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from The Century Dictionary.
- Fed on offal or scraps from the kitchen (according to Nares, fed, or fattened, in the rump; fat-bottomed).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective A Shakespearean word of uncertain meaning. Perhaps “fattened in the rump, pampered.”
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frogapplause commented on the word rump-fed
Fed on offal or scraps from the kitchen (according to Nares, fed, or fattened, in the rump; fat-bottomed).
July 27, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word rump-fed
My mom would occasionally mutter something that sounded like "mucā audzis pa spundi barots." When I finally asked her what it meant, she told me that in the old days (in the old country) folks might keep a pig in barrel next to the kitchen door as a sort of living garbage disposal and that if a person was being uncouth, you'd say he or she was "raised in a barrel and fed through the hole in the side."
See bunghole.
July 27, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word rump-fed
Cf. electric pig.
January 5, 2012