gummy

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English

Pronunciation

enPR: gŭmʹi, IPA^(key): /ˈɡʌmi/
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Rhymes: -ʌmi

Etymology 1

gum (“flesh around teeth”) +‎ -y.

Adjective

gummy (comparative gummier, superlative gummiest)

Showing the gums.
a gummy grin

Derived terms

Noun

gummy (plural gummies)

(Australia) Clipping of gummy shark.
- 2000, Paul Worsteling, Fishing Western Port, page 12:
  Over there [the UK], gummies are called smooth hound and a six kilo fish would stop the nation.
- 2007, Bill Classon, Fishing Guide to Victoria′s Coastline, Australian Fishing Network, page 60,
  Western Port is a great location to find gummies. Gummy sharks are one of the favoured species in Western Port and for good reason: they put up a strong fight and feed of fresh flake is pretty hard to beat.
- 2008, Rex Hunt, Fishing Guide to Melbourne and Surrounds, page 44:
  This area of vast mudflats is right at the top of the port is home to some of the best gummy shark fishing around. […] As the water drops, the feeding gummies drop off the banks and wait in the channels for food.
(Australia, New Zealand) A sheep that is losing or has lost its teeth.

Etymology 2

gum (“(substance)”) +‎ -y. The noun was influenced by gummi (from German).

Adjective

gummy (comparative gummier, superlative gummiest)

Resembling gum (the substance).
Covered with gum or a substance resembling gum.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:
  the gummie bark of Firr or Pine
- 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “ The Third Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. , London: Printed for Jacob Tonson , →OCLC:
  Then rubs his gummy eyes.
(archaic, slang) Thick; fat.
- 1857, Charles Waterton, Essays on Natural History: 3d Series, page 202:
  Probably, in times gone by, when flowing gowns were seldom worn in England, some fashionable dame of high degree, having splay feet, or gummy ankles, might have put them under cover.

Synonyms

(resembling gum, the substance): gluey, gooey, sticky, tacky

Derived terms

Related terms

chewing-gummy

References

(thick, fat): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Noun

gummy (plural gummies)

(usually in the plural) A gummi candy.
- c 2011, Gabrielle Tan, Different Colour Can Mix True or False?:
  I opened the fridge to take out my lunch and gave her a gummy. She licked my hand gratefully as I placed the food into the microwave and when it was heated up, she watched me eat and when I was done, she licked my plate happily.
- 2010, Linda A. Dixon, Cupcakes for Cristina!:
  Cristina hands him a gummy but holds tight to her cupcake, for she's still working on it, and doesn't want to set it free yet.

Derived terms

Translations

gelatinous candy — see gummi

See also

by gummy

Czech

Pronunciation

IPA^(key):
Rhymes: -umɪ
Hyphenation: gum‧my

Noun

gummy

genitive singular of gumma (gum, rubber)

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