peeled

English

Etymology

From peel +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /piːld/
• Homophone: pealed
• Rhymes: -iːld

Adjective

peeled (not comparable)

1. With the outermost layer or skin removed.

   Antonym: unpeeled

   The peeled fruit quickly turned brown.

   He stirred the campfire stew with a peeled stick, so the bark wouldn't get in it.

2. (rare) Having a peel; (in combination) having the specified type of peel.

   Synonym: (rare) peely

   • 1958 June, J. Henry Burke, Citrus Industry of Chile (Foreign Agricultural Report; 108), page 14:

     Genova lemons average 8-10 sections and 5-6 seeds. They are thick-peeled and acid. Thin-peeled fruit at right was cured about 10 days.

   • 1995, Agricultural Bulletin of the Malay Peninsula, volume 47, page 109:

     Only some mammals, such as monkeys (Janson, 1983) and bats (Phua and Corlett, 1989), appear to have the necessary dental capacity to open peeled fruits.

   • 2014, David Zinczenko, Matt Goulding, Cook This, Not That! Skinny Comfort Foods, New York, N.Y.: Galvanized Books, →ISBN:

     We don’t know who Foster is, but he sure hates bananas. This New Orleans classic takes the nutritious yellow-peeled fruit, drowns it in butter, smothers it with sugar, douses it with rum, and sets it on fire.

   • 2021, Simon Goisser, Suitability of Portable NIR Sensors (Food-Scanners) for the Determination of Fruit Quality Along the Supply Chain Using the Example of Tomatoes, Cuvillier Verlag, →ISBN, page 15:

     Transmittance mode can help to gather information about the constituents of thick-peeled fruit (e.g., citrus fruit, cantaloupes, melons), however these measurements require very high light intensities, which could result in burning of fruit surface and the alteration of spectral information.

3. (bodybuilding) Dieted down such as having attained a peak contrast of trained muscle volume.

   Hypernyms: see Thesaurus:strapping

Derived terms

• keep one's eyes peeled
• unpeeled

Translations

with outer layer removed

• French: pelé (fr)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skrellet

• Tagalog: talop

Verb

peeled

1. simple past and past participle of peel