Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Informal Having a large or well-developed chest or bust.
- adj. Informal Arrogant or proud; conceited.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Inflated with an undue feeling of one's importance, and inclined to show it in an impudently aggressive way; ignorantly and pretentiously self-assertive.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. marked by a large or well-developed chest.
- adj. having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. marked by a large or well-developed chest
- adj. having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride
Etymologies
- chest + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Liz: Speaking of surprises, did you hear Sawyer call Lapidus "chesty"?”
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“He has - he sort of has that same kind of chesty quality.”
“Eric obediently hands over his wallet; the drunk friend subsides into a stupor; but Ike Marcus gets "chesty," confronting their assailants with the brave and foolhardy formula "Not tonight, my man.”
“He always thought that, so long as a fellow didn't get "chesty" and kept his head from swelling, he was all right.”
“We jokingly refer to those whose self-respect verges on conceit as "chesty," while we compliment one who is not so extreme by saying, "He is no slouch.”
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“But it was dark and I was afoot, and if I was a trifle "chesty," there had suddenly come new colorings to my narrow world.”
“On a few tracks during my testing, the mids were a bit too strong, with treble detail a bit recessed, giving the system a bit of a "chesty" sound, but the overall presentation is full and rich-something you don't usually get with compact,”
“chesty" people on their books; they were, more or less, in the same predicament.”
“chesty" tone, resulting from a labored method of breathing.”
“His primary flaw appears to be a chesty, quick-draw machismo that might be right for an angry base but wrong for an antsy country.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘chesty’.
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Public List: Body Metaphors
Phrases that use body parts metaphorically.
neck of the woods, bone of contention, mouth of a river, teeth of the storm, heart of the matter, foot of the bed, eye of the storm, dogleg hole, finger lakes, headwaters, foothills, knik arm and 212 more...
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Russian Doll Words
A Russian Doll word is a word that, when you remove the first and last letters, is either the empty string, or a Russian Doll word. These are all of the 6 or more letter Russian Doll words found in...
taramea, tawings, tchicks, timider, tirades, tirings, towings, trailed, trailer, trained, trainee, trainer and 2373 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, C
cryptoxanthin, convent, calcar, chuckle, campanile, covet, complexion, campestral, chirography, counterscarp, caliginous, catabolism and 722 more...
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Scriptie: NYPD Blue
I haven't seen this show in forever, but I used to watch reruns all the time.
pros, lawyer up, bookie, shy, stripper, c.i., i.a.b., psych, precinct, 15th, prostrate, take care of the ... and 17 more...
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Pride
pique, vanity, hubris, plume, conceit, preen, arrogance, egotism, hauteur, self-love, supercilious, self-importance and 10 more...
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