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well-covered

well-covered adjective: amply equipped or provisioned, especially with respect to a place where food is served.

Adjective

well-covered (comparative more well-covered, superlative most well-covered)

  1. Amply equipped or provisioned, especially with respect to a place where food is served.
    • He kept shaking Mr Gibson's hand all the time till he had placed him, nothing loth, at the well-covered dining-table.1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, chapter 33, in Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published...
    • How are you to bid a starving man to wait when you put him down at a well-covered board?1865 May 15 – 1866 January 1, Anthony Trollope, “Taking Possession”, in The Belton Estate. […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published December 1865 (indicated as 1866), →OCLC, page 239
  2. (UK, euphemistic) Fat, corpulent, full-figured.
    • That simple dancing of well-covered matrons, laying aside for an hour the cares of house and dairy, remembering but not affecting youth, not jealous but proud of the young maidens by their side […] it would be a pleasant variety to see all that sometimes.1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 26, in Adam Bede […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC
    • "She wasn't much of a skeleton as I remember her," murmured Euphemia, "extremely well-covered."1921, John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga, part 2, ch. 11

Forms of well-covered

comparativemore well-covered
superlativemost well-covered
alternative formwell covered

Words formed from well-covered

Questions about well-covered

What does well-covered mean?
Well-covered means amply equipped or provisioned, especially with respect to a place where food is served.
What part of speech is well-covered?
Well-covered is an adjective.

Words near well-covered in the dictionary

  1. well-built
  2. well-child clinic
  3. well-child clinics
  4. well-connected
  5. well-coupled
  6. well-covered
  7. well-coveredness
  8. well-crafted
  9. well-defined
  10. well-definedness
  11. well-deserved

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