glutinous
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Etymology
Origin of glutinous
1375–1425; late Middle English; < Latin glūtinōsus gluey, sticky. See gluten, -ous
Explanation
When you step in a glutinous substance, some of it will stick to your shoe and stretch as you step up. Glutinous means glue-like, or thick and sticky. The Latin word for glue was gluten, which is now the name of a substance found in wheat. Gluten is what makes pizza or bread dough stretchy and gooey, or glutinous. If you're baking a cake, you shouldn't mix it too much or it could become glutinous, or tough. When someone is on a gluten-free diet, it means they cannot eat wheat or other grains that contain gluten.
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Example Sentences
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Glutinous pasta water serves a similar purpose to an egg white in a drink, as an emulsifier of ingredients and to soften a drink’s harder edges.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 5, 2023
Glutinous rice flour imparts butter mochi's signature chewy-bouncy "Q" texture, also found in boba, bibingka, daifuku, and rice cakes.
From Salon • Dec. 6, 2021
Glutinous, aka sweet, rice flour is made from cooking, pounding, and drying a glutinous variety of short-grain rice.
From Salon • Aug. 12, 2021
Afterwards the Lips must be kept closed with a Bandage, a Glutinous Plaister or a dry Stitch, provided the Wound be only superficial, hindring the Air from penetrating into it.
From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Le Clerc, Charles Gabriel
Glutinous rice in little layers with browned sugar between, minced pork dumplings, steamed biscuits.
From New Forces in Old China An Inevitable Awakening by Brown, Arthur Judson
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