wasty

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Adjective

wasty (comparative wastier, superlative wastiest)

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

   Synonym of overfinished#English|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.

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