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- adjective Adjective form of
glug . Used to describe a substance (normally liquid, specifically viscous) which moves slowly or with some resistance. Can also be used to describe someone who is lazy or sluggish (displaying the same characteristics.)
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Examples
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Sinuses are pretty tight and, worse, my earsleft one inparticular are pretty gluggy.
Archive 2008-06-01 Zillabob 2008
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Sinuses are pretty tight and, worse, my earsleft one inparticular are pretty gluggy.
It's Allergy Time! Zillabob 2008
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The perfect cupcake should: a. be light and fluffy; b. have small bubbles; c. not go gluggy.
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I would love to get some as I'm so sick of the gluggy stuff the supermarket oats produce.
por·ridge 2007
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This is not dissimilar to the trypsin/prophenyloxidase system, in amphioxus, where a trypsin activates an enzyme prophenyloxidase to make gluggy melanin at wound sites 17.
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Hmmm, a trypsin-like molecule, activated by high calcium on tissue injury, that makes gluggy stuff.
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It is highly plausible that a proto-thrombin was released during tissue damage and initially initiated wound repair, then started making gluggy stuff that limited bacterial invasion, and then was modified to make gluggy stuff that sealed blood vessels.
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The other two bobbed on the gluggy surface for a few seconds before they too were sucked under by the hungry liquid floor.
Seven Deadly Wonders Matthew Reilly 2006
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Same concept except after removal of bones and meat, I added too much rice and let it simmer and simmer until it became so gluggy it could hold together the walls of china.
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The other two bobbed on the gluggy surface for a few seconds before they too were sucked under by the hungry liquid floor.
Seven Deadly Wonders Matthew Reilly 2006
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