off one's feed



off one's feed

Have no desire to eat, have lost one's appetite, as in Even though Mom's gone only for a week, her absence puts Dad off his feed. Originating in the early 1800s and first used only for animals, this colloquial term later was applied to humans as well.
See also: feed, off

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Bhavna-Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Malayalam
Tarastah-RAHS (Russian)Ukrainian, Russian
In'am-Arabic
Junior['dʒu:njə]
IdaIE-də (English), EE-dah (German, Swedish, Danish, Dutch, Italian)English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Hungarian, Slovene
Denisde-NEE (French), DEN-is (English), DE-nis (German)French, Russian, English, German, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Romanian, Croatian