oiled

[oild]

adjective

1. lubricated or smeared with or as if with oil.

2. Slang.,  drunk; intoxicated.

Other Word Forms

• unoiled adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of oiled¹

First recorded in 1525–35; oil + -ed ², -ed ³

Example Sentences

Over the following months the wood is cut, settled, rounded, spliced, planed, fitted with a brass tip and leather pad, sanded in nine different ways, oiled, and finally waxed, before being complete.

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Even though you may wet it during some part of the precooking process — like dipping it in egg before dredging it in flour — it should be dry or only lightly oiled before cooking.

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Exterior walls, built from Douglas fir, were freshly oiled and flammable.

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If using a ready made crust with two in a pack, roll out the second one, use a cookie cutter to make rounds to place in an oiled muffin pan for mini pies.

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Agencies recovered four oiled birds alive in Oregon, the Coast Guard said in a news release Wednesday.

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Related Words

• buttery 
• creamy 
• slippery 
• waxy