Compound Forms:
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| bottle-fed adj | (baby: given milk by bottle) | alimentado con biberón loc adj |
breastfed,
breast-fed adj | (given milk from breast) | amamantado adj |
| | Doctors are researching whether breastfed babies behave differently from bottlefed babies. |
| | Los médicos están estudiando si los bebés amamantados se comportan de manera diferente a los alimentados con biberón. |
| corn-fed adj | UK (poultry: raised on corn) | alimentado con maíz loc adj |
| | | alimentado a maíz, criado a maíz loc adj |
| | Nuestros pollos de corral son alimentados exclusivamente con maíz. |
| corn-fed adj | US (beef: raised on corn) | criado con maíz loc adj |
| | | alimentado a maíz, criado a maíz loc adj |
| corn-fed adj | US, informal, figurative (naive, unsophisticated) (informal) | simplón/ona adj |
fed up,
fed-up adj | informal (weary, exasperated) | harto/a adj |
| | | cansado/a, hastiado adj |
| Note: A hyphen is used when the adjective precedes the noun |
| | You look fed up. What's wrong? |
| | Pareces harto. ¿Qué pasó? |
fed up with [sth],
fed up of [sth] expr | informal (weary, exasperated) | harto de adj + prep |
| | | cansado de, hastiado de adj + prep |
| | Audrey was fed up with the bad weather. |
| | Fed up of being sent from one office to another, Joan lost her temper. |
| | Audrey estaba harta del mal tiempo. // Harta de que la mandaran de una oficina a la otra, Joan perdió los cabales. |
fed up,
fed-up adj | informal (expressing exasperation) | de hartazgo loc adj |
| | Megan gave a fed-up sigh. |
| | Megan soltó un suspiro de hartazgo. |
be fed up to the back teeth of doing [sth],
be sick to the back teeth of doing [sth] v expr | figurative, informal (be exasperated by [sth] repeated) | estar hasta acá de loc verb |
| | (ES) | estar hasta la coronilla de loc verb |
| | (AR) | estar hinchado los huevos de loc verb |
| Note: also "with doing sth" |
| | She said angrily that she was fed up to the back teeth of hearing us bicker. |
| | Dijo muy enojada que estaba hasta acá de escucharnos discutir. |
| force-fed adj | (animal, person: fed against will) | cebado/a adj |
| grass-fed adj | (animals: allowed to forage) | alimentado con hierbas naturales loc adj |
| | | alimentado con pasturas naturales loc adj |
| ill-fed adj | (under-nourished) | mal alimentado loc adj |
| | | malnutrido/a adj |
| | | desnutrido/a adj |
| | The children at the boarding school were very ill-fed—they were never given breakfast, and the dishes rarely contained meat. |
| | Los niños en el internado estaban muy mal alimentados, nunca les daban el desayuno y los platos raramente contenían carne. |
| spoon-fed adj | (infant: given food by spoon) | que le dan de comer con cuchara loc adj |
well fed,
well-fed adj | (plump) (irónico) | bien alimentado loc adj |
| | | rellenito adj |
| Note: A hyphen is used when the adjective precedes the noun |