greasy spoon

We found a good little greasy spoon down a side street.

I find that most gay men love to cook for others but would rather visit any greasy spoon than eat by themselves.

1985 December 14, Robert Storem, “The Dating Game”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 22, page 6:

From the highway, Phil's looked like any other greasy spoon inviting the weary traveler off the road for a little indigestion and a cup of coffee — the same red booths patched with black electrical tape and faded formica counters lined with chrome-sided stools, a glass pie pin near the cash register, and coffee served in thick white mugs.

1995, Sam DeSanto, The American Standard, East African Publishers, →ISBN, page 55:

Reward yourself for a week of healthful eating with breakfast at a greasy spoon. Nutritionists say an occasional cheat meal can make it easier to stick with a healthy diet.

2008 January–February, “70 Ways to Improve Every Day of the Week”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 135:

(idiomatic, informal) An inexpensive diner or other informal restaurant, especially one specializing in frying or grilling.


skillet

→ Missouri French: esquilette

From Old French escuëlette, diminutive of escuëlle (“a porringer”), (French écuelle), from Vulgar Latin scutella, diminutive of scutra, scuta (“tray, dish”). Compare scuttle (“basket”).

Heat some oil in a cast-iron skillet and add the onions.

Inside this paper plane
Note my words are Navy sealed
So here and I quote
Taboo and I are in the same boat
What's said from Pennywise
I guess we all float
Sky is the limit, I could die in a minute
Got my mind in a skillet
Suicide not a mission
See the vibe very timid
I'm timid and very sad
Translated my thoughts and feelings
I pivot into the pad

2018, “Black Balloons”, performed by Denzel Curry:

A pan for frying, generally large and heavy.

This is an easy skillet with potatoes and bacon.

Can you make up a quick skillet hash?

(sometimes attributive) A dish or meal cooked in such a pan.


skillet

en-verb

skillet (third-person singular simple present skillets, present participle skilleting, simple past and past participle skilleted)

skillets (present singular third-person)
skilleting (participle present)
skilleted (participle past)
skilleted (past)

Now that the season has arrived in many parts of the country for the nimrods to load their trusty Thirty-Thirties and go forth in quest of the elusive deer, it seems an appropriate time to say a word about the skilleting of venison — which can be a pretty tough and dry proposition if not properly handled.

1960, The Cattleman, volume 47, page 46:

That said, Danton in manhood is probed and skilleted, admired and reviled in a multitude of memoirs written by contemporaries who love him, loathe him or simply stand and watch as the Danton tempest roars past.

2010, David Lawday, The Giant of the French Revolution: Danton, A Life:


patent

en-adj

patent (comparative more patent, superlative most patent)

more patent (comparative)
most patent (superlative)

From Middle English patent, patente (“wide open; clear, unobstructed; unlimited; of a document: available for public inspection”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman and Middle French patent (modern French patent), and directly from their etymon Latin patēns (“open; accessible, passable; evident, manifest; exposed, vulnerable”), the present active participle of pateō (“to be open; to be accessible, attainable; to be exposed, vulnerable; of frontiers or land: to extent, increase”), from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to spread out; to fly”).

der

[ˈpʰæ̝ʔn̩t̚]

[ˈpʰe̞ɪʔn̩t̚]

(baking) Of flour: fine, and consisting mostly of the inner part of the endosperm of the grain from which it is milled.


retsina

en-noun

retsina (countable and uncountable, plural retsinas)

Borrowed from Greek ρετσίνα (retsína), from ρετσίνι (retsíni, “resin”), from Ancient Greek ῥητίνη (rhētínē, “pine resin”).

der

She serves the smooth retsina / She keeps me safe and warm / It's just the calm before the storm

1977, Donald Fagen, Walter Becker (lyrics and music), “Home at Last”, in Aja, performed by Steely Dan:

A Greek resinated white or rosé wine of a sort that has been produced for at least 2700 years.


gustatory

en-adj

gustatory (comparative more gustatory, superlative most gustatory)

more gustatory (comparative)
most gustatory (superlative)

/ˈɡʌstəˌtɔɹi/

/ˈɡʌstətəɹi/

From Latin gustātus, participle of gustō (“to taste”), + -ory.

WHERE TO DINE—Well, Mary Ward, our courageous gustatory investigatress, has finally completed her rounds of the eateries and, with her last despairing effort, dashed off this report on the road houses: […]

1941 June 1, Bill Henry, “By the Way”, in Los Angeles Times, volume LX, Los Angeles, Calif.: Times-Mirror Company, part II, page 1, column 1:


curd

en-noun

curd (countable and uncountable, plural curds)

From Middle English curd, a metathetic variant of crud, crudde (“coagulated substance”). Doublet of crud.


quesadilla

/ˌkeɪ̯səˈdiːə/

A Mexican dish made by filling a tortilla with cheese and sometimes other ingredients and then cooking it until the cheese is melted.


percolate

en-verb

percolate (third-person singular simple present percolates, present participle percolating, simple past and past participle percolated)

percolates (present singular third-person)
percolating (participle present)
percolated (participle past)
percolated (past)

From Latin percōlātus, past participle of percōlō (“I filter”), itself, from per (“through”) + cōlō (“I strain”) (from cōlum (“a strainer”), of unknown origin).

