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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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  • Fed on offal or scraps from the kitchen (according to Nares, fed, or fattened, in the rump; fat-bottomed).

    July 27, 2010

  • 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

  • Cf. electric pig.

    January 5, 2012