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The Collins WordbanksOnline English corpus is composed of 56 million words

'rancid' in Collocation Sampler

Collocate / Corpus Freq / Joint Freq / Significance
butter / 1149 / 9 / 2.997682
of / 1100578 / 17 / 2.507292
because / 57445 / 4 / 1.826133
yak / 34 / 3 / 1.731932
smell / 1427 / 3 / 1.727064
they / 224821 / 5 / 1.627447
odour / 94 / 2 / 1.413811
sesame / 125 / 2 / 1.413679
seeds / 796 / 2 / 1.410806
cheese / 1295 / 2 / 1.408671
wet / 1646 / 2 / 1.407168
warm / 3393 / 2 / 1.399690
up / 104073 / 3 / 1.368327
full / 14868 / 2 / 1.350573
was / 340423 / 5 / 1.314497
an / 136157 / 3 / 1.256196
how / 50009 / 2 / 1.200157
its / 53185 / 2 / 1.186563
with / 290716 / 4 / 1.120099
them / 76140 / 2 / 1.088307
this / 190140 / 3 / 1.067531
and / 1129483 / 10 / 1.000184
pervis / 1 / 1 / 0.999994
basted / 6 / 1 / 0.999964
sourness / 8 / 1 / 0.999952
anointed / 37 / 1 / 0.999776
dollop / 38 / 1 / 0.999770
concoction / 40 / 1 / 0.999758
intestines / 42 / 1 / 0.999746
lanolin / 53 / 1 / 0.999679
aphrodisiac / 55 / 1 / 0.999667
liberally / 72 / 1 / 0.999564
revolting / 73 / 1 / 0.999558
dung / 76 / 1 / 0.999540
umbrellas / 81 / 1 / 0.999510

'rancid' in Concordance Sampler

FATIMA MANSONGS he fronts a band with a truly rancid soul. Life for this man is clearly one shit-

around his neck. Yet beneath the flow of rancid keyboard instrumentation and daft wailing

stop feeding, because the protein becomes rancid in their intestines. [p] Record producer Pete

Robb & Co. provided a much-needed blast of rancid breath in an era when being clean-cut (

Sinatra described Elvis Presley's music as a rancid-smelling aphrodisiac which gives an

was as it should be: complex, of horses and rancid butter, naturally but otherwise not as rank

Its number is 8; its flavour sour; its odour rancid. [p] Its place of sacrifice is the interior

damp bodies and clothes, to say nothing of the rancid lanolin of sheep long gone. Although the rain

it was there. And she could smell it now, a rancid odour of decay, sickly, and growing stronger.

wipes and a brush. I can be dressed in rancid jeans, standing up to my crotch in swamp and

Battle of Adowa. Their hair was anointed with rancid butter which smelt revolting. Taken off

hair arranged in spikes, basted liberally with rancid butter, had prepared a meal of traditional

than tea and, very often, a large dollop of rancid butter is added as a delicacy. Apart from

fatal wounds, a savage beast holed up in a rancid cave, pitiful but dangerous. If anyone

meets her apparently gets an onslaught of how rancid meat is and how children should be shown a

old wireless. [p] Over milky tea, made with rancid butter and heavy measures of salt, our host

I have bought poppy or sesame seeds they taste rancid. Why does this happen and how can I avoid it

it LIKE nuts, poppy and sesame seeds become rancid easily because they have a high oil content.

sure they are fresh and sweet. If they are rancid, return them immediately to the store. Fresh

the murky water before but it shows up the rancid air of desperation hanging about Naked Gun

the dregs on the floor, where they soon go rancid. This is one reason why shoes are not removed

Valley into a miniature Tibet. The smells of rancid yak butter, incense, dung fire smoke,

means tea: a unique concoction of salt, rancid yak butter, natural soda, and strong tea, all

a whole line of products and let them get rancid because I didn't like them, or they made me

gunk on his lips and his mouth was full of rancid sourness. He worked his way over to the

which smells something like a combination of rancid butter and smelly gym socks: You are going

into his face and onto his bare hands, the rancid smell of the wet gutters and paving, the

clothes--on their shoes and umbrellas--the rancid smell of the wet dusk outside, but Blake

wife Gingersnap, choir director Pervis Lee Rancid and the fabric twins, Rayon and Banlon, and

Well, I think it's either a goat's cheese or a rancid-yak-milk cheese. It's one or the other, and

is the same chemical process that turns butter rancid. Vitamin E is an anti-oxidant and may keep

wintertime foods, because they quickly turn rancid in warm weather. Some people worry that birds

well we all know that fats spoil by becoming rancid but we're not always aware of just how many

Erm then that horrible cardboard box full of rancid old sheets that'll have to go outside in the

and cold but in summer it was awful it was rancid and it was warm and used to dread the milk