putridadj.

Brit.

/ˈpjuːtrɪd/, U.S.

/ˈpjutrɪd/

Forms: Middle English–1500s putryd, late Middle English putrede, late Middle English–1600s putride, late Middle English– putred (now nonstandard), late Middle English– putrid, 1600s putri'd.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French putride; Latin putridus.

Etymology: < Middle French putride (of a fever) caused by putrefaction (1314 in Old French in fievre putride : see putrid fever n. at Compounds), in a state of putrefaction, foul (16th cent. in Paré; French putride ) and its etymon classical Latin putridus rotten, decaying, foul, purulent, diseased, (of soil) crumbly < putrēre to rot ( < puter (also putris ) rotten < an extended form of the same Indo-European base as pūs purulent matter: see foul adj.) + -idus -id suffix¹.In sense 5 originally rendering classical Latin putris in Virgil. Compare the following slightly earlier example (perhaps in sense ‘overripe’), although it is unclear whether this is to be interpreted as Anglo-Norman or Middle English:1420–1 in N. S. B. Gras Early Eng. Customs Syst. (1918) 495 De Philippo Albert pro..xxi balis dates putrid, pr. £ xxviii. In form putri'd apparently reinterpreted as past participle (see -ed suffix¹).

1. In a state of decomposition; putrefied, rotten.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > rotten or putrefied

forrottedc897

foulOE

rotted?c1225

rottena1250

corruptc1380

enraged1398

putrefieda1413

purulent?a1425

putrid?a1425

ranka1425

rottenly1435

corrupped1533

corruptious1559

attainted1573

rot1573

putrefacted1574

baggage1576

tainted1577

pourryc1580

corruptive1593

putrilaginous1598

putrefactious1609

taint1620

putid1660

rottenish1691

septic1746

corrupted1807

mullocky1839

rotty1872

seething1875

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > corruption or putridness > [adjective] > corrupt or putrid

rottingeOE

foulOE

rotted?c1225

rottena1250

corruptc1380

putrefieda1413

putrid?a1425

ranka1425

rottenly1435

pourryc1450

moskin1531

corrupped1533

corrupting1567

attainted1573

rot1573

putrefacted1574

baggage1576

tainted1577

pury1602

putrefactious1609

putrefactive1610

taint1620

putrescent1624

festerous1628

putid1660

scandalous1676

rottenish1691

putrefying1746–7

septic1746

corrupted1807

decomposing1833

decomposed1846

seething1875

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 75^v I say þe signez ar greuousnes & heuynez of þe sidez biside þe false costez & putride [?c1425 Paris roten; L. putridum] spotelle.

c1425 tr. J. Arderne Treat. Fistula (Sloane 6) (1910) 34 (MED) At morne..þe emplastre remoued, þer appered aboue ȝe emplastre ful putrid quitour in superflue quantite.

1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie i. Proem. sig. B5^v Quake guzzell dogs, that liue on putred slime, Skud from the lashes of my yerking rime.

1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. iv. 28 [He] made innumerable trials with the putrid Flesh of all sorts of Beasts and Fowls.

1750 tr. C. Leonardus Mirror of Stones 83 Coral cleanses putrid sores.

1777 J. Priestley Matter & Spirit (1782) I. x. 130 Only vegetable and animal substances ever become properly putrid and offensive.

1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter 350 Glad to appease their hunger on putrid horse-flesh.

1970 J. S. Huxley Memories (1972) x. 124 Arctic skuas pecking at the putrid remains of a whale carcass.

1989 O. V. Vijayan After the Hanging 134 Even if the meat was partially putrid, they would salt it, and dry it in the sun, the mild taint acting as spice.

2. Medicine. Designating or relating to diseases attributed to putrefaction (of the humours, body fluids, etc.) or accompanied by a putrid odour (of the body, breath, or excretions); gangrenous; necrotizing. Esp. in putrid fever n. at Compounds. Now historical.In quot. 1602 in figurative context.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [adjective] > alteration of tissue > of nature of necrosis

cankerya1398

cankerousc1425

putrid?1551

gangrenous1597

gangrened1762

necrobiotic1860

?1551 H. Wingfield Compend. or Shorte Treat. iv. sig. Cii And verely if naturall moysture be mingled with watry and thyn bloud, it sone receyueth putrefaction, which is oft cause & occasion of feuers & agues called putride.

