Chesty

Definition: Chesty

Chesty

Adjective

1. Marked by a large or well-developed chest; "he was big-chested, big-shouldered and heavy-armed".

2. Having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride; "an arrogant official"; "arrogant claims"; "chesty as a peacock".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "chesty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1915. (references)

Synonyms: Chesty

I don't want to be Chesty La Rue or Busty St. Claire (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

USN Chesty Anderson (1976)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Marine! The Life of Chesty Puller (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Arnold Genthe riding Chesty. Credit: Library of Congress.

Unidentified man riding Chesty. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Albanian

me gjoks të gjerë. (various references)

Bulgarian 

горд (dignified, high minded, proud, proud-spirited, sublime, vain). (various references)

Czech

drzý (audacious, barefaced, bold, brash, brazen, bumptious, cheeky, cool, fresh, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nervy, pert, saucy, smart, unbridled). (various references)

French

fragile de la poitrine. (various references)

German

geschwollen (billowed, bombastic, inflated, overblown, pompous, puffed, puffy, sententiously, swollen, thick, tumid, tumidly, turgid, turgidly). (various references)

Hungarian

göthös (peaky). (various references)

Manx

scowanagh (bronchial, pulmonary), plooghit (choked, close, congested, frowsty, fuggy, glutted, inundated, overcome with smoke, smothered, stifled, stunk out, suffocated, suppressed, teeming, thick, thick as voice). (various references)

Pig Latin

estychay.(various references)

Portuguese

pretensioso (assuming, assumptive, bounder, bumptious, cocksure, cocksy, cocky, conceited, donnish, exquisite, goody, gooey, hoity-toity, la-di-da, orotund, pretentious, prig, priggish, select, showy, snob, snooty, square-toed, swanky), acastanhado (chestnut). (various references)

Romanian

pieptos (broad-chested, high-bosomed). (various references)

Russian 

чахоточный (hectic, tuberculous), полногрудая. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prsat (bosomy). (various references)

Spanish

enfermizo de pecho. (various references)

Swedish

bröst- (pectoral). (various references)

Turkish

kendini beğenmiş (arrogant, assuming, bighead, bigheaded, bumptious, cavalier, cocky, conceited, egotistical, haughty, high hat, high-flown, high-flying, hoity toity, hoity-toity, holier-than-thou, important, insufferable, jackanapes, jumped-up, mugwump, overweening, pompous, pretentious, prig, priggish, self sufficient, self-important, self-opinionated, self-righteous, smug, Sniffy, snooty, snotty, stuck up, stuffed shirt, stuffy, supercilious, swelled head, swollen-headed, taffy-nosed, toffee-nosed, toffy-nosed, uppish, uppity, upstage, vain), küstah (arrogant, assuming, audacious, bold, bold-faced, brash, brassy, cheeky, cool, flip, flippant, fresh, ill mannered, impertinent, impudent, insolent, insulting, malapert, nervy, overbearing, presuming, presumptuous, stroppy, too familiar, unabashed, wise), göğüsten gelen, büyük göğüslü (bosomy). (various references)

Ukrainian

сухотний (hectic, phthisic), самовпевнений (arrogant, assertive, assuming, assumptive, assured, bold, bumptious, calm, cocksure, cocksy, confident, coxy, nervy, nose-wise, opinionated, opinioned, overconfident, overweening, perk, positive, presuming, reliant, self confident, self sufficient, self-assertive, self-assured, self-opinionated, upstart), слабогрудий, хвалькуватий (boastful, rodomontade, swank, swashing, vainglorious), грудний (mammary, pectoral, sucking), з високими грудьми, повногруда (buxom). (various references)

Vietnamese 

có triệu chứng bệnh phổi. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: scythe.

-1 letter: chest, techy, yechs.

-2 letters: cyst, etch, eths, hest, hets, hyte, sect, stey, stye, syce, they, tyes, yech.

-3 letters: eth, hes, het, hey, sec, set, she, shy, sty, the, thy, tye, yeh, yes, yet.

-4 letters: eh, es, et, he, sh, ye.

+1 letter: scythed, scythes, sketchy, stenchy.

+2 letters: chanteys, chastely, chayotes, chutneys, hysteric, lecythis, lecythus, scyphate, stretchy, yachters.

+3 letters: chemistry, hemocytes, hesitancy, hypothecs, hysterics, latchkeys, sketchily, stitchery, synthetic, trachytes, watcheyes, yachtsmen.

+4 letters: archetypes, athrocytes, chrysolite, chrysotile, eurythmics, heterocyst, histiocyte, hypocrites, hysteretic, hysterical, mesophytic, metaphysic, myasthenic, mythicizes, pachytenes, phagocytes, phenocryst, sphericity, strychnine, synthetics, thylacines, thymocytes, unchastely.

+5 letters: bathyscaphe, chalybeates, chatoyances, cherrystone, choanocytes, chrysolites, chrysophyte, chrysotiles, cytochromes, erythristic, eschatology, eurhythmics, flycatchers, hepatocytes, heterocysts, histiocytes, hyperstatic, hypocenters, hypsometric, lymphocytes, macrophytes, matchlessly, metaphysics, myasthenics, mythicizers, phagocytose, phenocrysts, polychaetes, psychometry, strychnines, sympathetic, synesthetic, trichogynes.