olive-oily
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.28 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
With olive oil.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of olive oil.
Example Sentences
- "Heap onto hot olive-oily pasta."
- "Rounds of olive-oily focaccia are scattered with coarse salt and rosemary, scallions, or tomato sauce."
- "THE HEALTHIEST DIET AFTER A HEART ATTACK / Is it the low-fat, low-cholesterol diet touted by the American Heart Association? Is it the olive-oily Mediterranean diet, which studies show protects entire populations from heart disease? It’s both."
- "From her mother Mary Rose inherited, along with “the pipes,” youthful skin, thanks to a Mediterranean heritage and an olive-oily diet."
- "You’ll pass a traditional panificio (bakery; there’s another at Via Palestro #34) where you can say, “Vorrei un etto di focaccia” to treat yourself to about a quarter-pound of the region’s famed, olive-oily bread (€1, plenty for two)."
- "Butter makes food delicious and, if a dish isn’t based in the olive-oily Mediterranean region, I often fry in a combination of half butter and half olive oil, so you get flavour and a higher burning point."
Etymology
From olive oil + -y.