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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
gassy
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As it approaches the sun it starts to evaporate, giving off the familiar long gassy tail.
▪ Goodbye to your sweaty nights, broiling days, gassy ale and loudspeakers never turned down.
▪ He drew back his hands and smelled the gassy foulness.
▪ In some pubs fake hand pumps serve gassy beer.
▪ In the early stages of cold-welding the planets must have been very similar in appearance, with massive outer gassy atmospheres.
▪ It was too fizzy and too gassy to drink and I acquired a taste for real ale.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gassy

Gassy \Gas"sy\, a.

  1. Full of gas; like gas. Hence: [Colloq.] Inflated; full of boastful or insincere talk.

  2. passing intestinal gas excessively; flatulent.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
gassy

1757, from gas + -y (2).

Wiktionary
gassy

a. 1 Of a beverage, containing dissolved gas (usually carbon dioxide). 2 flatulent.

WordNet
gassy
  1. adj. resembling gas

  2. suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal [syn: colicky, flatulent]

  3. [also: gassiest, gassier]

Wikipedia
Gassy

Gassy is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Konstancin-Jeziorna, within Piaseczno County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately east of Konstancin-Jeziorna, east of Piaseczno, and south-east of Warsaw.

In 2014 ferry to Karczew started service. According to people working on this project the main problem was official "no-entry" car, despite road there. Without cars it was not economically reasonable, and after this problem was solved by removing rule, the ferry started.

Usage examples of "gassy".

His foot punched through into some dreadful sliminess and there was a gassy, putrid smell that he barely noticed.

They inspected it all and felt cautiously of the dehorner, its sharp cupped blood-encrusted ends, and they edged up to the smudge pot and held out their gloved hands to its gassy heat.

Patti--The lesson scene and what singers have done with it--Grisi, Alboni, Catalani, Bosio, Gassier, Patti, Sembrich, Melba, and Viardot--An echo of Haydn.

Always used to show up at the parties with some gassy thing, a gopher snake or a white mouse or some gassy thing like that in his pocket?

Gassy came forward to help her with the hooks and eyes of her skirt.

And it wasn't only the fumes from the Engines, but vile sewer-seepings as well, and gassy leakings from collapsible India-rubber bags, that lit the carriage-jets in their wire-netted glass shades.

Gassy Lok had dirt smeared on her face, her hair was plastered to the sides of her head in two wet sheets, and she was wearing an ancient oilskin cape that had come with the farm together with a milk churn and two rotting plows.

It had a green and gassy smell and the flesh had swelled tight against his pants, stretching the khaki fabric until it resembled a sausage casing.

It was rotting before his very eyes and the smell of it was what he had smelled in Christine before, what Leigh had smelled, only it was worse now, it was the high, gassy, gagging smell of high-speed decay, the smell of his own death, and Arnie began to whine as Little Richard came on the radio singing 'Tutti Frutti,' and now the thing's hair was failing out in gossamer white drifts and its collarbones poked through the shiny, stretched skin above the T-shirt's sagging round collar, they poked through like grotesque white pencils.