1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge i. iv. sig. B4^v Yon putred vlcer of my roiall bloode.

1655 I. Walton Compl. Angler (ed. 2) i. 28 'Tis observed by the most learned Physicians, that the casting off of Lent and other fish-dayes,..hath doubtless been the chief cause of those many putride, shaking, intermitting Agues unto which this Nation of ours is now more subject.

1780 J. Wall Med. Tracts 59 I have had frequent Opportunities of observing the good Effects of that Medicine, not only in the Small Pox, but in many other putrid and petechial Fevers.

1790 W. Fordyce A Let. conc. Muriatic Acid 1 The striking effects produced by the spirit of sea-salt in all our putrid diseases..I mean the Eruptive fevers.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 190 The heavier, severer, or putrid typhus chiefly differs from the mild in the violence and rapidity of its march.

1876 J. Van Duyn & E. C. Seguin tr. E. L. Wagner Man. Gen. Pathol. 599 Saprogenic or putrid infection.

1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 351 Symptoms which are called typhoid or putrid, and which are indicative of septic infection of the whole body.

1984 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 90 675 Up to the early 20th century..women were victimized and trapped by..numerous pregnancies, barbarous birthing methods, and putrid diseases.

3. Characteristic or of the nature of putrefaction; tainted with the products of putrefaction, foul. Formerly also: †putrefactive (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > corruption or putridness > [adjective]

purulent?a1425

carrionc1522

carrionly1567

corruptible1584

putrilaginous1598

putrid1610

putrefactive1646

the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > rotten or putrefied > relating to putrefaction

corruptible1584

putrid1610

putrefactive1646

1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God x. xi. 377 Whole heauen (perforce) shall see thy putred hew.

1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xviii. 284 From her there yet proceeds vnwholsome putrid air.

c1750 W. Shenstone Elegies xviii. 24 Avoid the putrid moisture of the mead.

1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab iv. 49 Their bones Bleaching unburied in the putrid blast.

1901 M. Foster Lect. Hist. Physiol. 218 Since then gastric juice was not acid, solution of food by its means could not be of the nature of acetous fermentation any more than it was of the nature of vinous or putrid fermentation.

1989 Lancet 1 Apr. 741/1 Short-chain aliphatic esters and acids are the ‘stinkers’ and ‘quakers’ that give a putrid smell to defective beans.

2003 A. Bromfield tr. B. Akunin Winter Queen (2004) xi. 132 The Thames ladens the air with damp, the rubbish tips adding the scent of putrid decay.

4. figurative. Corrupt, decadent; rotten; loathsome, unpleasant. Also (colloquial) as a general term of disparagement: contemptible; dreadful, useless.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > foulness or filth > [adjective]

blackOE

rotea1382

lousyc1386

unwashed?a1390

fulsomec1390

filthy?c1400

rankc1400

leprousa1425

sicka1425

miry1532

shitten?1545

murrain1575

obscene1597

vicious1597

ketty1607

putrid1628

putredinous1641

foede1657

fulsamic1694

carrion1826

foul1842

shitty1879

scabrous1880

scummy1932

pukey1933

shitting1950

gungy1962

grungy1965

shithouse1966

grot1967

bogging1973

the mind > goodness and badness > state of being accursed > [adjective] > as everyday imprecation

stinking?c1225

misbegetc1325

banned1340

cursefula1382

wariablea1382

cursedc1386

biccheda1400

maledighta1400

vilea1400

accursedc1400

whoresona1450

remauldit?1473

execrable1490

infamous1490

unbicheda1500

jolly1534

bloodyc1540

mangy?1548

pagan1550

damned1563

misbegotten1571

putid1580

desperate1581

excremental1591

inexecrable?1594

sacred1594

putrid1628

sad1664

blasted1682

plagued1728

damnation1757

infernal1764

damn1775

pesky1775

deuced1782

shocking1798

blessed1806

darned1815

dinged1821

anointed1823

goldarn1830

darn1835

cussed1837

blamed1840

unholy1842

verdomde1850

bleeding1858

ghastly1860

goddam1861

blankety1872

blame1876

bastard1877

God-awful1877

dashed1881

sodding1881

bally1885

ungodly1887

blazing1888

dee1889

motherfucking1890

blistering1900

plurry1900

Christly1910

blinking1914

blethering1915

blighted1915

blighting1916

soddish1922

somethinged1922

effing1929

Jesus1929

dagnab1934

bastarding1944

Christless1947

mother-loving1948

mothering1951

pussyclaat1957

mother-grabbing1959

pigging1970

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > corruption or putridness > [adjective] > causing corruption or putridness

