acorned
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]acorned (not comparable) (possessional)
- Furnished or loaded with acorns
- (rare) Fed or filled with acorns.
- 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]:
- Like a full-acorn'd boar, a German one,
Cried "O!" and mounted; found no opposition