Rancid

Definitions: Rancid

Rancid

Adjective

1. Used of decomposing oils or fats; "rancid butter"; "rancid bacon".

2. Smelling of fermentation or staleness.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "rancid" was first used: 1646. (references)

Etymology: Rancid \Ran"cid\, adjective. [Latin expression rancidus, from rancere to be rancid or rank.]. (Websters 1913)

Food & Agriculture

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Rancid

Uncleanness

Decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty; putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied; saprogenic, saprogenous; purulent, carious, peccant; fecal, feculent; stercoraceous, excrementitious; scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous; gory, bloody; rotting; Verb: rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese.

Crosswords: Rancid

I may be rancid butter but I'm on your side of the bread. (Inherit the Wind; writing credit: Jerome Lawrence; Robert E. Lee)

Do I look all rancid and clotted? (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; writing credit: Peter George; Stanley Kubrick)

Rancid Ransom (1962)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Rancid Little Christmas (Catdog) (reference)

• Rancid & Out Come the Wolves (reference)

• Rancid Aluminum (reference)

• Rancid Crabtree and the Demon Bat (reference)

• Souvenirs: Fresh and Rancid (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Rancid Aluminum (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "rancid": be rancid ♦ getting rancid ♦ go rancid. Additional references.

Ending with "rancid": non-rancid.

Albanian

i prishur (addle, addled, annulled, broken, corrupt, decayed, depraved, disconcerted, flyblown, godforsaken, haywire, high, perverted, putrid, rot, rotten, sour, spoilt, tainted, turned, unsound). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نتن (fetid, fetor, foetid, malodorous, mephitis, rotten, stagnant, stank, stink, stinky), ‏زنخ. (various references)

Bulgarian 

гранясал (rank), гранив. (various references)

Chinese 

饐 , 餿 (soured), 馊. (various references)

Czech

zatuchlý (dank, foul, stagnant, stale, stuffy), žluklý (rank). (various references)

Danish

harsk (butyric). (various references)

Dutch

ranzig, ransig, rans, garstig. (various references)

Esperanto

ranca. (various references)

Faeroese

tráur, heskin, herskin. (various references)

Farsi 

فاسد (Corrupt, Dissolute, Gamy, Immoral, Perverse, Putrid, Rake, Reechy, Reprobate, Rotten, Sedition, Sinister, Untoward, Vicious, Vile, Villainous), متعفن (Putrid, Smelly), نامطبوع (Hard, Nasty, Ungraceful, Ungracious, Unhandsome, Unpleasant), ترشیده (Frowzy, Overripe, Rank, Reechy), بوگرفته (High), بادخورده . (various references)

Finnish

eltaantunut (butyric). (various references)

French

rance (rank). (various references)

German

ranzig (butyric, off, rancidly, rank, strong). (various references)

Greek 

τάγγισμα (becoming rancid, butyric spoilage, malodorous fermentation, tendency to go rancid), ταγγόσ (rank), ταγγισμένος. (various references)

Hebrew 

מבאיש (fetid, malodorous, smelly, stinking), רקוב (decayed, putrid, rotten, septic). (various references)

Hungarian

avas (musty, rank, rusty). (various references)

Icelandic

þrár, þránaður. (various references)

Indonesian

anyir (rank). (various references)

Italian

rancido (rank). (various references)

Manx

breinn (blue, blue as film, foetid, foul, loathsome, malodorus, nasty, offensive, pestilential, putrid, rotten, smelly). (various references)

Pig Latin

ancidray.(various references)

Portuguese

rançoso (rank, stale), râncido, detestável (abhorrent, damned, detestable, hateful, invidious, loathing, lob, nasty, odious), com rancidez, a ranço. (various references)

Romanian

rânced (rank, stale). (various references)

Russian 

прогорклый (rank). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

užegao. (various references)

Spanish

rancio (fusty, musty, old world, stale, true blue). (various references)

Swedish

härsken. (various references)

Thai

(กลิ่นหรือรส) บู�". (various references)

Turkish

kokuşmuş (bad, fetid, foul, fusty, hard set, putrid, rank, rotten), kokmuş (addle, bad, fetid, flyblown, niffy, putrefacient, putrefactive, putrid, rank, rotten, smelly, stinky, tainted), iğrenç (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, cloying, crying, damn, damned, detestable, dirty, disgusting, distasteful, dread, dreadfull, execrable, filthy, foul, frightful, ghoulish, god-awful, grievous, hatable, hateable, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, infernal, loathsome, lousy, mangy, mawkish, nasty, nauseous, noisome, obnoxious, odious, offensive, putrid, rank, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, scummy, shocking, sick, sickening, sickly, slimy, squirmy, stinking, ugly, vile, villainous, yuck), ekşimiş (hard, sour, went bad), bozuk (addle, bad, broken, broken down, bum, damaged, dead, deranged, dirty, disappointed, dished, disordered, distorted, doric, embroiled, faulty, flyblown, foul, gone, hard set, haywire, heavy, hipshot, imperfect, in bad order, irregular, kaput, knackered, off, on the fritz, out of action, out of commission, out of gear, out of order, perverse, putrefacient, putrefactive, putrid, rotten, stale, touched, unsound, upset, vicious, wrong), acımış. (various references)

Ukranian 

згірклий (rank), протухлий. (various references)

Vietnamese 

trở mùi. (various references)

rancidus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "rancid": rancidities, rancidity, rancidly, rancidness, rancidnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Rancid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arnki, Branacci, racid, Ragnhild, rancic, rancidly, rancin, rancis, ranids, ranit, Ranjit, Ranjith, ranki, ransid, Raschid, recid, Rinchik, rincid, runaid, runcie. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: acrid, caird, cairn, canid, daric, dinar, drain, nadir, naric, nicad, ranid.

