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Definition of Gummy
1. Adjective. Having the sticky properties of an adhesive.
Similar to: Adhesive
Derivative terms: Glue, Glueyness, Gluiness, Gluten, Glutinosity, Glutinousness, Gum, Gumminess, Mucilage, Mucilage, Paste, Stickiness, Viscidity, Viscidness
2. Adjective. Covered with adhesive gum.
Definition of Gummy
1. a. Consisting of gum; viscous; adhesive; producing or containing gum; covered with gum or a substance resembling gum.
Definition of Gummy
1. Adjective. Showing the gums. ¹
2. Noun. (Australia) (short for gummy shark) ¹
3. Noun. (Australia New Zealand) A sheep that is losing or has lost its teeth. ¹
4. Adjective. Resembling gum (''the substance''). ¹
5. Noun. (usually in the plural) A gummy candy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gummy
1. resembling gum [adj -MIER, -MIEST]
Medical Definition of Gummy
1.
Consisting of gum; viscous; adhesive; producing or containing gum; covered with gum or a substance resembling gum. "Kindles the gummy bark of fir or pine." (Milton) "Then rubs his gummy eyes.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gummy
Literary usage of Gummy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Pathology and treatment of venereal diseases: Including the Results of by Freeman Josiah Bumstead (1870)
"AFFECTIONS OF THE SUBCUTANEOUS CELLULAR TISSUE. gummy ... gummy tumors of the
cellular tissue commence as hard lumps, freely movable upon the subjacent ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1868)
"Nor do they belong exclusively to any given period of the disease ; the original
indurated chancre is in itself a gummy ulcer and not unfrequently proceeds ..."
3. The Chemical Works of Caspar Neumann .. by Caspar Neumann, William Lewis (1773)
"... and a half of refi- extract, and afterwards with Water an ounce of gummy ...
of an ounce of gummy extract, we obtain but half an ounce and three grains, ..."
4. A Text-book of Diseases of the Nose and Throat by Francke Huntington Bosworth (1896)
"THE gummy TUMOR. While the larynx may be invaded by any form of syphilis, ...
gummy Tumor of Left Occasionally, however, from some obscure reason, ..."
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