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Covered with or containing oil.
- oily machinery; oily rags; oily fish; oily cooking
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Resembling oil.
- oily swells; oily seas
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Excessively friendly or polite but insincere.figuratively
- Near-synonyms: slick, buttery, oleaginous, unctuous; smarmy
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A marble with an oily lustre.
- Lustered (also called lusters, rainbows, oilies, and pearls).
- But marbles are not only used to play games: they are also traded. In this market, the value of the different kinds of marbles (oilies, emperors, etc.) is determined by local supply and demand and not by the price of the marbles […]
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Oilskins. (waterproof garment)in-pluralinformal