wasty

English

Adjective

wasty (comparative wastier, superlative wastiest)

1. Of animals reared for meat: obese; undesirably fat.

   Synonym of overfinished

   • 1906, The Illinois Agriculturist, volume 11, page 239:

     Then, too, the market demand is not so much for the extreme early maturing, excessive fat type, but it is for a trimmer, “less wasty” hog.

   • 1958, John M. Kays, Basic animal husbandry, page 269:

     A trim-middled hog will have a higher dressing percentage than a wasty, gutty, paunchy, heavy-middled hog.

   • 1999, J. S. Pruthi, Quick Freezing Preservation of Foods: Foods of animal origin:

     Young animals are angular and slightly thin-fleshed; mature animals are slightly thick-fleshed, but irregular in contour. Fat covering varies from thin in young animals to moderately thick in mature animals and may be patchy or wasty.

Anagrams

• Wayts