单词 | foul feeder |
释义 | > as lemmasfoul feeder 11. Of food: unpleasant, esp. because coarse or rotten (cf. sense 3). Of diet or consumption: consisting or made up of coarse or unpleasant foodstuffs. In later use usually: designating an animal (or occasionally a person) whose diet habitually consists of food of this kind, esp. one that feeds on carrion. Frequently in foul feeder. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [adjective] > coarse or tough toughc1400 boisterous1483 fulsome1555 foul1560 rough1583 coarse1607 indelicate1751 tough as (old) boots or leather1843 the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > unsavouriness > [adjective] > disgusting queasyc1450 walsh1513 filthy1533 wallowish1548 foul1560 maumish1580 nasty1601 distastable1607 distasteful1611 disgustfula1625 nauseous1649 fulsome1694 mawkisha1697 disgusting1754 pukey1852 brackish1871 wambly1899 bogging1973 feechie1975 angin1994 1560 J. Heywood tr. Seneca Thyestes i. sig. Aiii With fowlest foode thy famyne fyll, let bloode in wyne be drownde, And droonke in syght of thee. 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice iii. 24 If your horse be grosse, fat, and a foule feeder, which is calld a kettie horse. 1713 H. Felton Diss. Reading Classics 66 They are all for rank and foul Feeding. 1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World vii. 248 Not one had an hour's sickness, notwithstanding that we fed on such foul diet without bread or salt. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Slush bucket, a foul feeder, one that eats much greasy food. 1838 Sportsman Jan. 25/1 All the diseases incident to dogs are attributed..to foul feeding. 1922 Geogr. Jrnl. 60 9 It may not be generally known that the hare is occasionally a very foul feeder. 1996 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 17 May (Food section) 9 This fish is also a foul-feeder which likes to congregate beneath toilets built over rivers to feed on human excrement and other unmentionables. < as lemmas |
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