putrefactive?a1425

rotting?c1425

putrefying1565

putrid1628

putrefactory1650

putrefacient1849

the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > rotten or putrefied > causing rot or putrefaction

putrefactive?a1425

rotting?c1425

putrefying1565

corruptive1609

putrid1628

putrefactory1650

putrefacient1849

1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xii. 33 The sedulous Bee..working that to honey which the putri'd Spider would conuert to poyson.

1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xxvii. 213 Teaching to his Son all those putrid and pernicious documents both of State and of Religion.

1746 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Satires ii. vii. 29 Thou tedious varlet, whither tends This putrid stuff [L. haec tam putida]?

1766 C. O'Conor Diss. Hist. Scotl. 64 Quoting and ridiculing also, Some putrid Lines which he ascribes to Irish Bards.

1822 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 5 Jan. 1/4 There the extravagancies of guilty desire rush over honour and happiness and humanity to enjoyment—what a putrid picture.

1893 Scotsman 28 June 6 In respect to electoral morality Pontefract is putrid.

1898 Windsor Mag. Dec. 40/1 You're an ass—a putrid ass.

1931 D. L. Sayers Five Red Herrings iv. 45 Some putrid fool sliced a ball..and got me slap-bang in the eye.

1998 R. Curtis et al. Blackadder: Whole Damn Dynasty p. xii Soon it was time for the Dark ages, a terrible time of darkness and filth and vile, putrid ignorance into which the Baldricks blended perfectly.

2005 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 16 Oct. (Sport section) 4 Eriksson would like to explain why England were so putrid against Denmark, Wales and Northern Ireland.

†5. Of soil: loose, crumbling, friable. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > soil qualities > [adjective] > friable

lightc1400

resolute?1440

mouldery1600

murly1600

murling1610

chessom1626

open1647

putrid1656

overlight1707

shattery1728

well-broke1796

1656 A. Cowley Davideis iv. 137 in Poems Here with sharp neighs the warlike Horses sound; And with proud prancings beat the putrid ground [L. putrem..quatit ungula campum].

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 79 Fat crumbling Earth [L. putris..glaeba] is fitter for the Plough, Putrid and loose above, and black below.

1780 A. Young Tour Ireland (1887) 161 A mellow, putrid, friable loam.

1792 G. Crabbe Let. 1 Oct. in Sel. Lett. & Jrnls. (1985) i. 51 Give me a wild..Fen..with quaking Boggy Ground and trembling Hillocke in a putrid Soil.

Compounds

putrid fever n. [after post-classical Latin febris putrida (13th cent. in a British source); compare Middle French, French fièvre putride (1314 in Old French)] now historical (originally) any fever deemed to be caused by putrefaction or accompanied by a putrid odour; (in later use) spec. typhus.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > typhus or typhoid

putrid fever1597

pestilential fever1617

tabardillo1624

synochus1625

Hungaric fever1661

typhus1664

military fever1736

jail distemper1745

hospital fever1750

jail-fever1754

ship-fever1758

typhus fever1780

typhoid fever1789

gastric fever1802

dothinenteritis1826

enteric fever1833

typhoid1837

pythogenic fever1858

thanatotyphus1860

typh fever1861

enteric1872

famine-fever1876

Red River fever1878

laryngo-typhus1888

laryngo-typhoid1896

typh fever1900

paratyphoid1904

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 89 Somtyme it comeþ of an oþir euel, as of Effumera oþir feuer putrida [L. ex effimera, vel ex putrida] þat comeþ & gooþ.]

1597 P. Lowe Whole Course Chirurg. v. x. sig. N3 The cause is a sharpe, biting humor which commeth from the head & stomacke, as chaunceth in putride feuers.

