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Meaty   /mˈiti/   Listen
Meaty

adjective
1.
Like or containing meat.
2.
Being on topic and prompting thought.  Synonym: substantive.






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"Meaty" Quotes from Famous Books



... cover the field of general farming, stock-raising, dairying, poultry-rearing, horticulture, gardening, forestry, and the like. It is essentially a small cyclopedia Of ready rules and references packed full from coyer to cover of condensed, meaty information and precepts on almost every leading subject connected with ...
— Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement • Alva Agee

... cooked crabs and then cut a thin slice from the shell that contains the meat. Dip the meaty part in a salad oil and fry until ...
— Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book - Numerous New Recipes Based on Present Economic Conditions • Mary A. Wilson

... I think I will, at your invitation. I wouldn't at any other party's, at the present juncture; but at yours, sir!—And meaty jelly too, especially when a little salt, which is the case where there's ham, is mellering to the organ, is very mellering to the organ.' Mr Wegg did not say what organ, but spoke with ...
— Our Mutual Friend • Charles Dickens

... some pink fluid with a greenish fluorescence and a meaty taste, and the assurance of returning ...
— The Sleeper Awakes - A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes • H.G. Wells

... course, and a collector of pictures—presumably a dramatically fair and realistic drawing of a wealthy, successful, art-loving American. I have forgotten now whether he was supposed to be one of our meaty Chicago millionaires, or one of our oily Cleveland millionaires, or one of our steely Pittsburgh millionaires, or just a plain millionaire from the country at large; and I doubt whether the man ...
— Europe Revised • Irvin S. Cobb

... were thin; and the legs, lean and hairy, were crooked and stringy-muscled. In fact, my father's legs were more like arms. They were twisted and gnarly, and with scarcely the semblance of the full meaty calf such as graces your leg and mine. I remember he could not walk on the flat of his foot. This was because it was a prehensile foot, more like a hand than a foot. The great toe, instead of being in line with the other toes, opposed them, like a thumb, and its opposition to the other ...
— Before Adam • Jack London

... you'll understand my faith in my own two hands and what they feel," snarled Ives. He stepped to the bulkhead and brought his meaty hand hard ...
— Breaking Point • James E. Gunn



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