Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Half-eaten.

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  • adjective rare Half-eaten.
  • noun A member of the warrior caste of the Elema of Papua New Guinea.

Etymologies

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From the Latin sēmēsus; from sēm- ("half-") + ēsus ("eaten"), the perfect passive participle of edō ("I eat").

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Examples

  • "No; they're sons of gyps and that kind of thing, who feed on the semese fragments of the high table."

    Julian Home 1867

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  • half-eaten. OED

    June 8, 2008