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measled

[ mee-zuhld ]

adjective

  1. (of swine or other livestock) affected with measles.


measled

/ ˈ³¾¾±Ë³úÉ™±ô»å /

adjective

  1. (of cattle, sheep, or pigs) infested with tapeworm larvae; measly
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Origin of measled1

First recorded in 1350–1400, measled is from the Middle English word meseled. See measles, -ed 3
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Singer and songwriter Kelly Zutrau and drummer and keyboard player Joe Valle both worked variations on the sad — or measled — clown.

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Tracatr�n, a new coinage onomatopoetically suggesting machinelike response, refers to a person who carries out orders implacably; parquear la tinosa means "to park the buzzard," or pass the buck; saram-pionado, or "measled," describes someone who shows a rash of too much Marxist-Leninist theory.

Distempered or scurvied hogs are still said to be measled.

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He told them in prose and verse—prose which was measled with 'Oh's,' and 'Alas's,' and full of great windblown phrases of bombast, like inflated bladders, each with one little parched pea of meaning to rattle inside it The verse was mainly such as might have been written by a moderately illiterate absurd old man who had found life a vanity, and had deserved his discovery.

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I hate mumped and measled lovers.

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