Wastey
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Wastey is an adjective meaning (of an animal, or a meat) too fat, as opposed to meaty.
Meaning
(of an animal, or a meat) too fat, as opposed to meaty.
More Meanings
- (of a fruit or a vegetable) soft as a result of getting overripe
- (slang) getting drunk close to being wasted
Example Sentences
Frosted or wastey fruit will be unsalable.
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."
Synonyms for wastey
Depending on context, synonyms include overfinished, wasty, swash, swashy, inebriated, soused.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include wasty, fat-witted, fatsome, fat-kidneyed, greasy, waste-ridden.
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