-2 letters: acid, airn, arid, cadi, caid, cain, card, carn, darn, narc, nard, raid, rain, rand, rani, rind.

-3 letters: aid, ain, air, and, ani, arc, cad, can, car, din, rad, ran, ria, rid, rin.

-4 letters: ad, ai, an, ar, id, in, na.

+1 letter: cairned, carding, iracund.

+2 letters: acaridan, acridine, arachnid, arcadian, arcading, braconid, cancroid, candider, carangid, cardigan, cardinal, cardings, cordwain, cradling, crannied, dicentra, draconic, fricando, hadronic, inarched, ironclad, radiance, radiancy, radicand, rancidly, riddance, sardonic, tornadic.

+3 letters: acaridans, according, accordion, acridines, acridness, androecia, arachnids, arachnoid, arcadians, arcadings, archfiend, ardencies, braconids, brocading, calendric, cancroids, carangids, carcinoid, cardigans, cardinals, carinated, carnified, chagrined, chancroid, circadian, clarioned, cnidarian, cordwains, coriander, corrading, crusading, curtained, dackering, declaring, diachrony, dicentras, dichondra, doctrinal, draconian, hindrance, holandric, increased, indicator, infarcted, infracted, ironclads, manicured, ordinance, radiances, radicands, rancidity, redacting, redaction, riddances, traducing.

+4 letters: accordions, achondrite, adrenergic, aldermanic, androecium, androgenic, antidromic, arachnoids, archfiends, brainchild, cadaverine, carbonized, carcinoids, cardinally, carotenoid, carotinoid, centigrade, chagrinned, chairmaned, chancroids, chandelier, cnidarians, coadmiring, confirmand, contradict, coordinate, cordwainer, corianders, corrigenda, credential, criminated, deaconries, decenaries, decorating, decoration, decreasing, deracinate, detracting, detraction, diachronic, dichondras, dicoumarin, dictionary, discarding, discarnate, discordant, discrepant, disgracing, dormancies, enchiridia, endarchies, endocardia, fornicated, fractioned, franchised, fricandeau, fricandoes, gramicidin, grandchild, grandniece, handicraft, hindrances, incarnated, incendiary, incurvated, indicators, indicatory, interacted, interfaced, interlaced, irradiance, mandarinic, mordancies, narcotized, noncardiac, nudibranch, ordinances, picarooned, placarding, radiancies, radicating, radiogenic, rancidness, reacceding, redactions, refinanced, scorpaenid, syndicator, undramatic, verdancies, vindicator.

+5 letters: abecedarian, accordingly, accrediting, achondrites, achondritic, acridnesses, aerodynamic, antiradical, apprenticed, ascertained, barricading, becowarding, branchiopod, cadaverines, calendaring, calendering, calendrical, candidature, cantharides, cantharidin, caparisoned, cardinalate, cardinality, cardiogenic, cardiotonic, carillonned, carotenoids, carotinoids, centralised, centralized, chairmanned, chancroidal, chandeliers, chandleries, chlorinated, confirmands, considerate, constrained, contradicts, coordinated, coordinates, coordinator, copyreading, cordialness, cordilleran, cordwainers, cordwainery, counterraid, credentials, crocodilian, cyanohydrin, cylindrical, decarbonize, declaration, decorations, deliverance, demarcating, demarcation, deprecating, deprecation, deracinated, deracinates, desecrating, desecration, determinacy, detractions, diachronies, dicoumarins, diffracting, diffraction, directional, discernable, discharging, discordance, discordancy, discrepancy, distracting, distraction, disturbance, doctrinaire, doctrinally, endocardial, endocardium, eradicating, eradication, forbiddance, fricandeaus, fricandeaux, gramicidins, grandnieces, grecianized, handicapper, handicrafts, icosahedron, incarnadine, incinerated, interspaced, irradiances, merchandise, merchandize, motorcading, nondramatic, nudibranchs, palindromic, predicament, predicating, predication, predynastic, prefinanced, radicalness, radiocarbon, radiolucent, rancidities, readdicting, reascending, recanalized, recordation, redactional, reductional, reeducating, reeducation, ropedancing, sardonicism, scabbarding, scorpaenids, secondaries, secondarily, syndicators, transcribed, transducing, trichomonad, tyrannicide, unclarified, uncurtained, underacting, underactive, unreclaimed, vindicators, vindicatory, woodcarving.

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