Dictionary

sizy en · ADJ

Etymology

From size + -y.

Meanings

1. Like size (weak glue or paste).
   • […] which I expected to have found extremely sizy and glutinous, or indeed coagulated, as it is in pleuretic complaints; 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter XIII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VII:
   • The cellular tissue of the front part of the neck and chest was infiltrated with a sizy, transparent liquid. 1861, Harold Havelock Kynett, Samuel Worcester Butler, D G Brinton, The Medical and surgical reporter: Volume 5, page 282:
2. Exhibiting size (the thickened crust on coagulated blood).

Forms

Deriveds

siziness