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Gassy

Definition: Gassy

Gassy

Adjective

1. 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)

 

Specialty Definition: Gassy

DomainDefinition

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.

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Synonyms: Gassy

Synonyms: colicky (adj), flatulent (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Gassy

Specialty definitions using "gassy": compressed-air locomotiveLittle Demon explodernonpermissible explosivepermissible machine. (references)

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Sounds Captioned with "Gassy".

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Latin-influenced excerpt with a blues tinge and gassy synthesized sounds.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Gassy

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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.

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Usage Frequency: Gassy

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%1590,616

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Gassy

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

food gassy

27

gassy

6

gassy stomach

4

gary gassy

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Gassy

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.

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Misspellings: Gassy

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).

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Rhyming with "Gassy"

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)

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Anagrams: Gassy

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.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Sounds
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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