Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryHaving lots of juice. · Exciting; titillating. · Voluptuous, curvy, thick; sexy in those ways. · Strong; thus, also painful.
From Middle English jousy, jowsy (“drunken”, literally “full of juice (liquor)”). By surface analysis, juic(e) + -y.
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- Inherited-form mentionjousyenm
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