foodyadj.

?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xi. 104 Who brought them to the sable fleet, from Idas foodie leas [Gk. ἐξ Ἴδης].

?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xv. 638 Jove's great queen of birds..Beholds where cranes, swans, cormorants, have made their foody fall [Gk. βοσκομενάων].

?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) ii. 558 She..into well-sew'd sacks pour'd foody meal [Gk. ἄλϕιτα].

1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Foody, Fertile; full of grass. North.

1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike lxxviii. 580 None but fit and foody matters [L. materias aptas ac cibales] concocted and digested by the Stomack, are transmitted into the more remote shops of the digestions.

1868 Littell's Living Age 24 Oct. 251/1 So much that merely repeats the foody and, so to say, heavy, prosaic, dead-labour character of meat, instead of supplementing and completing it.

1938 H. Spring My Son, My Son! i. i. 4 Here I was with the raw night shut out, the familiar, warm, foody smell all about me.

a1969 J. Kerouac Visions of Cody (1992) 18 The smell is always of boiling water mixed with beef, boiling beef,..the smell is curiously the hungriest in America—it is foody instead of just spicy.

1996 C. Higson Getting Rid of Mr Kitchen xiv. 154 The kitchen was off the sitting room, and it too was destroyed, everything breakable was broken,..and, smeared in dripping foody letters across one white wall, was the slogan ‘Happy Birthday’.

1805 J. Luccock Nature & Prop. Wool 123 Wool of this discription is distinguished by the epithets foody and flowery.

1884 W. S. B. McLaren Spinning Woollen & Worsted 149 If a 'foody' bulky yarn is wanted, the French system is best.

1924 R. Beaumont Carpets & Rugs viii. 298 A shorter and finer staple of wool would produce a more 'foody' worsted yarn.