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sodden Venison


Title Sodden Venison
Source UNC 1964 John White drawings
Origin scans from UNC 1964 John White drawings
Occurrences

sodden Venison

Additional Notes

"Sodden" is literally defined in the OED as “cooked or prepared by boiling,” which is how Hariot is using the word, it would soon (earliest OED example – 1599) pick up the connotations of “rendered dull, stupid, or expressionless; pale or flaccid.”