meaty, a.
(ˈmiːtɪ)
[f. meat n. + -y1.]
1. Full of meat; fleshy.
| 1787 W. Marshall Norfolk (1795) II. Gloss., Meaty, adj. fleshy, but not ‘right fat’. 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.]. 1900 Andover Advertiser 19 Oct., Meaty steers. |
b. fig. (chiefly U.S.) Full of substance.
| 1881 G. S. Hall 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. 1896 Advt. of Preacher's Compl. Homilet. Comm. (N.Y.), The Index suggests thousands of meaty themes for sermons. 1902 Academy 13 Dec. 655/2 The sentences are really too ‘meaty’. |
2. Of or pertaining to meat; having the flavour of meat.
| 1864 Sala in Daily Tel. 27 Sept., Inhaling the glorious aroma of the meaty Eden. 1865 Dickens Mut. Fr. i. v, Meaty jelly. |
Hence ˈmeatiness.
| 1873 Trollope Australia I. 57, I felt as though I were pervaded by meatiness for many hours. |