Definitions
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- adjective Not
fattened .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of market animals) not optimal for marketing
Etymologies
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Examples
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He would couple this with the sale of unfattened weaners to feedlots in those neighbouring countries.
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Numberless cattle were being driven to the loading pens for shipment to market, weeks ahead of their day of doom, unfattened, unfit.
Trail's End George W. Ogden
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Entering the gate he found that three young unfattened pigs had escaped from their sty by leaping clean over the top, and that she was endeavouring unassisted to drive them in through the door which she had set open.
Jude the Obscure 1896
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Entering the gate he found that three young unfattened pigs had escaped from their sty by leaping clean over the top, and that she was endeavouring unassisted to drive them in through the door which she had set open.
Jude the Obscure 1894
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