roily

[Michael Trittipo]

Your comment just sent me running to my Czech dictionaries, Paul.  There, I
do find "runny," in two senses: the texture of something like a runny cake
mix (basically "thin" or "flowing/liquid"), and the runny nose sense.


On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 4:58 AM, Paul B. Gallagher <
paulbg at pbg-translations.com> wrote:

> Josef Malkin wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>>
>> Can anyone help me to find out what's wrong with the word "roily"?
>> It exists in some dictionaries, yet for some reason's missing in the
>> others.
>>
>
> There's nothing "wrong" with it, in principle, it's just a very rare word
> that very few of your readers will recognize and understand.
>
> If I had to be picky, I'd point out that we usually form this class of
> adjectives (in -y) from nouns, but "roil" is a verb. But there are plenty
> of exceptions: a "runny nose" ought to be "running," but it isn't. And
> believe it or not, I just checked three fat English-Russian dictionaries,
> and none of their authors saw fit to include "runny."
>
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