fire-fangedadj.
/ˈfʌɪəfaŋd/, U.S. /ˈfaɪ(ə)rfæŋd/, Scottish English /ˈfaɪrfaŋd/ Originally Scottish, in later use chiefly North American.† 1. Damaged by excessive heat; singed, scorched. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [adjective] > qualities of
fire-fangeda1522
well-winnowed1585
kerned1602
winnowed1609
long-grained1614
chafflessa1616
grindable1652
mealable1823
cracked1833
ungrindable1840
millable1869
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > [adjective] > injured by heat or fire
burnt1393
adust?a1425
fire-fangeda1522
adusted?1550
torrid1611
scathed1791
blackened1859
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xii. v. 201 This Chorineus..Ruschit on hys fa, thus fyrefangit and onsaucht [L. turbati].
1615 G. Markham Eng. House-wife (1668) ii. vii. 166 Too..hasty a fire scorcheth and burneth it [sc. the Malt], which is called among Maltsters Fire-fang'd.
1790 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2) Fire-fanged, fire-bitten. Spoken of oatmeal &c. that is overdried. North.
1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Fire-fanged, of oats or barley too hastily dried in the kiln.
2. Of crops or manure: damaged by spontaneous overheating; (of cheese) having a scorched appearance or taste. Now rare.
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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > cheese > [adjective] > qualities of cheese
miteyc1650
two-meal1741
fire-fanged1808
mature1833
blue-vinnied1838
skimmed1881
blue vein1893
open-meated1896
well-meated1896
blue-veined1898
bleu1918
crustless1927
1762 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. iii. v. 335 Dung, in this situation [sc. burnt or over-heated] is dry and white; the plowmen call it fire-fanged.
1794 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XIII. 53 Keep it [sc. a dunghill] always pretty broad above, that it may receive and retain as much of the rain as may keep it from being too much heated, or, as we call it, fire-fanged.
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (at cited word) Cheese is said to be firefangit, when it is swelled and cracked, and has received a peculiar taste, in consequence of being exposed to much heat.
1837 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 139/2 The butter was bursted, the cheese fire-fanged.
1862 Ohio Cultivator Sept. 267/2 Fire-fanged stable manure with its nitrogen thus exhausted, has not half the value of slowly decomposed manure.
1898 R. Kipling Day's Work 70 How long hev ye been pawin' this fire-fanged stable-litter?
1920 Seed World 2 Apr. 13/3 Barnyard manure, fresh or well rotted, but not fire fanged.
1945 Cornell Extension Bull. No. 641. 2 In three or four months the inside of the pile [of poultry manure] may turn gray, or is said to be ‘fire fanged’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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