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left-over, a. and n.
[left ppl. a. 2. Cf. leave v.1 14 e.]
A. adj. Remaining over; not used up or disposed of.
1897R. M. Stuart In Simpkinsville 65 A bundle of left-over flowers. 1905Westm. Gaz. 28 Dec. 2/1 If..they find themselves with a left-over stock of life-force. 1907Smart Set Feb. 13/1 She tacitly avoided him, and his left⁓over moments had..been spent philandering. 1967N. Freeling Strike Out 103 The rice had left-over ham and chicken in it. 1968Listener 4 Apr. 438 (caption) Is that leftover macaroni cheese..still in the fridge? 1972Guardian 30 Dec. 13/3 Many senior EEC officials..make regular bookings out of Brussels, and the casual visitor has to battle for the left-over seats.
B. n. Something remaining over; esp. a portion of some article of food left over from a meal. Freq. pl. Also transf.
1891Cassell's Family Mag. May 374/1 They all like change of diet, so I provide all sorts of things, with the result that the ‘left-overs’, as I call them, are appalling. 1897R. M. Stuart In Simpkinsville 64, I try to keep the Potter's field a-bloomin' with my left-overs. 1906Daily Chron. 19 Sept. 4/4 We are almost yawning at the ‘left⁓overs’ of the scandal banquet. 1950H. J. Massingham Curious Traveller iv. 71 Now only the shoddy left-overs from the export trade can be bought at inflated prices. 1964Punch 8 Jan. 73/2 Adlibbing madly on Mrs. Hannah Glasse's ‘Domestic Cookery Made Easy’ (1747) he will combine assorted garden leftovers, crab-apples, damsons, blackberries, radish-pods. 1974Sunday Express 21 Apr. 23/1 (Advt.), As for the babies' left-overs—well, I really scoffed those.
b. A survival.
1902Kipling Traffics & Discov. (1904) 169 'E's a left⁓over from Majuba—one of the worst kind. 1911L. Abbott Amer. in Making 94 The dread of this Executive power is a curious left-over from Colonial days. 1927H. E. Fosdick Pilgrimage to Palestine 252 In this ancient monastery these left-overs of a bygone age guard their relics. 1971I. G. Gass et al. Understanding Earth vii. 102/1 Meteoritic debris (probably representing left-overs from the time of formation of the solar system). |