a. Also -etty. [f. SUET + -Y1.]
1. Of the nature of suet.
1730. Bailey (fol.), Steatocele, a preternatural Tumour in the Scrotum of a suety or Suet-like Consistence.
1739. Sharpe, Surg., xxv. 125. If the Matter forming them resembles Milk-Curds, the tumour is call’d Atheroma;… if compos’d of Fat, or a suety Substance, Steatoma.
1802. Med. Jrnl., VIII. 564. That rare change of structure in the ovarium in which it is found to contain masses of suetty matter.
1871. Scoffern, in Belgravia, III. 442. The fat is hard or suety.
b. fig. Pale-faced.
1801. Southey, Lett. (1856), I. 152. Do you remember the suetty, small-pox man at Gray’s Inn?
2. Full of suet; made with suet.
1807. Lamb, Lett. to J. Hume, 29 Dec. I always spell plumb-pudding with a b, p-l-u-m-b—I think it reads fatter and more suetty.
1897. Daily News, 3 May, 4/1. Great, round, soft, suetty puddings, pitted black with plums.
1903. Farmer & Henley, Slang, Suetty-Isaac,… suet pudding.
