rancid

Modifying Another Word

• particularly: I've just spent the best part of two hours getting rid of the best part of 200 pieces of particularly rancid spam.
• fairly: Although to be honest it's a fairly rancid plot, it is at least familiar and your mood is calm.

Modifies a noun

• smell: The rancid, sour smell of dragon wafted up from the large pen below.
• butter: For instance, there is a humorous passage about cooking with butter that will have you smiling about rancid butter in every dish.
• fat: Buy a gas mask and smear it with rancid animal fat.
• taste: Just for the refreshment of it, I mean, and to take the rancid taste out of our mouth.
• food: They are designed to eat freshly killed animals and seem to have lost the ability to cope with rancid food.
• meat: The stigma that our forebears had to make do with rancid meat is nonsense.

Used with adjective complement

• turn: We can also take in extra doses by eating food in which the fat has turned rancid, by smoking or drinking alcohol.
• go: They keep it from going rancid, thus allowing a storage life of up to five years.
• become: Storage Due to their high oil content, the seeds will quickly become rancid.
• smell: Worse food, worse drink, darker walls, and discontent in the air smelling more rancid than the beer.