Rottingness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Something which is undergoing rot or decomposition. rare, uncountable

    "He sent women down to the beach to collect the guttings and debris left there, the rottingness of fish which stank so badly, the unsaltable entrails of cod and plaice and porpoise in wooden buckets."

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"He sent women down to the beach to collect the guttings and debris left there, the rottingness of fish which stank so badly, the unsaltable entrails of cod and plaice and porpoise in wooden buckets."

Etymology

From Middle English rotyngnesse; equivalent to rotting + -ness.

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