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- adjective Alternative spelling of
suety .
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Examples
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He saw instead a heavy, cruel, jowlish face, with eyelids hooded down over the eyes, and a square thrusting chin buttressed on a mass of jaw and suetty cheek that glistened with an oily shimmer.
The Haunted Bookshop 1918
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The channel may have been suetty but it was not choppy.
Europe Revised 1910
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I want ter feel as I've had summat: a bit o 'suetty dumplin' an '
The Lost Girl 1907
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Probably he thought they heightened effect, much as Charles Lamb spelt plum pudding with a b ” “plumb pudding,” because, he said, “it reads fatter and more suetty.”
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England Scotland and Ireland Tatlow, Joseph 1920
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Tirette continues the story of his major: "Behold one day they'd served us at the barracks with some suetty soup.
Under Fire: the story of a squad Henri Barbusse 1904
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