Word of the Day: WHEY-BLOODED


ETYMOLOGY
from whey  + blooded


EXAMPLE
“…Beantosser
Here here, a pox o’ these full mouth’d Fox hounds.

Hectorio
They hunt devilish hard, I’me affrai’d they’l earth us.

Stephania
Give Hectorio a dram of the Bottle, the Whey-Blooded Rogue looks as if his heart were melted into his Breeches…”

From: The Mock-Tempest, or, The Enchanted Castle
By Thomas Duffett, 1675

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