adjective
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filled with, containing, or resembling gas
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informal full of idle or vapid talk
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Lots of goodies and all very rollicking, but so gassy as to be suitable only for the indulgent reader.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
The 2022 study focused directly on Jupiter's cyclones, but Siegelman also saw wispy tendrils, known to researchers as filaments, in the spaces between the gassy vortices.
From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2024
The controversy surrounds a song which says the "g" in the word vegan stands for gassy and the "a for anaemic or annoying".
From BBC • Dec. 7, 2023
They range from ‘super-Earths’ with bizarre geologies and ‘mini-Neptunes’ with gassy atmospheres to ‘hot Jupiters,’ huge planets whirling close to their blazing stars.
From Scientific American • Oct. 18, 2023
She didn’t much like Hecate’s dog or her gassy polecat, either.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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