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ˈmoth-eaten, a.
Eaten away or destroyed by moths. Often fig.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. x. 362 Owre bakkes þat moth-eten be. 1551Robinson tr. More's Utopia Ep. (1895) 25 Whatsoeuer is not stuffed full of olde moughteaten termes. a1660Contemp. Hist. Irel. (Ir. Archæol. Soc.) III. 85 Sufficient motiue to moue the moat-eaten conferences of these poysonall anti-Catholicks. 1796M. Robinson Angelina I. 241 Like a bale of cotton..grown yellow by keeping, and moth-eaten by ill-nature. 1809E. S. Barrett Setting Sun I. 28 The old system is moth-eaten, and kings have had a severe lesson. 1882J. Hawthorne Fort. Fool i. x, The mortality symbolised by the poor moth-eaten clothes. |