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Definition: Gassy |
GassyAdjective1. Resembling gass. 2. Suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gassy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1917. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Wines containing excess of carbon dioxide. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | Term denoting a molten pool containing an undue amount of gases. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A mine is said to be gassy when it gives off methane or other gas in quantities that must be diluted with pure air to prevent occurrence ofexplosive mixtures. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: GassySynonyms: colicky (adj), flatulent (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Gassy |
| Specialty definitions using "gassy": compressed-air locomotive ♦ Little Demon exploder ♦ nonpermissible explosive ♦ permissible machine. (references) |
| Play | Caption |
| Latin-influenced excerpt with a blues tinge and gassy synthesized sounds. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The patient may feel gassy and bloated after the procedure. (references) | |
Avoid foods that are high in fiber or can cause cramps or a gassy feeling such as raw fruits and vegetables, coffee and other beverages that contain caffeine, beans, cabbage, whole grain breads and cereals, sweets, and spicy foods. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Gassy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gassy" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 15 | 90,616 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
food gassy | 27 |
gassy | 6 |
gassy stomach | 4 |
gary gassy | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gassy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i gaztë (fluid, gas, gaseous, gasiform), bosh (bare, bladdery, blank, empty, fiddling, hollow, hot air, idle, inane, milk and water, open, thin, trifling, unoccupied, vacant, vacuous, void, white). (various references) | |
Arabic | متبجح (boastful, brag, braggart, bragging, swaggering, windbag), غازي (aeriform, gaseous, gasiform, pneumatic). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | газообразен (aeriform, fluid, gaseous, gasiform), бъбрив (chatty, garrulous, gossipy, long winded, loquacious, mouthy, talkative, voluble), пълен с хвалби. (various references) | |
Czech | plynový (gaseous), nabubřelý (highfaluting, pompous, puffy, stilted, turgid), jalový (barren, frothy, fruitless, vapid), šumivý (bubbly, effervescent, fizzy, sparkling). (various references) | |
Danish | gasholdig, skarp (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, sharp). (various references) | |
Dutch | gashoudend, gaseus. (various references) | |
Finnish | liikaa kuohuva, kaasupitoinen. (various references) | |
French | gazeux (gaseous, gasiform). (various references) | |
German | gashaltig, gasartig (gaseous), vergast, stark gashaltig, schwätzerisch (windy), scharf (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acridly, acrimonious, acute, biting, bitter, caustic, clear, closely, cool, cracking, cutting, discerning, drastic, ferocious, fierce, fiery, hard, harsh, highly seasoned, horny, hot, incisive, keen, keenly, live, lurid, marked, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, piercingly, poignant, poignantly, precise, pungent, pungently, quick, Randy, raw, razor-sharp, savage, scathing, scathingly, severe, sexy, sharp, sharp-edged, sharply, shrewd, shrill, sibilant, slashing, spanking, strict, strong, tangy, tart, tough, trenchant, twangy, vehement, venomous, virulent). (various references) | |
Greek | αερώδησ (aeriform), αεριώδησ (gaseous), αεριώδης, αεριούχοσ (gaseous), αεριούχος. (various references) | |
Hungarian | szénsavas (fizzy), tartalmatlan (it has no guts in it, lean), szószátyár (babbler, bag of wind, chatterbox, diffuse, jay, long winded, long-winded, prolix, windbag), sújtóléges, nagyzoló (gascon, humbug, magniloquent, roister-doister, roistering), nagybeszédű, locsogó (driveling, drivelling, piffler), kérkedő (brag, flaunting, flaunty, ostentatious, pretentious, swashbuckling, vainglorious), hencegő (brag, braggart, bravado, chesty, flaunting, flaunty, hectoring, magniloquent, pretentious), habzó (beady, churning, effervescent, foamy, frothing, frothy, lathery, scummy), gyöngyöző (lathery, sparkling, weeping), fecsegő (babbler, blab, chatty, driveling, drivelling, gossiping, rambler, talker, tatler), dumás (yakky), bányaléges. (various references) | |
Italian | gassoso (gaseous), gassato (gaseous), effervescente (bubbly, effervescent, fizzy, sparkling). (various references) | |
Manx | gassagh (aerated, gaseous, parching, stemmed). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | assygay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | gasoso (aerial, blithering, etherial, fizzy, gaseous, hot-air, overground). (various references) | |
Russian | газообразный (aeriform, gaseous, gasiform), болтливый (blithering, chatty, gabby, garrulous, gossipy, hot air, long-tongued, loquacious, mouthy, talkative, talking, windy), пустой (addle, barren, blank, chaffy, do-nothing, empty, feather-brained, feckless, fiddling, foppish, frivolous, frothy, gossipy, hollow, light, light-headed, null, sunken, vacant, vacuous, vapid). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | gasni (gas). (various references) | |
Spanish | gaseoso (aeriform, fizzy, gaseous). (various references) | |
Swedish | gashaltig, pratig (gossipy, loquacious, verbose), orolig (alarmed, anxious, apprehensive, concerned, fussy, restless, turbulent, uneasy, unsettled, worried, yeasty), full av gas. (various references) | |
Turkish | gazlı (gaseous, gasiform), gaz gibi (gaseous). (various references) | |
Turkmen | gazly (carbonated). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | газоподібний (aeriform, fluid, gaseous, gasiform), заповнений газом. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Gassy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Agastya, assy, bassy, Gadspy, gasik, Gasiyev, gasly, Gasny, gaso, gaspy, gass, gasse, gassey, Gassiem, gassip, gasy, Gatesy, gawsy, gazey, Gazso, Gazzie, gazzy, gensym, gesy, Gissey, gisy, Glssi, gossi, gossy, gpass, gss. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "gassy" (pronounced 'Gas"sy'): Achromatopsy, Apepsy, Clumsy, Eclampsy, Gipsy, Leasy, Madegassy, Misy, Mucksy, Photopsy, Posy, Prosopolepsy, Pursy, Queasy, Quinsy, Slimsy, Squinsy, tansy, tipsy, tricksy, Unsonsy, Weasy. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-s-s-y" | |
-1 letter: gays, sags, sagy, says. | |
-2 letters: ass, ays, gas, gay, sag, say. | |
-3 letters: ag, as, ay, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-s-s-y" | |
+1 letter: glassy, grassy, syngas. | |
+2 letters: gassily, gayness, gyrases, sayings. | |
+3 letters: assaying, azygoses, essaying, eyeglass, gainsays, glassily, glossary, grassily, grayness, gymnasts, nosegays, raygrass, ryegrass, slayings, spyglass, synagogs, syngases, syringas. | |
+4 letters: agelessly, bypassing, cageyness, gaynesses, gossamery, gyrostats, langsynes, missaying, mystagogs, nystagmus, sashaying, spagyrics, stingrays, synapsing, synergias, syngamies, syngasses, syntagmas. | |
+5 letters: dysphagias, eyeglasses, gainsayers, grayfishes, graynesses, gunnysacks, gymnasiums, gymnastics, passageway, raygrasses, ryegrasses, satisfying, scallywags, slashingly, smashingly, spirogyras, spyglasses, synagogues. | |
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