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festy

adjective, noun

festy is an adjective meaning “Disgusting” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-S-T-Y, and it appears about once in every 81 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does festy mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    AustraliaslangDisgusting.

  2. 2

    AustraliaslangVery bad, dreadful.

noun

  1. 1

    slangA festival.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce festy?

  • Australia

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: EN-AU_ck1_festy.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of festy

  • more festy comparative
  • most festy superlative
  • festies plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is festy?

Festy appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does festy come from?

From festival + -y (“diminutive suffix”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).