单词 | rancid |
释义 | rancidadj.n. 1. Of fat or oil, or foods containing these: having an unpleasant taste or smell as a result of decomposition; rank, stale, sour; (also) designating such a taste or smell. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > [adjective] foul-stinkingOE poignantc1387 rammishc1395 rank1479 reekya1500 puanta1529 unsavoury1539 uglyc1540 contagious1547 noisome1559 fulsome1576 fetid1599 nasty1601 unsweet1605 rammy1607 stenchful1615 stinkardly1616 rancid1627 reeking1629 pungent1644 olidous1646 stenching1654 graveolent1657 maleolent1657 virous1661 olid1680 ranciduous1688 feculent1703 virose1756 stenchy1757 infragrant1813 inodorous1823 nosy1836 malodorous1850 unfragrant1858 smelly1862 cacodorous1863 stinky1888 funked out1893 niffya1903 whiffy1905 pongy1936 fresh1966 minging1970 bogging1973 bowfing1983 honking1985 the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > unsavouriness > [adjective] > rank or rancid restya1325 rest1381 rammishc1395 areast1440 reested?c1475 reesed1486 musty1492 rusty?1521 turned1548 reasty1573 froughy1579 flatten1594 reasy1598 rammy1607 rancid1627 loud1641 ranked1648 virous1661 ranciduous1688 raftya1722 virose1756 reeky1854 loud-flavoured1866 1627 G. Hakewill Apologie iv. vii. 364 Our Ancestours well lik't a rancid boare, not that They had no nose, but (as I thinke) if guests came late, 'Twas thought much fitter they should eate a tainted one. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 114 A garous excretion or a rancide and olidous separation. 1676 J. Evelyn Philos. Disc. Earth 159 Houses of Ordure, or rancid mould. 1731 J. Arbuthnot Ess. Nature Aliments iv. 37 The Oils with which Fishes abound often turn rancid..and affect the very Sweat with a rancid Smell. 1775 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 65 412 It may be remarked, that when we buy fresh or new myrrh, it has always a very strong, rancid, oily smell. 1809 A. Wilson Foresters in Port Folio 1 544 The black wet bread, with rancid butter spread. 1848 Times 21 Dec. 8/3 Unfortunately, so much of it [sc. suet] was already in a rancid state that it is of very little use. 1888 A. Jessopp Coming of Friars ii. 90 It must have been only too common to find the bacon more than rancid. 1930 J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel i. 20 Then he went off down the street leaving behind him a long trail of rancid smoke. 1937 Life 16 Aug. 4/1 (advt.) Dated Coffee is always delicious and never has that rancid taste. 1977 R. B. Tisserand Art of Aromatherapy x. 161 Another important consideration is that nearly all vegetable and essential oils oxidise: they go rancid. 1989 P. Genega Striking Water 72 Rancid fish and wrackweed, broken shell and coral, mark my travel like a tideline. 1991 Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 24 Feb. 16/4 The aromatic mix of body odor and rancid fabric serving to remind inmates where they stood on the social ladder. 2002 M. Kurlansky Salt (2003) xi. 187 With no refrigeration, unsalted butter quickly becomes rancid. 2. figurative. As if sour with age or decomposition; disagreeable, odious, nasty. Also occasionally as n. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > offensiveness > [adjective] bysenc1375 offensivea1548 nasty1548 beastly1584 whelpish1586 heathenish1592 viperous1593 vermin1602 verminousc1616 unchristian1630 verminian1640 rancida1646 verminly1653 spider-like1655 exceptionable1691 skunky1842 slaggy1943 schmucky1952 grotty1964 grody1965 a1646 W. Raleigh Reliquiæ Raleighanæ (1679) v. 165 An old rancid opinion long since broached by Faustus and Cassianus. 1669 H. More Antidote Idolatry i. 4 in Expos. 7 Epist. There cannot be the least Relaxation to the most rancid of all Superstitions, Idolatry it self. 1700 S. Wesley Epist. Poetry 11 To his Cell the rancid God retir'd. 1767 W. Harte Amaranth 243 Ambition push'd forth many a vig'rous shoot, And rancid jealousy manur'd the root. 1819 Ld. Byron Let. 29 Oct. (1976) VI. 238 Saranzo..is of course in the..crazy recollection of their rancid amours. 1833 J. Constable Let. 3 Apr. (1965) III. 98 He is too fond, of rancid old art. 1892 ‘M. Twain’ Amer. Claimant xv. 156 He couldn't get his breath at first. When he did get it, it came rancid with sarcasm. a1930 D. H. Lawrence Last Poems (1932) 251 The rancid old men that don't die because the gods don't want them. 1941 E. P. O'Donnell Great Big Doorstep ix. 125 If she ain't a rancid! She's sweet as sugar to Evvie jiss to get Evvie in a good humor, then she turn around and talk sarcastic. 1973 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Mar. 304/3 The movement was sufficiently vague for any rancid provincial mediocrity to come to believe that he was himself at the centre. 1990 B. Rhode Melissa Sue iii. 29 Her vocabulary is rancid with profanity. 2006 New Yorker 30 Oct. 100/1 Rancid with self-regard..he even sings along to his own theme song on the radio. Derivatives ˈrancidly adv. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > [adverb] fouleOE foullyOE puantlya1529 stinkingly1545 rammishly1567 noisomely1589 stinking1589 rankfully1607 rancidly1637 sulphuriously1638 pungently1658 rankly1661 sulphureously1677 overcomingly1840 loud1871 unfragrantly1883 malodorously1903 the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > unsavouriness > [adverb] > rancidly rammishly1567 rancidly1637 1637 A. Baker Autobiogr. in J. McCann & H. Connolly Memorials (1933) 25 He..sung..so rancidly, hoarsly, untunably and untowardly. 1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity i. xxii. 86 These false Apostles having abused the belief..so grossely and rancidly. 1856 Southern Q. Rev. Apr. 57 Lumpy breadstuffs, leaden and rancidly larded. 1869 R. F. Burton Let. 10 Apr. in Lett. from Paraguay 415 The rest on board..smelt rancidly of cabbage and garlic. 1905 Courier (Connellsville, Pa) 18 Mar. 4/1 The News, as it has repeatedly, rampantly, raucously and rancidly declared, is a Democrat. 1995 Eng. Hist. Rev. 110 731 Espionage flourishes most rancidly during periods of ideological conflict. 2006 Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs.) (Nexis) 1 Mar. 25 McGowan plays DI Gill Mayo, a man with all the quality of a rancidly soured bottle of Happy Shopper salad cream. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1627 |
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