JUICY (juicier, juiciest)

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Irregular inflected forms: juicier    , juiciest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does juicy mean? 

• JUICY (adjective)
  The adjective JUICY has 4 senses:

1. full of juice

2. having strong sexual appeal

3. lucrative

4. suggestive of sexual impropriety

  Familiarity information: JUICY used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JUICY (adjective)

Comparative: juicier   
Superlative: juiciest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Full of juice

Similar:

au jus (served in its natural juices or gravy)

lush; succulent (tender and full of juice)

sappy (abounding in sap)

Antonym:

juiceless (lacking juice)

Derivation:

juice (the liquid part that can be extracted from plant or animal tissue by squeezing or cooking)

juiciness (a juicy appetizingness)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having strong sexual appeal

Synonyms:

juicy; luscious; lush; red-hot; toothsome; voluptuous

Context example:

a toothsome blonde in a tight dress

Similar:

sexy (marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Lucrative

Synonyms:

fat; juicy

Context example:

a nice fat job

Similar:

profitable (yielding material gain or profit)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Suggestive of sexual impropriety

Synonyms:

blue; gamey; gamy; juicy; naughty; racy; risque; spicy

Context example:

spicy gossip

Similar:

sexy (marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest)

 Context examples 

When many people think of watermelons, they think of cultivated watermelons with the sweet, juicy red fruit enjoyed around the world — Citrullus lanatus.

(Harvesting genes to improve watermelons, National Science Foundation)

But if you open up the fruit, each seed is covered by this juicy, soft pulp, and it's that that the monkeys and gibbons like.

(Thai Elephants Help Spread Jungle Fruit's Seeds, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)

Then Gretel called out to her master: If the guest does not come, I must take the fowls away from the fire, but it will be a sin and a shame if they are not eaten the moment they are at their juiciest.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Scarlet with shame and anger, Amy went to and fro six dreadful times, and as each doomed couple, looking oh, so plump and juicy, fell from her reluctant hands, a shout from the street completed the anguish of the girls, for it told them that their feast was being exulted over by the little Irish children, who were their sworn foes.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

There was also another kind of root, very juicy, but somewhat rare and difficult to be found, which the Yahoos sought for with much eagerness, and would suck it with great delight; it produced in them the same effects that wine has upon us.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The sun was lying low in the west and shooting its level rays across the long sweep of rich green country, glinting on the white-fleeced sheep and throwing long shadows from the red kine who waded knee-deep in the juicy clover.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)