Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an oily manner; as oil; in the manner or presenting the appearance of oil; smoothly.
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- adverb In an
oily way.
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Examples
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I love the gathered trim with the oilily fabrics - gorgeous!
Sunday Stash and Happy Mail Katy 2009
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Fabric from the room seven and oilily outlet shop I dream of visiting that place!
Archive 2009-02-01 Katy 2009
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Fabric from the room seven and oilily outlet shop I dream of visiting that place!
Sunday Stash and Happy Mail Katy 2009
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Then I bought myself sssh, don't tell husband some very oilily type fabric from here .
Drum Roll, Please........ Katy 2008
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Then I bought myself sssh, don't tell husband some very oilily type fabric from here .
Archive 2008-04-01 Katy 2008
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And then I made a cat from black needlecord and oilily needlecord so I could practise on my sewing machine.....
Wet Weekends = Busy Monkey Katy 2007
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And then I made a cat from black needlecord and oilily needlecord so I could practise on my sewing machine.....
Archive 2007-11-01 Katy 2007
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I beckoned to him and he waddled forward, smiling oilily.
Greenmantle 2005
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The unemployed men who frequent them are mostly of the cap-touching type — the type who tells you oilily that he is ‘Temperance’ and votes Conservative.
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The steerage promenade-deck, iron-sided, black-floored, ending in the iron approaches to the galley at one end and the iron superstructures about a hatch at the other, was like a grim swart oilily clean machine-shop aisle, so inclosed, so over-roofed, that the side toward the sea seemed merely a long factory window.
Our Mr. Wrenn 2004
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