Definitions
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- adjective Full of germs.
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- adjective informal That carries
germs .
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- adjective full of germs or pathological microorganisms
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Examples
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I told you my remedy for all things germy is Drambuie, right?
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That someone who has works as a computer professional would do so, and even suggest that the real risk is from handling "germy" cash, is alarming.
The Athens NEWS :: Athens, Ohio's only locally-owned newspaper :: Home Dennis Powell 2009
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Most likely she just got "germy" (as he put it) from the lake and pool she had swam in, and she will most likely not have another one.
A Family Story 2008
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Hands which the sprogs would call "germy" but which people at the time would not, since no one knew that germs caused disease.
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If I'm contagious, I cannot risk exposing my germy self to medically-fragile S00j and Kyth.
Odin's Day chebutykin 2009
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Teachers tell us kids are germy and hence the absences.
Carolyn Bucior: The Profiler: He IDs the Most-Absent Teachers Carolyn Bucior 2011
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Even at this low consumption rate, roughly 40 million hours annually are wasted as African women and girls become water carts, tramping four miles on average, lugging heavy jugs filled from filthy, germy water sources.
Jonathan Lewis: I Am a Water Billionaire Jonathan Lewis 2011
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Teachers tell us kids are germy and hence the absences.
Carolyn Bucior: The Profiler: He IDs the Most-Absent Teachers Carolyn Bucior 2011
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Even at this low consumption rate, roughly 40 million hours annually are wasted as African women and girls become water carts, tramping four miles on average, lugging heavy jugs filled from filthy, germy water sources.
Jonathan Lewis: I Am a Water Billionaire Jonathan Lewis 2011
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But then the health-blogging, more rational, less superstitious me woke up and remembered that of course colds are caused by cold viruses -- of which hundreds are known to exist -- transmitted via your germy hands to your eyes, nose or mouth.
Will Ice Cream Guy catch a cold? Jennifer LaRue Huget 2011
bilby commented on the word germy
Like the buttons on a vendingmachine.
January 30, 2024