Fattening
['fæt(ə)nɪŋ] or ['fætnɪŋ]
Definition
(adj.) subject to or used in the process of finishing or fattening up for slaughter; 'a fattening hog'; 'fattening pens' .
Checker: Rhonda--From WordNet
Examples
- Feeding and fattening countries, besides, must always be highly improved, whereas breeding countries are generally uncultivated. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- His wonderful enterprise, his wonderful wealth, his wonderful Bank, were the fattening food of the evening paper that night. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- All of our heroes are fattening now as we approach the second year. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The fattening of ortolans, birds of passage which arrive lean in the country, is said to be so in some parts of France. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Typist: Malcolm