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meatily

meatily adverb: in a meaty manner.

Adverb

meatily (comparative more meatily, superlative most meatily)

  1. In a meaty manner.
    • The tale is bookended by battles – faces meatily pummelled, bones crunchily broken and throats spurtingly sliced as offstage conflicts are placed centre-screen.2015 October 4, Mark Kermode, “Macbeth review – a spittle-flecked Shakespearean war film”, in The Observer

Forms of meatily

comparativemore meatily
superlativemost meatily

Origin of meatily

From meaty + -ly.

Questions about meatily

What does meatily mean?
Meatily means in a meaty manner.
What part of speech is meatily?
Meatily is an adverb.

Words near meatily in the dictionary

  1. Meatian
  2. meatic
  3. meatier
  4. meatiest
  5. meatilicious
  6. meatily
  7. meatiness
  8. meatish
  9. meatless
  10. meatless loaf
  11. meatless loaves

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