单词 | fattening |
释义 | fatteningn. The process of making fat or becoming fat. Also the action of thickening (a type). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [noun] > fattening frank?a1400 fatting1577 sagination1607 fattening1614 forcing1790 steaming1943 society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > [noun] > action of thickening type fattening1614 the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [noun] > fat or plump shape or physique > becoming fatting1597 fattening1614 impinguation1640 pinguefying1655 pinguescence1829 stoutening1853 1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husbandry (1668) vii. xxi. 124 Peacocks being..seldome..eaten, it mattereth not much for their fatning. 1623–6 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. ii A Fattening..sagination. 1676 J. Moxon Regulæ Trium Ordinum 32 The Fatning is made by setting off 5 on either side the Centre. 1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 377 Nothing contributes more to expedite the fattening of cattle, than moderate warmth. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2018). fatteningadj. That fattens. a. That makes fat. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [adjective] fatty1590 fructiferous1632 fattening1697 fat1707 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > soil qualities > [adjective] > fertile or rich > fertilizing element battling1555 fructuous1603 battening1612 fattening1697 the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [adjective] > fattening fatting1539 impinguating1620 pinguescent1832 fattening1877 the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [adjective] > fat or plump > making fatting1539 pinguefyinga1679 fattening1877 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 53 Load with fat'ning Dung thy fallow Ground. View more context for this quotation 1866 B. Taylor Mondamin in Poems 255 Fed by fattening rains. 1877 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. ii. v. 297 Sugar or starch..is always a large constituent of ordinary fattening foods. b. That grows fat. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [adjective] > fat or plump > becoming larding1612 fattening1697 fatting1767 pinguescent1797 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals vi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 26 Apollo..bade me feed My fatning Flocks. 1804 Earl of Lauderdale Inq. Nature & Origin Public Wealth iii. 187 Cattle and sheep of a peculiar fattening kind. 1817 Combe's Devil upon Two Sticks (ed. 5) VI. xxv. 185 An occasional sermon for the service of fattening ignorance, or idle opulence. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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