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Corn-fed   /kɔrn-fɛd/   Listen
Corn-fed

adjective
1.
Fed on corn.
2.
Strong and healthy but not sophisticated.





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"Corn-fed" Quotes from Famous Books



... considerable time in your town at present, as I'm overseeing the wintering of something like a hundred saddle horses and two hundred and fifty of our thoroughbred bulls. We worked our saddle stock so late last fall, that on my advice the superintendent sent them into the State to be corn-fed for the winter. The bulls were too valuable to be risked on the range. We had over fifty stolen last season, that cost us over three hundred dollars a head. I had a letter this morning from our superintendent, asking me to unite with what seems to be a general movement to suppress ...
— Cattle Brands - A Collection of Western Camp-fire Stories • Andy Adams
... mallard from a merganser has another side: gourmets prefer a corn-fed mallard to ...
— Ducks at a Distance - A Waterfowl Identification Guide • Robert W. Hines


Words linked to "Corn-fed" :   provincial, nourished


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