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  • adjective Alternative spelling of suety.

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Examples

  • He saw instead a heavy, cruel, jowlish face, with eyelids hooded down over the eyes, and a square thrusting chin buttressed on a mass of jaw and suetty cheek that glistened with an oily shimmer.

    The Haunted Bookshop 1918

  • The channel may have been suetty but it was not choppy.

    Europe Revised 1910

  • I want ter feel as I've had summat: a bit o 'suetty dumplin' an '

    The Lost Girl 1907

  • Probably he thought they heightened effect, much as Charles Lamb spelt plum pudding with a b ” “plumb pudding,” because, he said, “it reads fatter and more suetty.”

    Fifty Years of Railway Life in England Scotland and Ireland Tatlow, Joseph 1920

  • Tirette continues the story of his major: "Behold one day they'd served us at the barracks with some suetty soup.

    Under Fire: the story of a squad Henri Barbusse 1904

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