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Definition of Toasty
1. comfortably warm [adj TOASTIER, TOASTIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Toasty
Literary usage of Toasty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe (1888)
"In any case, he looked with genuine relish upon the prospect of Peter Fallow
building a nice toasty bonfire under all the nobs who looked down on him. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"... to have one on toast, to place another in a corner or dilemma. In America a
very common phrase for anything nicely served. toasty (studios) is said ..."
3. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1852)
"burnt ; it was then scraped with a sharp piece of wood, until free from fur, and
of a rich toasty brown colour; and finally, ..."
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