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Uneatable. World English Historical Dictionary

Uneatable. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1926, rev. 2022. Uneatable a. (UN-1 7 b.)

1 1611.  Cotgr., Immangeable, vneatable, vnfit to be fed on.

2 1775.  Adair, Amer. Ind., 16. The … Indians … formerly reckoned it [sc. opossum] as … uneatable an animal, as a hog.

3 1798.  W. Blair, Soldier’s Friend, 16. Biscuits would … be preferable: a loaf becomes mouldy and uneatable in a few days.

4 1861.  Musgrave, By-roads, 12. A dreary breadth of sand hills, dotted with tufts of uneatable herbage and rank weeds.

5 1876.  Mrs. Whitney, Sights & Ins., xviii. We got an uneatable dinner (having blundered upon a wrong hotel).

6   Hence Uneatableness.

7 1859.  Trans. Entom. Soc., I. 21. Thus showing that the spines were not the cause of the uneatableness of the larvæ.

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