Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Consisting of suet or resembling it: as, a suety substance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Consisting of, or resembling, suet.
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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of
suet .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective like or full of suet
Etymologies
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Examples
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This prejudice was based on the powdered version we were served at school; brick red, strangely tangy, and studded with suety strands of pasta, yet which, despite these obvious handicaps, often proved the least of a veritable feast of evils – I must have eaten it at least twice a week between the age of eight and 13, and not once since.
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Visitors may be amused to find themselves rubbing shoulders with gap-toothed, walking-frame, and wheelchair-bound hippie-replacements with sparse ponytails and lots of suety overhang.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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Visitors may be amused to find themselves rubbing shoulders with gap-toothed, walking-frame, and wheelchair-bound hippie-replacements with sparse ponytails and lots of suety overhang.
Psychedelic Denver 2009
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Fluffy, suety dumplings are one of the few dishes that make me nostalgic for school dinners – although this rich, savoury, slowly simmered stew is definitely a cut above the average canteen offering.
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It spoke in a thick, suety sort of voice, and Alice hadn't a word to say in reply; she could only sit and look at it and gasp.
Joyce Carol Oates's 'In the Absence of Mentors/Monsters': Narrative Magazine 2010
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It spoke in a thick, suety sort of voice, and Alice hadn't a word to say in reply; she could only sit and look at it and gasp.
Joyce Carol Oates's 'In the Absence of Mentors/Monsters': Narrative Magazine 2010
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For when the fat consists of lard, then the marrow also is unctuous and lard-like; but when the blood is converted by concoction into suet, and does not assume the form of lard, then the marrow also has a suety character.
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But the coal-black eyes set like gems in that wide, suety face seemed to generate beams of invisible light that probed the darkest recesses of the soul.
The White Ninja Lustbader, Eric 1990
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Batting her lashes, the suety face blotched with patches of adhesive and strands of false hair.
Over the Edge Jonathan Kellerman 1987
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Batting her lashes, the suety face blotched with patches of adhesive and strands of false hair.
Over the Edge Jonathan Kellerman 1987
she commented on the word suety
' "What impertinence!" said the Pudding. "I wonder how you'd like it, if I were to cut a slice out of you, you creature!"
It spoke in a thick, suety sort of voice, and Alice hadn't a word to say in reply: she could only sit and look at it and gasp.
"Make a remark," said the Red Queen: "it's ridiculous to leave all the conversation to the pudding!" '
July 18, 2008