单词 | meaty |
释义 | meatyadj. 1. a. Of a person or animal: having a substantial amount of flesh or muscle; brawny. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > [adjective] > stout or strong > fat of hawt greesc1460 tallowy1495 well-meated1566 sour1713 meaty1787 1787 W. Marshall Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Norfolk II. 383 Meaty, fleshy, but not ‘right fat’. 1813 W. Alliston Sylphs of Seasons 74 Had I that fat and meaty skull, Those bloated cheeks, and eyes so dull. 1900 Andover Advertiser 19 Oct. Meaty steers. 1935 J. T. Farrell Judgment Day vii. 161 He watched..a girl whose slim, tall but meaty figure was wrapped in a stylish blue cloth coat. 1978 D. Potter Brimstone & Treacle 2/2 All the time you can see the sharp—the shiny—weapon in the surgeon's meaty hand. 1990 Rolling Stone 22 Mar. 94/1 Slick set about waffling Joe's meaty back with his manager's cane. b. Of food or drink: containing meat or a meat product; having a generous amount of meat. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > [adjective] > relating to meat > full of meat well-meated1842 meaty1851 fleishig1897 1851 Sci. Amer. 15 Mar. 202/4 When the meat is so far boiled or macerated that the liquid or broth contains the entire nutriment, the meaty or corporeous portions are separated. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. v. 44 Meaty jelly. 1894 M. Saunders Beautiful Joe 162 I always give a hungry dog A nice, fat, meaty bone. 1979 D. Smith Cookery Course II. 297 On the other hand, a meaty stock makes the world of difference to clear-based soups. 1990 Midwest Living Feb. 65 What kind of chili—red, white, or brown; beaney, meaty, or tomatoey? c. Having the flavour, aroma, taste, or texture of meat; resembling meat. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > [adjective] > relating to meat meatish1540 fleshy1665 creatic1851 meaty1853 1853 Harper's Mag. Oct. 706/1 Beef has already done service in giving a meaty flavor to the barley soup. 1864 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 27 Sept. Inhaling the glorious aroma of the meaty Eden. 1865 Reader No. 144. 363/2 A very meaty egg. 1883 G. Allen in Knowledge 20 July 34/1 In a crab..the meatiest part..consists of [etc.]. 1931 V. Woolf Waves 98 A meaty, vapourish smell of beef and mutton, sausages and mash, hangs down like a damp net in the middle of the eating-house. 1990 Los Angeles Times 16 Aug. h13/2 The honshimeji is now cultivated in Japan. Although small, it has a good meaty flavor. 1998 M. Gluck Superplonk 1999 229 Big rich meaty wine now, heavier than the last batch. 2. figurative (originally U.S.). Full of substance or interest. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > [adjective] sensiblea1393 eloquent1393 rhetoricc1450 mightya1500 pithy1529 grave1541 pithful1548 weighty1560 sappy1563 emphatical1567 fasta1568 thwacking1567 forceful1571 enforceable1589 energetical1596 eloquious1599 sinewy1600 emphatic1602 sinewed1604 strong1604 tonitruous1606 nervose1645 nervous1663 energetic1674 energic1683 strong1685 cogent1718 lapidary1724 forcible1726 authoritative1749 terse1777 telling1819 vigorous1821 sturdy1822 tonitruant1861 meaty1874 vertebrate1882 energized1887 jawy1898 heavy1970 1874 Galaxy May 700/1 It would be easy to cite hundreds of terse, strong, and meaty expressions from the Elder's sermons. 1881 G. S. Hall Aspects German Culture 105 I think any discussion of it would be likely to be rather more meaty than..inane speculations about the nature of the Beautiful and Sublime. 1902 Academy 13 Dec. 655/2 The sentences are really too ‘meaty’. 1917 W. Owen Let. 22 Aug. (1967) 487 Quite potatoey after the meaty Morals. 1971 Daily Tel. 30 Jan. 5/1 Ulster's UTV Reports (ITV) and the rival Scene Around Six (BBC 1) are intrinsically meaty, not to say weighed down with the heavy stuff. 1990 CU Amiga Apr. 63/1 Just a glance through..Starbyte's latest RPG leads us to believe that R.O.M. is quite a meaty piece of software. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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