meaty
/ˈmiːti/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.01 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, relating to, or containing meat.
adj
Resembling meat in flavour, smell, etc.
adj
Example Sentences
- "In the early years of this century most Americans did not question the meaty, starchy, saladless national diet."
- "This tastes rather meaty. Are you sure it's vegetarian?"
- ""He's a foreign-looking guy with thinnish black hair and a meaty sort of pan.""
- "The warm, comforting, meaty smell of khorovadz drifted into the café from a stall on the pavement; the quiet mutters that had till then passed for conversation in the café began to buzz with passion and interest."
- "The slightly sulfurous, meaty odor of morels attracts flies, which lay eggs in the safety of the mushroom's hollow stalk."
- "The whole, long, thick, meaty shaft of it quivered as if eager to dispel my mouth. Odor assailed me, too – my brother, like so many soldiers, not being overly fastidious in matters of personal hygiene. "All right, my little whoreling," he commanded, [...]"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d-der. Proto-Germanic *matiz Proto-West Germanic *mati Old English mete Middle English mete English meat Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English meaty From meat + -y.