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If something is gloppy, it is like : thick, wet, and a bit messy. Gloppy sauce sits in a lump. Gloppy mud grabs your shoes. Gloppy cheese pulls in strings. Informal, same slightly rude tone as — you are usually not praising the food or the floor. You would not write it in a science report; you would say it in the kitchen. The opposite feeling is smooth, or dry, or thick.
黏糊糊的
組成glop + -y (the ending that turns a noun into ‘full of that / like that’).
同家族的字
- glopthe thick wet mass this adjective is built from
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
gloppyadj/ˈɡlɒpi/
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informalgooey and viscous.
- In 2012 biophysicist Michael Rosen of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and his coworkers showed that various proteins and RNA molecules could phase-separate from a solution into dense liquid droplets, which then congealed into viscoelastic substances. They seem to span the range from gloppy liquids such as mucus to almost solidlike gels such as Jell-O. […] One common stressor is heat, which can cause folded proteins to “denature,” or unravel. Many cells make heat-shock proteins when they get uncomfortably warm, which can act as molecular chaperones that guide denatured proteins back to their folded state. That’s important not just so the proteins work properly but so unfolded proteins do not stick together in a gloppy mess.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。