off one's feed
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.20 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
prep_phrase
Rather unwell, especially with a reduced or altered appetite; somewhat disoriented or disconcerted.
Example Sentences
- ""Nothing serious," the veterinarian added. "He was just off his feed a trifle.""
- ""My dairy farmers tell me that because of the heat the cows are just off their feed.""
- "“He wos took wery bad one arternoon, arter having been off his feed, and wery shaky on his legs for some veeks.”"
- "I asked some questions about Jack Benton, and one of the men told me that he was off his feed, and hardly ate anything, and swallowed all the coffee he could lay his hands on, and had used up all his own tobacco and had begun on what his brother had left."
- "‘Something is the matter with Psmith. He is off his feed. He should try Blenkinsop's Balm for the Bilious.’"
- "The heavyweight champion of the world was off his feed. . . . Rocky, ordinarily a first-rate trencherman, was pushing away from the breakfast table after downing only two eggs and a pair of lamb chops."