Usually means: Covered or saturated with oil.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word oily:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. oily: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. oily: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. oily: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. oily: Collins English Dictionary
  5. oily: Vocabulary.com
  6. Oily, oily: Wordnik
  7. oily: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. oily: Wiktionary
  9. oily: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. oily: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. oily: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. oily: Dictionary.com
  13. oily: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Oily: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. oily: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. oily: Rhymezone
  17. oily: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. oily: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. oily: Free Dictionary
  20. oily: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. oily: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Cheese Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Coffee Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. oily: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. oily: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. oily: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  2. oily: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Oily: Glossary of Cheese Terms
  2. Glossary of Coffee Terminology (No longer online)

(Note: See oilier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Covered with or containing oil.
adjective:  Resembling oil.
adjective:  (figuratively) Excessively friendly or polite but insincere.
noun:  A marble with an oily lustre.
noun:  (in the plural, informal) Oilskins. (waterproof garment)

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