1651 tr. J. A. Comenius Nat. Philos. Reformed 252 Putrid feavers are most usuall, but with very much difference: for when the humours putrifie within their vessels, (or workhouses) especially near the heart, (in the liver or the gall,) the spirit rises against them, and kindles them: and ceases not to assault them.

1774 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1772 305 Putrid fever, the epidemic of the coasts, originating from unwholsome food.

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 354 Previous to the time of de Sauvages typhus was known as ‘Pestilential’ or ‘Putrid Fever’.

1983 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 49 386 Fearful of an epidemic of putrid fever, the convention approved the measures.

putrid sore throat n. now historical severe (esp. bacterial or gangrenous) pharyngitis; spec. streptococcal pharyngitis or diphtheria.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of throat > [noun] > disorders of pharynx

putrid sore throat1754

pharyngitis1826

pharyngocele1842

rhinopharyngitis1878

pressure pouch1893

pseudodiphtheria1894

1754 R. Brookes Gen. Pract. Physic (ed. 2) I. 231 Of the Malignant Quinsey, or putrid Sore Throat.

1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians II. lvii. 221 An alarming attack of the quinsey or putrid sore throat.

1996 S. Mitchell Daily Life in Victorian Eng. ix. 194 Diphtheria (sometimes called..‘putrid sore throat’) killed between 15 and 25 percent of the children who caught it.

Derivatives

ˈputridly adv. in a putrid manner.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > corruption or putridness > [adverb]

carrionly1564

putridlya1681

the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adverb] > in putrid manner

putridlya1681

a1681 J. Pordage Theologia Mystica (1683) 21 Not barely wounded, bruised and putridly sore, but mortaly sick.

1741 P. Shaw tr. H. Boerhaave New Method Chem. (ed. 2) II. 35 When such a fixed alcali is mixt and agitated with the juices of the body..making their saline part alcaline,..and putridly fœtid instead of inodorous.

1886 J. M. Duncan Clin. Lect. Dis. Women (ed. 3) viii. 48 A putridly decomposing, bit of decidua, or of placental tissue.

