juicy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒuːsi/
rhymes: -uːsi
Forms: form: juicier
form: juiciest
form: juicey
Etymology: From Middle English jousy, jowsy (“drunken”, literally “full of juice (liquor)”). By surface analysis, juic(e) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: a juicy peach
text: a juicy pot roast
antonyms: dry
unjuicy
;
dried#Adjective
dried out
dried up
coordinate_terms: watery
oily
glosses: Having lots of juice.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: saucy, spicy
text: I do not keep up with all the latest juicy rumors.
text: I like getting my teeth into a nice juicy problem.
text: If you’re looking for juicier confessions – that is, admissions of the kinds of sins unearthed on detective shows or reality TV – then you’ll want to look elsewhere. My sinning life is rather uneventful.
ref: 2014 November 12, James Martin, “Confessions of a Catholic priest”, in CNN:
text: Here are the five juiciest redactions from the Flynn sentencing document, with some context and a smidge of informed speculation about What It All Means.
ref: 2018 December 5, Chris Cillizza, “The 5 juiciest redactions in Michael Flynn’s sentencing document”, in CNN:
text: “Gossip” is about a lot more than just juicy tidbits and the columnists that peddle them, presenting a multifaceted look at gossip’s role in the newspaper/media ecosystem and at Rupert Murdoch’s enterprises in particular.
ref: 2021 August 20, Brian Lowry, “‘Gossip’ charts how tabloid tattlers ‘escaped from their cages’ and rippled through the media”, in CNN:
text: The former vice-president’s characterizations of peers such as Pete Buttigieg (talented but too gay for the America to accept as her running mate), and Josh Shapiro (an egoist) are not particularly juicy, but have already caused bad blood.
ref: 2025 September 22, Arwa Mahdawi, “107 Days by Kamala Harris review – no closure, no hope”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
antonyms: unjuicy
glosses: Exciting; titillating.
raw_tags: of a story
synonyms: word: luscious
word: alluring
word: arousing
word: attractive
word: bangable
word: beautiful
word: beddable
word: bedworthy
word: bonable
word: bonerific
word: buff
word: delicious
word: desirable
word: doable
word: dreamy
word: effable
word: fanciable
word: fappable
word: fapworthy
word: fine
word: fit
word: fuckable
word: gorgeous
word: hittable
word: horny
word: hot
word: humpable
word: peng
word: provocative
word: raunchy
word: rootable
word: salacious
word: screwable
word: seductive
word: sensual
word: sexable
word: sexalicious
word: sexy
word: shaggable
word: swoonsome
word: tasty
word: toothsome
antonyms: scrawny
unjuicy
glosses: Voluptuous, curvy, thick; sexy in those ways.
examples: text: “Your head feels funny, doesn't it?”
“It does rather,” I said, the bump I had given it had been a juicy one, and the temples were throbbing.
ref: 1960, (P. G. Wodehouse, “chapter V”, in Jeeves in the Offing:
text: Years ago, when striplings, he and I had done a stretch together at Malvern House, Bramley-on-Sea, the preparatory school conducted by that prince of stinkers, Aubrey Upjohn MA, and had frequently stood side by side in the Upjohn study awaiting the receipt of six of the juiciest from a cane of the type that biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder, as the fellow said.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, “chapter I”, in Jeeves in the Offing:
antonyms: light
coordinate_terms: glancing
qualifier: strike
glosses: Strong; thus, also painful.
raw_tags: of a blow
Derived terms: juicily
juiciness
juicy girl