ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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

  1. (of a fruit or a vegetable) soft as a result of getting overripe
  2. (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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