suety

1 9.8

Smelling or tasting like hard animal fat used in cooking

adjective
/ˈsuːəti/

: graso

The roast had a suety crust that made it rich and flavorful.

Examples

She noticed a suety layer floating on top of the stew.
The cake had a suety texture that was quite unusual.
The suety smell from the kitchen hinted at the dessert being prepared.
Is this pudding supposed to be suety?
She noticed a suety layer floating on top of the stew.
The roast had a suety crust that made it rich and flavorful.
The suety smell from the kitchen hinted at the dessert being prepared.

Antonyms

nonfat

18 1.6

A food that has no fat, like milk or yogurt

How Fatty

lardy

1 6.7

suety

1 9.8

fatty

69 2.3

greasy

108 1.0

lean

140 2.5

Surface Forms

suety positive

Morphology

suety = suet (transparent) = suet + y

Adjectival formation from the noun 'suet' using the productive suffix '-y' gives a clear 'having the quality of suet' meaning.

Etymology

The word suety comes from suet, the hard animal fat used in cooking. The ending -y means 'like', so suety means 'like suet', with a rich, fatty smell and a soft, greasy feel.