, people carrying sacks of olives, tractors pulling loads of olives. The lovely warm olive oily smell in the presses is unforgettable,’ says Mrs Zyw, one of Tuscany’s liveliest oil producers.1983, Jane Grigson, “Italy”, in Jane Grigson’s Book of European Cookery, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum, →ISBN, page 55, column 1
    • A Midwest writer, for one, explains that she loves olive oil. “However, olive oil only goes so far. For my birthday, my husband made me a dark chocolate cake and, not being a baker, he didn’t even notice the difference between the two oils (canola and olive) and the cake was unbearable; although it...2008, Cal Orey, “Olive Oil Is Not for Everyone: Some Bitter Views”, in The Healing Powers of Olive Oil: A Complete Guide to Nature’s Liquid Gold, New York, N.Y.: Kensington Books, →ISBN, part 6...

Examples of olive oily in a sentence

  • Another seafood restaurant facing the harbour, ‘Phosphorescence’ lights the way with its massive meze trays groaning under the weight of things fishy, olive oily and yoghurty.2015, James Bainbridge, Brett Atkinson, Stuart Butler, Steve Fallon, Will Gourlay, Jessica Lee, Virginia Maxwell, Turkey, 14th edition...
  • It should be sweet, vinegary, olive oily and piquant.2015, Sally Clarke, 30 Ingredients, London: Frances Lincoln, published 2016, →ISBN, page 183:
  • Allow to sit for around 15 minutes, so that all the olive oily goodness soaks into the bread.2015, Sally Butcher, “[Cheese] Horiatiki: A Classic Greek”, in Salmagundi: A Celebration of Salads from around the World, Northampton...
  • Try to use regular olive oil here rather than extra-virgin, unless you don’t mind it smelling quite olive oily.2017, Lola Berry, Beauty Food, Sydney, N.S.W.: Plum, Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Limited, →ISBN, page 138:

Forms of olive oily

comparativemore olive oily
superlativemost olive oily

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?
Another seafood restaurant facing the harbour, ‘Phosphorescence’ lights the way with its massive meze trays groaning under the weight of things fishy, olive oily and yoghurty.
What part of speech is olive oily?
Olive oily is an adjective.

Words near olive oily in the dictionary

  1. olive moth
  2. olive moths
  3. olive oil
  4. olive oiliness
  5. olive oils
  6. olive oily
  7. olive ore
  8. olive plum
  9. olive plums
  10. olive pomace oil
  11. olive pomace oils

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