peeled

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From peel (verb) +‎ -ed (suffix forming past tenses).

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. (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

See also

• skinned

Etymology 2

From peel (noun) +‎ -ed (“having”).

Adjective

peeled (not comparable)

1. (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.