2 June 2015

viscous

[vis-kuh s]

adjective
1. of a glutinous nature or consistency; sticky; thick; adhesive.
2. having the property of viscosity.

Also, viscose.
Origin of viscous
Middle English, Late Latin
1350-1400; Middle English < Late Latin viscōsus, equivalent to Latin visc (um) mistletoe, birdlime (made with mistletoe berries) + -ōsus -ous

Related forms
viscously, adverb
viscousness, noun
hyperviscous, adjective
pseudoviscous, adjective

Can be confused
vicious, viscose, viscous.

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Examples from the web for viscous
– Black gays, in turn, are accusing their white gay peers of viscous racism.
(Gays and Blacks (and Gay Blacks) Go to War The Daily Beast November 5, 2008)

– What The Great Beauty and Fellini share is the Roman light—3,000 years of viscous sun.
(The New Fellini: Paolo Sorrentino’s ‘The Great Beauty’ Jimmy So November 17, 2013)

Today’s quote

I’ve only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

– Sid Vicious

On this day

2 June 1953 – Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey, England.

2 June 1965 – the first contingent of Australian combat troops arrives in Saigon to assist the American military in the Vietnam War.

2 June 1966 – The ‘Surveyor 1′ space probe lands on the moon. It is the first US space probe to do so. The Soviet Union had successfully landed a space probe, the Lunix 9, on the moon 5 months earlier, on 3 February 1966.