# gummy
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: gŭmʹi, IPA: /ˈɡʌmi/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌmi

### Etymology 1

From gum (“flesh around teeth”) +‎ -y.

#### Adjective

gummy (comparative gummier, superlative gummiest)
* Showing the gums.
    a gummy grin

##### Derived terms

* gummily
* gumminess
* gummy weed

#### 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

From 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], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →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 Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Third Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] 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

* gumminess
* gummy bear
* gummy up
* gummy tumor
* gummy tumour

##### 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

* garden gummy
* gummy bear
* gummy worm

##### Translations
### See also

* by gummy

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɡumɪ]
* Rhymes: -umɪ
* Hyphenation: gum‧my

### Noun

gummy
* genitive singular of gumma (gum, rubber)