rottened
English
Etymology
Adjective
rottened (comparative more rottened, superlative most rottened)
- (nonstandard) Rotten.
- 2006, Mignon C. Reynolds, “To Believe and to See”, in Life as Bonkers: A Canine Adventure of Discovery, Friendship, Interplanetary Metaphysics, and Very Bad Odors, 2nd edition, Portland, Ore.: Max Limited, →ISBN, page 40:
- First I rolled in rottened peaches…yeah, that’s what I did…and then I went to Summerland and rolled in the seaslime grass.
- 2012 May, K. Venkataraman, Ch. Satyanarayana, “Difficulties in Coral Identification”, in Coral Identification Manual, Kolkata: Zoological Survey of India, →ISBN, page 32:
- Specimen tied with waterproof label should be kept in fresh water until it gets rottened (1-5 days). Clean the rottened specimen with a strong jet of freshwater.
- 2012 November 11, Gordon Emmerson, “A Thousand Years”, in Healthy Parts, Happy Self: 3 Steps to Like Yourself, →ISBN, unit 1 (How things are), chapter 2 (Becoming Free), page 14:
- And even if reality is wed with plans inside my neighbor’s head, the ruins will, by then, be rottened.
- 2014, Ian Stephen, “Pike”, in A Book of Death and Fish, Glasgow: Saraband, →ISBN, book 1 (Migrations), page 49:
- Instead, I buried them to make maggots. I’d read about this in one of the angling books, from the main library. When I dug up the rottened and softened flesh, some weeks later, it had worked. The skulls and teeth and shrunken eyes were recognisable.
- 2017, Stephen King, Owen King, chapter 3, in Sleeping Beauties: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, section 6, page 73:
- She had pressed a finger against his wrist and observed, “You are the color of rottened, Frank. Like under my poppa’s nails has.”