1994 Register (Orange County) (Nexis) 1 Dec. e01 Their skin was white with scabies, their hair matted with lice; they smelt putridly overripe.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	putrid
释义	putridadj. Brit. /ˈpjuːtrɪd/, U.S. /ˈpjutrɪd/ Forms: Middle English–1500s putryd, late Middle English putrede, late Middle English–1600s putride, late Middle English– putred (now nonstandard), late Middle English– putrid, 1600s putri'd. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French putride; Latin putridus. Etymology: < Middle French putride (of a fever) caused by putrefaction (1314 in Old French in fievre putride : see putrid fever n. at Compounds), in a state of putrefaction, foul (16th cent. in Paré; French putride ) and its etymon classical Latin putridus rotten, decaying, foul, purulent, diseased, (of soil) crumbly < putrēre to rot ( < puter (also putris ) rotten < an extended form of the same Indo-European base as pūs purulent matter: see foul adj.) + -idus -id suffix¹.In sense 5 originally rendering classical Latin putris in Virgil. Compare the following slightly earlier example (perhaps in sense ‘overripe’), although it is unclear whether this is to be interpreted as Anglo-Norman or Middle English:1420–1 in N. S. B. Gras Early Eng. Customs Syst. (1918) 495 De Philippo Albert pro..xxi balis dates putrid, pr. £ xxviii. In form putri'd apparently reinterpreted as past participle (see -ed suffix¹). 1. In a state of decomposition; putrefied, rotten. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > rotten or putrefied forrottedc897 foulOE rotted?c1225 rottena1250 corruptc1380 enraged1398 putrefieda1413 purulent?a1425 putrid?a1425 ranka1425 rottenly1435 corrupped1533 corruptious1559 attainted1573 rot1573 putrefacted1574 baggage1576 tainted1577 pourryc1580 corruptive1593 putrilaginous1598 putrefactious1609 taint1620 putid1660 rottenish1691 septic1746 corrupted1807 mullocky1839 rotty1872 seething1875 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > corruption or putridness > [adjective] > corrupt or putrid rottingeOE foulOE rotted?c1225 rottena1250 corruptc1380 putrefieda1413 putrid?a1425 ranka1425 rottenly1435 pourryc1450 moskin1531 corrupped1533 corrupting1567 attainted1573 rot1573 putrefacted1574 baggage1576 tainted1577 pury1602 putrefactious1609 putrefactive1610 taint1620 putrescent1624 festerous1628 putid1660 scandalous1676 rottenish1691 putrefying1746–7 septic1746 corrupted1807 decomposing1833 decomposed1846 seething1875 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 75^v I say þe signez ar greuousnes & heuynez of þe sidez biside þe false costez & putride [?c1425 Paris roten; L. putridum] spotelle. c1425 tr. J. Arderne Treat. Fistula (Sloane 6) (1910) 34 (MED) At morne..þe emplastre remoued, þer appered aboue ȝe emplastre ful putrid quitour in superflue quantite. 1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie i. Proem. sig. B5^v Quake guzzell dogs, that liue on putred slime, Skud from the lashes of my yerking rime. 1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. iv. 28 [He] made innumerable trials with the putrid Flesh of all sorts of Beasts and Fowls. 1750 tr. C. Leonardus Mirror of Stones 83 Coral cleanses putrid sores. 1777 J. Priestley Matter & Spirit (1782) I. x. 130 Only vegetable and animal substances ever become properly putrid and offensive. 1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter 350 Glad to appease their hunger on putrid horse-flesh. 1970 J. S. Huxley Memories (1972) x. 124 Arctic skuas pecking at the putrid remains of a whale carcass. 1989 O. V. Vijayan After the Hanging 134 Even if the meat was partially putrid, they would salt it, and dry it in the sun, the mild taint acting as spice. 2. Medicine. Designating or relating to diseases attributed to putrefaction (of the humours, body fluids, etc.) or accompanied by a putrid odour (of the body, breath, or excretions); gangrenous; necrotizing. Esp. in putrid fever n. at Compounds. Now historical.In quot. 1602 in figurative context. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [adjective] > alteration of tissue > of nature of necrosis cankerya1398 cankerousc1425 putrid?1551 gangrenous1597 gangrened1762 necrobiotic1860 ?1551 H. Wingfield Compend. or Shorte Treat. iv. sig. Cii And verely if naturall moysture be mingled with watry and thyn bloud, it sone receyueth putrefaction, which is oft cause & occasion of feuers & agues called putride. 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge i. iv. sig. B4^v Yon putred vlcer of my roiall bloode. 1655 I. Walton Compl. Angler (ed. 2) i. 28 'Tis observed by the most learned Physicians, that the casting off of Lent and other fish-dayes,..hath doubtless been the chief cause of those many putride, shaking, intermitting Agues unto which this Nation of ours is now more subject. 1780 J. Wall Med. Tracts 59 I have had frequent Opportunities of observing the good Effects of that Medicine, not only in the Small Pox, but in many other putrid and petechial Fevers. 