| 单词 | rancid |
| 释义 | rancid From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishFoodrancidran‧cid /ˈrænsɪd/ adjectiveDFoily or fatty food that is rancid smells or tastes unpleasant because it is no longer freshrancid butterExamples from the Corpusrancid• The oats looked firm and fresh, but were rancid.• His mouth felt like something rancid had curled up inside and he silently cursed the demon booze.• Woke up with a rancid headache.• The canals have more potential than ponds that often get rancid in the heat of summer.• I was frequently sick through being forced to drink rancid milk that had been left standing in the playground for hours.• Swanson knows his conspiracy theories, and his portrait of Dallas, mainly rancid, saves you the trip.• It was malodorous, peculiarly rancid, sulphurous.Origin rancid (1600-1700) Latin rancidus, from rancere “to have decayed, smell bad” |
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