MEATY
What does "MEATY" mean?
Resembling or full of meat; substantial in flavor, texture, or content.
Meanings
- Containing a lot of meat, or tasting and feeling like meat. The stew was thick and meaty.
- Substantial, full of important or interesting content. It was a meaty report that took a week to digest. figurative
- Solid and fleshy in build or feel. He gave the door a meaty shove.
Word origin
From 'meat', from Old English 'mete' (food in general, later flesh), plus the suffix '-y'.
Remember it
MEATY = MEAT + Y: full of meat, or full of substance you can really chew on.
A little poem
Fork stands in the bowl-
the broth has grown a body,
winter, made edible.
haiku
Wordplay
- My professor promised a meaty lecture. He delivered: ninety minutes, no real substance, and I left starving.
What it teaches
Call a thing meaty and you promise substance; a dish or an argument is judged by what's left after the chewing.
Quick facts
What does MEATY mean?
Resembling or full of meat; substantial in flavor, texture, or content.
Is MEATY a valid word?
Yes — MEATY is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is MEATY?
MEATY has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does MEATY come from?
From 'meat', from Old English 'mete' (food in general, later flesh), plus the suffix '-y'.
What can MEATY teach us?
Call a thing meaty and you promise substance; a dish or an argument is judged by what's left after the chewing.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.