What's the difference between fluey and gluey?

Fluey


Definition:

  • (a.) Downy; fluffy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He said: “The day after I had the vaccine I felt a bit fluey and had a sore arm but by the evening I was absolutely fine.
  • (2) My arms and legs just felt very heavy, it could make you feel quite fluey.” After the aches failed to disappear, Rumble, a fundraiser for Hafan Dda NHS trust and supporter of the British Heart Foundation, went back to the doctor, who put her on a different statin, Rosuvastatin.

Gluey


Definition:

  • (a.) Viscous; glutinous; of the nature of, or like, glue.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The formation of aldolization products or polymers and of gluey flavour compounds modified the character of flavour and confused less experienced judges.
  • (2) It has a metallic, pungently sweaty kick to it, as if someone has absorbed the fluids of a gym changing-room floor into a lump of gluey cheese-like matter.
  • (3) It does the same to most of the gluey, plastic, molten-cheese-smeared, iceberg-lettuce-bedded monstrosities that pass for Tex Mex in the US as well.
  • (4) And indeed, Pavid and I were still pretty close friends – we sat next to each other in class, and he would show me his gluey hands, and I would repeat jokes from 'Allo 'Allo, pretending that I'd made them up myself.
  • (5) Singing it can sometimes feel like wallowing in a world of gluey nostalgia.
  • (6) It only softens up again with prolonged cooking at low temperatures, which breaks down the collagen and gives the succulent, almost gluey, soft texture common to stews and braised dishes.
  • (7) Deeply tanned and well-seasoned, it has a lovely savoury edge to it but it is a shade too thick and, consequently, a bit undercooked and gluey directly beneath that crisp outer shell.
  • (8) In an area larger than a football pitch, 40,000 cubic metres of gluey, hard-packed clay has had to be removed with diggers in order to access the bodies.

Words possibly related to "fluey"

Words possibly related to "gluey"