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rancid, a.|ˈrænsɪd|
Also 7 rancide.
[ad. L. rancid-us stinking, rank, whence also obs. F. rancide (mod.F. rance). Cf. rancour.]
1. Having the rank unpleasant taste or smell characteristic of oils and fats when no longer fresh. Hence of tastes or smells.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 114 A garous excretion or a rancide and olidous separation. 1731Arbuthnot Aliments iv, The Oils, with which Fishes abound often turn rancid..and affect the very Sweat with a rancid Smell. 1766Smollett Trav. 200 The oil thus procured is apt to grow rancid. a1813A. Wilson Foresters Poet. Wks. (1846) 215 The black wet bread, with rancid butter spread. 1889Jessopp Coming of Friars ii. 90 It must have been only too common to find the bacon more than rancid.
2. fig. Nasty, disagreeable, odious. Also as n.
1833J. Constable Let. 3 Apr. (1965) III. 98 He is too fond, of rancid old art. 1883Gd. Words 109 Their unctuous, rancid words about their Christian affection. 1884Stevenson New Arab. Nts. 219 He's a rancid fellow. 1892‘Mark Twain’ Amer. Claimant xv. 156 He couldn't get his breath at first. When he did get it, it came rancid with sarcasm. 1912B. Pain Locris of Tower in Stories in Grey 195 Black kid gloves, the most rancid form of gloves. 1924E. F. Benson David of King's v. 79 ‘When Milton talked of a pansy, he called it ‘freaked with jet’.’ ‘O Lord, did he really?’ said David. ‘How frightfully rancid!’ a1930D. H. Lawrence Old Men in Last Poems 251 The rancid old men that don't die because the gods don't want them..Old people fixed in a rancid resistance to life, fixed to the letter of the law. 1941E. P. O'Donnell Great Big Doorstep ix. 125 If she ain't a rancid! She's sweet as sugar to Evvie jiss to get Evvie in a good humor, then she turn around and talk sarcastic. 1973Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Mar. 304/3 The movement was sufficiently vague for any rancid provincial mediocrity to come to believe that he was himself at the centre.
Hence ˈrancidly adv.; ˈrancidness. Also † ranˈciduous a., rancid.
1664H. More Myst. Iniq. i. xxii. 86 These false Apostles having abused the belief..so grossely and rancidly. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 388/1 The Ranciduous, or Mouldy Scent is..from things corrupted. 1755Johnson, Rancidness. 1789G. White Selborne xliv, From this food their flesh has contracted a rancidness which occasions them to be rejected by nicer judges of eating. |