toasty

English

Etymology

From toast +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtoʊsti/
• Rhymes: -əʊsti

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Adjective

toasty (comparative toastier, superlative toastiest)

1. Resembling or characteristic of toast.
   • 2013, Michelle Zarrin, From My Heart to Yours, page 1:

     The toasty smell of baked baguettes pulled out of the oven, of vanilla, butter and sugar from the pastries, resonated in the air.

2. (colloquial) Pleasantly warm.

   Hypernym: cosy

   • 1918, Gene Stratton-Porter, A Daughter of the Land:

     […] would you want to go to the expense of setting up a furnace in the cellar? It would make the whole house toasty warm; […]

Derived terms

• toastiness

Related terms

• French-toasty

Translations

pleasantly warm

• Bulgarian: леко затоплен (leko zatoplen)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 暖烘烘 (zh) (nuǎnhōnghōng)

• Swedish: gosig (sv)

Noun

toasty (plural toasties)

1. Alternative form of toastie
   • (Can we date this quote?), Cindy Kline, Shamrocks, Shenanigans and Murder: A Molly McGuire Cozy Mystery Book 3, Cindy Kline:

     Ciara and I were in the backroom having a cup of tea and a ham and cheese toasty, along with a bowl of potato leek soup we'd ordered from the café next door. Ciara set her toasty down and took a sip of her soup.

   • 2019 August 8, John Whaite, A Flash in the Pan: Simple, speedy stovetop recipes, Octopus Books, →ISBN:

     Before we begin, let's get one thing straight: a grilled cheese sandwich is not just a cheese toasty. A toasty is made in one of those pillow-shaped machines (preferably with a baked bean and Cheddar filling). A grilled cheese sandwich, […]

Anagrams

• Taytos