putid
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin putidus. Compare French putide. Compare putrid.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
putid (comparative more putid, superlative most putid)
- rotten; fetid; stinking; base; worthless
- 1651, Joseph Beaumont, Psyche:
- Memorials of their putid Rottenneſſe
- 1659, Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul:
- thy putid muse
References[edit]
- “putid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.