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6 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
Meaning
adjective (used of decomposing oils or fats) having a rank smell or taste usually due to a chemical change or decomposition
adjective smelling of fermentation or staleness
originEtymology tree Latin ranceō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin ranciduslbor. English rancid Learned borrowing from Latin rancidus (“stinking, rank, rancid, offensive”).
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