overfedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

overfed (comparative more overfed, superlative most overfed)

1. Excessively fed; given too much to eat; having had too much to eat.
   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], OCLC 1042815524, part I, page 211:

     He allowed his ‘boy’—an overfed young negro from the coast—to treat the white men, under his very eyes, with provoking insolence.

   • a. 1911, David Graham Phillips, Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise‎^[1]:

     Was this stupid system, so cruel, so crushing, and producing at the top such absurd results as flashy, insolent autos and silly palaces and overfed, overdressed women, and dogs in jeweled collars, and babies of wealth brought up by low menials—was this system really the best?