1790 W. Fordyce A Let. conc. Muriatic Acid 1 The striking effects produced by the spirit of sea-salt in all our putrid diseases..I mean the Eruptive fevers. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 190 The heavier, severer, or putrid typhus chiefly differs from the mild in the violence and rapidity of its march. 1876 J. Van Duyn & E. C. Seguin tr. E. L. Wagner Man. Gen. Pathol. 599 Saprogenic or putrid infection. 1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 351 Symptoms which are called typhoid or putrid, and which are indicative of septic infection of the whole body. 1984 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 90 675 Up to the early 20th century..women were victimized and trapped by..numerous pregnancies, barbarous birthing methods, and putrid diseases. 3. Characteristic or of the nature of putrefaction; tainted with the products of putrefaction, foul. Formerly also: †putrefactive (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > corruption or putridness > [adjective] purulent?a1425 carrionc1522 carrionly1567 corruptible1584 putrilaginous1598 putrid1610 putrefactive1646 the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > rotten or putrefied > relating to putrefaction corruptible1584 putrid1610 putrefactive1646 1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God x. xi. 377 Whole heauen (perforce) shall see thy putred hew. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xviii. 284 From her there yet proceeds vnwholsome putrid air. c1750 W. Shenstone Elegies xviii. 24 Avoid the putrid moisture of the mead. 1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab iv. 49 Their bones Bleaching unburied in the putrid blast. 1901 M. Foster Lect. Hist. Physiol. 218 Since then gastric juice was not acid, solution of food by its means could not be of the nature of acetous fermentation any more than it was of the nature of vinous or putrid fermentation. 1989 Lancet 1 Apr. 741/1 Short-chain aliphatic esters and acids are the ‘stinkers’ and ‘quakers’ that give a putrid smell to defective beans. 2003 A. Bromfield tr. B. Akunin Winter Queen (2004) xi. 132 The Thames ladens the air with damp, the rubbish tips adding the scent of putrid decay. 4. figurative. Corrupt, decadent; rotten; loathsome, unpleasant. Also (colloquial) as a general term of disparagement: contemptible; dreadful, useless. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > foulness or filth > [adjective] blackOE rotea1382 lousyc1386 unwashed?a1390 fulsomec1390 filthy?c1400 rankc1400 leprousa1425 sicka1425 miry1532 shitten?1545 murrain1575 obscene1597 vicious1597 ketty1607 putrid1628 putredinous1641 foede1657 fulsamic1694 carrion1826 foul1842 shitty1879 scabrous1880 scummy1932 pukey1933 shitting1950 gungy1962 grungy1965 shithouse1966 grot1967 bogging1973 the mind > goodness and badness > state of being accursed > [adjective] > as everyday imprecation stinking?c1225 misbegetc1325 banned1340 cursefula1382 wariablea1382 cursedc1386 biccheda1400 maledighta1400 vilea1400 accursedc1400 whoresona1450 remauldit?1473 execrable1490 infamous1490 unbicheda1500 jolly1534 bloodyc1540 mangy?1548 pagan1550 damned1563 misbegotten1571 putid1580 desperate1581 excremental1591 inexecrable?1594 sacred1594 putrid1628 sad1664 blasted1682 plagued1728 damnation1757 infernal1764 damn1775 pesky1775 deuced1782 shocking1798 blessed1806 darned1815 dinged1821 anointed1823 goldarn1830 darn1835 cussed1837 blamed1840 unholy1842 verdomde1850 bleeding1858 ghastly1860 goddam1861 blankety1872 blame1876 bastard1877 God-awful1877 dashed1881 sodding1881 bally1885 ungodly1887 blazing1888 dee1889 motherfucking1890 blistering1900 plurry1900 Christly1910 blinking1914 blethering1915 blighted1915 blighting1916 soddish1922 somethinged1922 effing1929 Jesus1929 dagnab1934 bastarding1944 Christless1947 mother-loving1948 mothering1951 pussyclaat1957 mother-grabbing1959 pigging1970 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > corruption or putridness > [adjective] > causing corruption or putridness putrefactive?a1425 rotting?c1425 putrefying1565 putrid1628 putrefactory1650 putrefacient1849 the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > rotten or putrefied > causing rot or putrefaction putrefactive?a1425 rotting?c1425 putrefying1565 corruptive1609 putrid1628 putrefactory1650 putrefacient1849 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xii. 33 The sedulous Bee..working that to honey which the putri'd Spider would conuert to poyson. 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xxvii. 213 Teaching to his Son all those putrid and pernicious documents both of State and of Religion. 1746 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Satires ii. vii. 29 Thou tedious varlet, whither tends This putrid stuff [L. haec tam putida]? 1766 C. O'Conor Diss. Hist. Scotl. 64 Quoting and ridiculing also, Some putrid Lines which he ascribes to Irish Bards. 1822 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 5 Jan. 1/4 There the extravagancies of guilty desire rush over honour and happiness and humanity to enjoyment—what a putrid picture. 