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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Fed on beans.

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Examples

  • The women soldier [sic], playing the part of an old woman, said bean-fed troops including her husband had amazing strength on the battle field.

    The Great Tea-Bait James Taranto 2010

  • The two talk about how bean-fed North Korean soldiers were able to fight off U.S. imperialist troops during the Korean War.

    The Great Tea-Bait James Taranto 2010

  • He stopped in front of a picture-postcard shop that was hung from top to bottom of its window with strings of actresses 'photographs, and stood there with a jaunty rising and falling of the heels, bestowing an exaggerated attention on the glossy black and white patterns that indicated the glittering facades of these charmers' smiles, the milky smoothness of their bean-fed femininity.

    The Judge Rebecca West 1937

  • Sahib sat in the midst of three silver wheels that made no creaking, and drave them with his legs, prancing like a bean-fed horse -- thus.

    Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • He was in the midst of a description of Mrs. Orlando Van Sueindell's last dinner-party, which he had unfortunately missed, when his browns, less peaceably disposed than most of the lazy bean-fed cattle one sees on the Newport avenue, took it into their heads that it would be a joyous thing to canter down a steep place into the sea.

    Doctor Claudius, A True Story 1881

  • The two talk about how bean-fed North Korean soldiers were able to fight off U.S. imperialist troops during the Korean War.

    Reuters: Top News 2010

  • The women soldier, playing the part of an old woman, said bean-fed troops including her husband had amazing strength on the battle field.

    Reuters: Top News 2010

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