English

Alternative forms

• sizey

Adjective

sizy ‎(comparative more sizy, superlative most sizy)

1. Like size (weak glue or paste).
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book VII, chapter xiii

     […] which I expected to have found extremely sizy and glutinous, or indeed coagulated, as it is in pleuretic complaints;

   • 1861, Harold Havelock Kynett, Samuel Worcester Butler, D G Brinton, The Medical and surgical reporter: Volume 5 (page 282)

     The cellular tissue of the front part of the neck and chest was infiltrated with a sizy, transparent liquid.

2. Exhibiting size (the thickened crust on coagulated blood).

Derived terms

• siziness