خَصِيفٌ عَوْبَثَانِىٌّ

Flour and clarified butter and dates mixed with fresh milk: so it is said to mean in the following verse:

إِذَا مَا الخَصِيفُ العَوْبَثَانِىُّ سَاءَنَا

تَرَكْنَاهُ وَاخْتَرْنَا السَّدِيفَ المُسَرْهَدَا

[When the mess of flour and clarified butter and dates mixed with fresh milk displeases us, we leave it, and choose the fat camel's hump, or the camel's hump cut in pieces]: (S, O: [see also خَصِيفٌ:]) this verse is by Náshireh Ibn-Málik, replying to El-Mukhabbal, who reproached him for feeding upon milk. (IB, TA.)