ثَفِلٌ

(tropical:) One who eats ثُفْل. (K. [It seems to be there indicated that the latter word is to be understood in this case in the former of the senses assigned to it above; but it is not so.]) One says, لَيْسَ الثَّفِلُ كَالْمَحِضِ, i. e. (tropical:) He who eats ثُفْل [or grain, &c.,] is not like him who drinks pure milk. (TA.) And ↓ هُمْ مُثَافِلُونَ (tropical:) They are eating ثُفْل, i. e. grain, (T, S, M, K, TA,) or flesh-meat, or bread, or dates, (T,) [&c.,] being in want of milk; (T, S;) the hardest of the means of subsistence (T, S, M) to the Bedawee. (T, S.)