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单词 rancid
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rancidadj.n.

Brit. /ˈransɪd/, U.S. /ˈrænsəd/
Forms: 1600s rancide, 1600s– rancid.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin rancidus.
Etymology: < classical Latin rancidus rotten, putrid, offending good taste < rancere to be rotten or putrid, of uncertain origin + -idus -id suffix1. Compare Middle French †rancide (1570 in an apparently isolated attestation), Spanish †ráncido (late 16th cent.), Italian rancido (1340). Compare rancour n.Compare also (with regular phonological development, showing loss of the intervocalic -d- ) French rance (10th cent. in Old French in figurative sense ‘morally depraved’, first half of the 14th cent. in Old French or Middle French in concrete sense, originally designating the odour emanating from an old sow, 1552 with reference to fat or oil and foods containing these), Catalan ranci (1413), Spanish rancio (see rancio n.), Italian rancio (second half of the 15th cent.; now archaic).
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).
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