juicy

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Containing a lot of juice; pleasantly wet to eat.

   She bit into a ripe, juicy peach.

2. 2
   adj

   Exciting and interesting, especially because it involves gossip or scandal.

   She couldn't wait to share the juicy details of the breakup.

3. 3
   adj

   Offering a lot of money or benefit (informal).

   The musician signed a juicy contract with the record company.

From Middle English jousy, jowsy (“drunken”, literally “full of juice (liquor)”). By surface analysis, juic(e) + -y.

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