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单词 mud-fat
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mud-fatadj.

Brit. /ˈmʌdfat/, U.S. /ˈmədˌfæt/, Irish English /ˈmʌdfæt/, Australian English /ˈmʌdfæt/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mud n.1, fat adj.
Etymology: < mud n.1 (perhaps compare sense Phrases 2 at that entry) + fat adj.
Irish English and Australian.
Of an animal: well fatted, in prime condition. Also more generally: very fat.
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1833 Paddy Kelly's Budget 14 Aug. 228/2 For the invention of an apparatus..by which the food being introduced into the stomach of the animal, he becomes mud fat in a very short space of time.
1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down 70 Mud fat, very fat. ‘The grass here is that good, that in six weeks a beast will get mud fat on it.’
1880 Argus (Melbourne) 17 Feb. 9/3 Bullocks are ‘mud-fat’ almost all the year round.
a1908 H. C. Hart MS Coll. Ulster Words in M. Traynor Eng. Dial. Donegal (1953) 191/1 You might bog your fingers in her, she's that mudfat.
1941 Bulletin (Sydney) 16 July 16/1 When you see the mongs as mud-fat as they are y' can bet the missus is a rotten cook an' has to throw a lot of stuff to 'em.
1973 D. Wallace Generation Gap 197 Eight hundred [hoggets] were sold mud-fat and the rest were disposed of later on.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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