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wastey

wastey adjective: too fat, as opposed to meaty.

Adjective

wastey (comparative more wastey, superlative most wastey)

  1. (or a meat) too fat, as opposed to meaty
    • Protein brought out more of the muscling and red meat before the cattle got too wastey with too much fat.
    • "As a result, much of the beef that was consumed in the past was "wastey," requiring extensive trimming of the fat in order to provide suitable cuts for the retail and restaurant trade."2012, Gerald Reed, Enzymes in Food Processing
    Synonyms:
    overfinished, wasty
  2. soft as a result of getting overripe
    • Frosted or wastey fruit will be unsalable.
    Synonyms:
    swash, swashy
  3. (slang) getting drunk close to being wasted
    Synonyms:
    inebriated

Synonyms of wastey

Forms of wastey

comparativemore wastey
superlativemost wastey

Origin of wastey

From waste + -y.

Questions about wastey

What does wastey mean?
Wastey means too fat, as opposed to meaty.
What part of speech is wastey?
Wastey is an adjective.

Words near wastey in the dictionary

  1. wastewaters
  2. wasteway
  3. wasteways
  4. wasteweir
  5. wasteweirs
  6. wastey
  7. wasteyard
  8. wasteyards
  9. wasteyute
  10. wasteyutes
  11. wastfull

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