• enPR: gŭmʹi, IPA: /ˈɡʌmi/

From gum + -y.

gummy (comparative gummier, superlative gummiest)

1. Showing the gums.

   a gummy grin

gummy (plural gummies)

1. (Australia) Clipping of gummy shark
   • 2007, Bill Classon, Fishing Guide to Victoria′s Coastline, Australian Fishing Network, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=cDUmJYLT7SgC&pg=PA60&dq=%22gummy%22|%22gummies%22+shark+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6mJwT5emO4PcmAWlpImSBg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22gummy%22|%22gummies%22%20shark%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 60],

     Western Port is a great location to find gummies. […] Gummy sharks are one of the favoured species in Western Port and for good reason: they put up a strong fight and feed of fresh flake is pretty hard to beat.

2. (Australia, New Zealand) A sheep that is losing or has lost its teeth.

From gum + -y.

gummy (comparative gummier, superlative gummiest)

1. Resembling gum the substance.
2. Covered with gum or a substance resembling gum.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC ↗:

     the gummie bark of Firr or Pine

   • 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Third Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC ↗:

     Then rubs his gummy eyes.

3. (archaic, slang) Thick; fat.
   • 1857, Charles Waterton, Essays on Natural History: 3d Series, page 202:

     Probably, in times gone by, when flowing gowns were seldom worn in England, some fashionable dame of high degree, having splay feet, or gummy ankles, might have put them under cover.

• (resembling gum, the substance) gluey, gooey, sticky, tacky

gummy (plural gummies)

1. (usually, in the plural) A gummi candy.