1893 Scotsman 28 June 6 In respect to electoral morality Pontefract is putrid. 1898 Windsor Mag. Dec. 40/1 You're an ass—a putrid ass. 1931 D. L. Sayers Five Red Herrings iv. 45 Some putrid fool sliced a ball..and got me slap-bang in the eye. 1998 R. Curtis et al. Blackadder: Whole Damn Dynasty p. xii Soon it was time for the Dark ages, a terrible time of darkness and filth and vile, putrid ignorance into which the Baldricks blended perfectly. 2005 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 16 Oct. (Sport section) 4 Eriksson would like to explain why England were so putrid against Denmark, Wales and Northern Ireland. †5. Of soil: loose, crumbling, friable. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > soil qualities > [adjective] > friable lightc1400 resolute?1440 mouldery1600 murly1600 murling1610 chessom1626 open1647 putrid1656 overlight1707 shattery1728 well-broke1796 1656 A. Cowley Davideis iv. 137 in Poems Here with sharp neighs the warlike Horses sound; And with proud prancings beat the putrid ground [L. putrem..quatit ungula campum]. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 79 Fat crumbling Earth [L. putris..glaeba] is fitter for the Plough, Putrid and loose above, and black below. View more context for this quotation 1780 A. Young Tour Ireland (1887) 161 A mellow, putrid, friable loam. 1792 G. Crabbe Let. 1 Oct. in Sel. Lett. & Jrnls. (1985) i. 51 Give me a wild..Fen..with quaking Boggy Ground and trembling Hillocke in a putrid Soil. Compounds putrid fever n. [after post-classical Latin febris putrida (13th cent. in a British source); compare Middle French, French fièvre putride (1314 in Old French)] now historical (originally) any fever deemed to be caused by putrefaction or accompanied by a putrid odour; (in later use) spec. typhus. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > typhus or typhoid putrid fever1597 pestilential fever1617 tabardillo1624 synochus1625 Hungaric fever1661 typhus1664 military fever1736 jail distemper1745 hospital fever1750 jail-fever1754 ship-fever1758 typhus fever1780 typhoid fever1789 gastric fever1802 dothinenteritis1826 enteric fever1833 typhoid1837 pythogenic fever1858 thanatotyphus1860 typh fever1861 enteric1872 famine-fever1876 Red River fever1878 laryngo-typhus1888 laryngo-typhoid1896 typh fever1900 paratyphoid1904 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 89 Somtyme it comeþ of an oþir euel, as of Effumera oþir feuer putrida [L. ex effimera, vel ex putrida] þat comeþ & gooþ.] 1597 P. Lowe Whole Course Chirurg. v. x. sig. N3 The cause is a sharpe, biting humor which commeth from the head & stomacke, as chaunceth in putride feuers. 1651 tr. J. A. Comenius Nat. Philos. Reformed 252 Putrid feavers are most usuall, but with very much difference: for when the humours putrifie within their vessels, (or workhouses) especially near the heart, (in the liver or the gall,) the spirit rises against them, and kindles them: and ceases not to assault them. 1774 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1772 305 Putrid fever, the epidemic of the coasts, originating from unwholsome food. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 354 Previous to the time of de Sauvages typhus was known as ‘Pestilential’ or ‘Putrid Fever’. 1983 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 49 386 Fearful of an epidemic of putrid fever, the convention approved the measures. putrid sore throat n. now historical severe (esp. bacterial or gangrenous) pharyngitis; spec. streptococcal pharyngitis or diphtheria. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of throat > [noun] > disorders of pharynx putrid sore throat1754 pharyngitis1826 pharyngocele1842 rhinopharyngitis1878 pressure pouch1893 pseudodiphtheria1894 1754 R. Brookes Gen. Pract. Physic (ed. 2) I. 231 Of the Malignant Quinsey, or putrid Sore Throat. 1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians II. lvii. 221 An alarming attack of the quinsey or putrid sore throat. 1996 S. Mitchell Daily Life in Victorian Eng. ix. 194 Diphtheria (sometimes called..‘putrid sore throat’) killed between 15 and 25 percent of the children who caught it. Derivatives ˈputridly adv. in a putrid manner. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > corruption or putridness > [adverb] carrionly1564 putridlya1681 the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adverb] > in putrid manner putridlya1681 a1681 J. Pordage Theologia Mystica (1683) 21 Not barely wounded, bruised and putridly sore, but mortaly sick. 1741 P. Shaw tr. H. Boerhaave New Method Chem. (ed. 2) II. 35 When such a fixed alcali is mixt and agitated with the juices of the body..making their saline part alcaline,..and putridly fœtid instead of inodorous. 1886 J. M. Duncan Clin. Lect. Dis. Women (ed. 3) viii. 48 A putridly decomposing, bit of decidua, or of placental tissue. 1994 Register (Orange County) (Nexis) 1 Dec. e01 Their skin was white with scabies, their hair matted with lice; they smelt putridly overripe. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.?a1425
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