Juicy means so full of juice that it runs when you bite. A ripe peach eaten over the sink, a burger that drips down your wrist, tomatoes in August that actually taste of something.
Meat is the great test, where juicy is the highest praise for a steak and the exact opposite of dry. The second life of the word is gossip: a juicy detail, a juicy scandal, the juicy bit of the story, meaning anything rich enough to enjoy passing on. From there it stretches to a juicy part for an actor and a juicy contract, both meaning big and worth having. It grows the ordinary way, juicier and juiciest, and the noun behind it is juice. Aimed at a person's body, juicy stops being a compliment, so leave it on the fruit.
1adjectivejuicyFull of juice; wet and soft to bite into.
“The pears were so juicy she had to eat them over the sink.”
Patternjuicy + noun (fruit, steak, burger) · juicy and sweet · nice and juicy · juiciness
synonyms: succulent
2adjectiveinterestingInteresting because it is scandalous or private.
“He saved the juiciest part of the story for last.”
3adjectivelargeLarge and very desirable.
“She landed a juicy contract with a French publisher.”
JUICy → full of JUICE
It is juice + y: bite into a soft orange and the juice runs down your chin.
hooks ontojuice
From Middle English jousy or jowsy, which meant drunken, and meant it literally: full of juice, where juice was liquor. The word sat at the bottom of a cup for a long time before it ever described a peach.
Middle English
jousy
English, today
juicy
Built from
From Middle English jousy, jowsy (“drunken”) literally “full of juice (liquor)”. by surface analysis, juic(e) + juice + y.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in In the Kitchen, Everyday Adjectives