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glutinous

[gloot-n-uhs] / ˈglut n əs /


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I started making pancakes with thinner and thinner batter, and replaced all-purpose flour with glutinous rice flour.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

So Barba and Lerew stepped to the vat and uncovered it, revealing a glutinous stew of rags and vaseline, once integral to the tattoo process; the stew’s age and precise contents are uncertain.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2024

When he invited her to eat tangyuan - or glutinous rice balls - at his home with him and his flatmate, she agreed.

From BBC • Jul. 20, 2023

The three types were glutinous rice, medium grain rice and jasmine rice.

From Salon • Jun. 13, 2023

But he whooped also, croaking hoarsely, glutinous, joyful sounds, riding that bright yellow Ladd Devine backhoe westward, ever westward— Toward the gorge.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols