What does well-covered mean?
Well-covered means Amply equipped or provisioned, especially with respect to a place where food is served..
Well-covered
Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Meaning
Amply equipped or provisioned, especially with respect to a place where food is served..
Definitions by Sense
- Amply equipped or provisioned, especially with respect to a place where food is served.
- (chiefly British, of a person, euphemistic) Fat, corpulent, full-figured.
Example Sentences
He kept shaking Mr Gibson's hand all the time till he had placed him, nothing loth, at the well-covered dining-table.
How are you to bid a starving man to wait when you put him down at a well-covered board?
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.
"She wasn't much of a skeleton as I remember her," murmured Euphemia, "extremely well-covered."
The sculptor Botero—influenced perhaps by Maillol’s love of well covered women—created in 1981 an overweight, stumpy couple.
Synonyms for well-covered
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Word Forms
- more well-covered
- most well-covered
- well covered
Usage Notes
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He kept shaking Mr Gibson's hand all the time till he had placed him, nothing loth, at the well-covered dining-table.
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