Definition of kidney fat in English:
kidney fat
noun
mass noun1Fat from around an animal's kidneys.
liver, kidney, and kidney fat were removed and weighed immediately after slaughter
Example sentencesExamples
- For variety, they rotated a few treats into the routine, including broiled kidneys with their own kidney fat.
- Values for yield grade, quality grade, and kidney fat were not different when the lambs were fed.
- We could not directly assess the condition of hind, for example, by using the kidney fat index, because such data were not recorded.
- The warm, disgusting beef kidney fat is reduced to clean beef suet.
- We tested these predictions by using data on the animal's mass, kidney fat reserves and fetal sex ratio.
- Liver, kidney, and kidney fat were removed and weighed immediately after slaughter.
- There's something you just don't see often enough nowadays: kidney fat.
- 1.1Australian (in traditional Aboriginal society) fat from around a human kidney, regarded as having talismanic power in ritual killing.
his boyhood friend was killed by an enemy, who tore out his kidney fat while he was still alive
Example sentencesExamples
- During the colonial period, it was believed that colonists and priests stole people's fat (particularly kidney fat) to make church bells or holy oil.
- The mother had to carry the body on her back till her husband procured the kidney fat of a strange blackfellow.
- Out of the kidney fat of the Aymara Indians, the bishop made holy oil.
- They raised the issue of a more serious and traditional belief, death through an enemy eating kidney fat.
- When the Australians kill an enemy in blood revenge, they always abstract the kidney fat.
verbkidney-fats, kidney-fatted, kidney-fatting
Australian with object (in traditional Aboriginal society) remove the kidney fat from (a person) for ritual reasons.
they had kidney-fatted him and left him lingering in death
Example sentencesExamples
- Anyone they did that to couldn't move any further and if they wanted to kidney-fat them, they could then.
- If one of their number dies or becomes seriously ill they still say: 'Someone might have kidney-fatted him'.
- A clever-man kidney-fatted him.