adjective
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of, relating to, or full of meat
a meaty stew
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heavily built; fleshy or brawny
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full of import or interest
a meaty discussion
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Judaism another word for fleishik
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Origin of meaty
Explanation
Something that's meaty is dense and chewy, or full of rich flavor, like meat. Believe it or not, a meaty portobello mushroom can be a good substitute for a hamburger. If you serve your guests a thick, meaty stew, that means it's actually full of chunks of meat, and when you cook a pan of vegetarian "bacon," it may smell so good and meaty that you tempt even your most carnivorous friends. A figurative way for something to be meaty is to be full of information or substance. A meaty essay will make your history teacher much happier than one that's thin and hastily written.
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As a result, Spurs could offer far superior wages to Tonali and make a meaty bid of about £80m for the Italy midfielder - yet stay within the game's financial rules.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
Stirred into a mushroom stroganoff, it amplifies the fungi’s naturally meaty qualities.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026
I felt like I came into my own a little bit, and so just to find those meaty roles — but they don’t always come along.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
Carl’s Jr., never a chain to shy away from meaty affairs, introduced its Cali XL burger, with two 3.5-ounce beef patties, in November.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 30, 2026
A decision I found myself regretting some hours later when I awoke to two sweaty, meaty hands shaking the holy hell out of me.
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
Acquaintances can drift through conversational banalities or choose to engage in meatier, more satisfying subjects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
And yet: If the White House’s furniture, paintings, and wallpaper inspire the fervent scrutiny of the nation’s interior decorators, it is because meatier changes have been so rare.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2025
This allows for more of a mixed network of the proteins, fats and water, making them meatier and more appealing to consumers.
From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2024
The lawsuit accuses the fast food giant of misleading customers by showing the burger with a meatier patty and ingredients that "overflow over the bun".
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2023
“Aaron,” I say, my heart thundering, my breath catching and turning into meatier and meatier coughs.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
Dr Zelenitsky said that finding only the legs suggested that this teenage gorgosaurus "seems to have wanted the drumsticks - probably because that's the meatiest part".
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2023
The young Gorgosaurus also seems to have been choosy, Zelenitsky says, because it ate only the two hindlegs of each Citipes, the meatiest part of the prey.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 7, 2023
“Odds Against Tomorrow,” a naturalist film noir from 1959, is the meatiest of them — and his last picture for more than a decade, too.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2023
No wonder the conversations among the women — round-robin exchanges between Tess and Kate, Alice and Quinn, Tess and Alice — are the meatiest nodes of “Flight.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
I rank his book as the meatiest and richest of all books dealing with campaigns against Indians.
From Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few Observations by J. Frank (James Frank) Dobie
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