oiled
/ˈɔɪld/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.10 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of oil
Example Sentences
- "an oiled machine"
- "a person's oiled body"
- "I got well oiled last night."
- "It appeared that, being in his own words still considerably "oiled" on his arrival, Bowles's parson had received him into his house with strong disfavour, and, what was worse, put him through a species of inquisition regarding the condition of his soul that had, to again quote Cripps, "nearly sent him mad.""
- ""Say, was he oiled when the accident happened?" "No, he was on the wagon again. …""
- "You could tell he wasn’t tired at all, though. He was pretty oiled up, for one thing."
Usage
Inflected Forms
more oiled (comparative)
most oiled (superlative)