Meanings
- not comparablefed by hand.
A handfed baby parrot represents days, weeks, years of feeding, cleaning, and care cycles.
2007, Mattie Sue Athan, Guide to a Well-Behaved Parrot, page 22 more examples
We are in the great preserves, where hares in herds and troops of handfed pheasants invite the attention of banded poachers, and provoke heartburnings in parishes that ought to be peaceful.
1880 December 28, Blackwood's Magazine, volume 128, page 759A handfed parrot is one that has been taken from the nest at a young age and fed by hand by a human.
2011, Nikki Moustaki, Parrots For Dummies
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of handfeed
Origin
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