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Rancid

adjective

(used of decomposing oils or fats) having a rank smell or taste usually due to a chemical change or decomposition. "Rancid bacon"

Smelling of fermentation or staleness. Synonym: sour.

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"Rancid" Quotes from Famous Books

... isn't!" she said, the flicker of amusement still on her lips. "A man wouldn't have sense enough to know that smoking isn't worth waking up with your mouth full of rancid fur." ...

— The Bent Twig • Dorothy Canfield

... purified in the following manner: Melt and skim it, then put into it a piece of well-toasted bread; in a few minutes the butter will lose its offensive taste and smell; the bread will absorb it all. Slices of potato fried in rancid lard will in a great ...

— The American Frugal Housewife • Lydia M. Child

... Bengal, "as secure as an elephant bound with baobab rope." The pulp of the fruit is slightly acid, and the juice expressed from it is valued as a specific in putrid and pestilential fevers. The ashes of the fruit and bark, boiled in rancid palm oil, make ...

— Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture • William Saunders

... and hermetically sealed, could be opened easily. Accordingly, I went at once to examine the jars. A little—a very little of the oil still remained, but it had grown thick in the two and a half centuries in which the jars had been open. Still, it was not rancid; and on examining it I found it was cedar oil, and that it still exhaled something of its original aroma. This gave me the idea that it was to be used to fill the lamps. Whoever had placed the oil in the jars, and the jars in the sarcophagus, ...

— The Jewel of Seven Stars • Bram Stoker

... allowed. "There would be a fortune for the novelist who could work a type of innocence for all it was worth. Here's Acton always dealing with the most rancid flirtatiousness, and missing the sweetness and beauty of a girlhood which does the cheekiest things without knowing what it's about, and fetches down its game whenever it shuts its eyes and fires at nothing. But I don't see how all this touches the point that Rulledge makes, ...

— Quaint Courtships • Howells & Alden, Editors

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