просмуквам се

(intransitive) drain through a porous substance

I'll percolate some coffee.

Boiled, percolated, pressed, or filtered, black coffee ranges from a light tea-like drink to deep black brew.

2005, Mark F. Sohn, Appalachian Home Cooking, page 36:

(transitive) To make (coffee) in a percolator.

φιλτράρω

(transitive) to make coffee in a percolator

φιλτράρομαι

(intransitive) to make coffee in a percolator


rib

From Middle English ribbe, from Old English ribbe (“hound's-tongue”).

Nasturtium officinale
Nasturtium officinale#Translingual

(botany) Watercress (Nasturtium officinale).


frying pan

→ Macanese: falânpám

From Middle English fryyng panne; equivalent to frying + pan.

And if thy oblation be a meate offering baken in the frying pan,it ſhalbe made of fine flowꝛe with oyle.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 2:7:

(cooking) A long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food.


rundown

→ Spanish: rondón

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-rundown.wav

Smith is caught in a rundown, but Jones will come around to score.

(baseball) A defensive play in which the runner is caught between two fielders, who steadily converge to tag the runner out.

A Caribbean stew of meat or fish (typically mackerel) with reduced coconut milk, yam, tomato, onion and seasonings.

The rundown of LNER's Class 91/Mk 4 fleet continues, with two more locomotives sent for store at Doncaster and a rake of coaches moving to Worksop,

2020 May 20, “Fleet News: LNER sends more '91s' off-lease”, in Rail, page 22:

A reduction, e.g. of an activity, or in the size of something, such as a fleet.


vermicelli

en-noun

vermicelli (usually uncountable, plural vermicellis)

→ Irish: veirmisilí

From Italian vermicelli, plural of vermicello (“little worm”), from verme (“worm”), from Latin vermis + -cello (“diminutive suffix”).

They talked of the experiments of Dr. Darwin, (I speak not of what the Doctor really did, or said that he did, but, as more to my purpose, of what was then spoken of as having been done by him,) who preserved a piece of vermicelli in a glass case, till by some extraordinary means it began to move with voluntary motion.

1831 October 15, Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, “Introduction”, in Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus (Standard Novels; IX), 3rd edition, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], published 31 October 1831, →OCLC, pages ix–x:

Long, slender pasta, similar to spaghetti, only thinner.


shoestring

The noun is derived from shoe + string. The adjective is derived from the noun, while the verb is derived from terms such as shoestring catch and shoestring tackle.

shoestring French fries

An object that is long and thin, like a shoestring (sense 1).

(cooking) A long, narrow cut of a food; a julienne.

жулиен

long, narrow cut of a food — see also julienne


bloated

en-adj

bloated (comparative more bloated, superlative most bloated)

more bloated (comparative)
most bloated (superlative)

For large firms, the SketchUp Workflow for Architecture will fit in where a bloated, overfeatured software suite is not necessary.

2018, Michael Brightman, The SketchUp Workflow for Architecture, page 5:

(computing, of software) Excessively overloaded with features, like bloatware.


croquette

Borrowed from French croquette, from croquer (“to crunch”) + -ette (suffix indicating diminution). Doublet of korokke.

(cooking) A minced, cooked food (usually meat or vegetables), which is deep-fried in fat and sometimes sprinkled with breadcrumbs.


slop

en-noun

slop (countable and uncountable, plural slops)

Probably from Middle English *sloppe (attested in plural form sloppes), representing Old English *sloppe (attested in cūsloppe), related to slip.

(sometimes in the plural) Scraps used as food for animals, especially pigs or hogs.


taramosalata

/ˌtɑɹəməsəˈlɑːtə/

/ˌtæɹəməsəˈlɑːtə/

From Greek ταραμοσαλάτα (taramosaláta), from ταραμάς (taramás, “cod roe”) (from Turkish tarama) + σαλάτα (saláta, “salad”) (from Italian insalata, cognate to English salad).

uder

ταραμοσαλάτα

A Turkish and Greek dish of fish roe (carp or cod), lemon juice, breadcrumbs, onion, garlic, and olive oil; often served as a meze or with pitta bread.


meze

en-noun

meze (countable and uncountable, plural mezes or mezedes)

From Turkish meze and Greek μεζές (mezés), both from Ottoman Turkish مزه (meze), from Persian مزه (maze, “taste, snack”).

Small portions of starters typical of Turkish, Greek and Levantine cuisine (equivalent to Spanish tapas or Hawaiian pu pu) often served as a light meal with pita.


tzatziki

tzatziki (usually uncountable, plural tzatzikis)

From Greek τζατζίκι (tzatzíki), from Ottoman Turkish جاجیگ (cacıg). Doublet of cacik.

An appetizer made from yoghurt, cucumber, garlic, olive oil and dill or mint; usually served with pitta bread and as a meze


ardent spirits

First attested 1471, from its inflammability; see etymology section of ardent.

"Even then I realized the possibilities of my suburb, that hotbed of revolution in which heroes, inventors, and practical men of science, rogues and scoundrels, virtues and vices, were all packed together by poverty, stifled by necessity, drowned in drink, and consumed by ardent spirits."

1837, et al, Honoré de Balzac, translated by Clara Bell, Facino Cane:

Strong distilled alcoholic liquor or whiskey.


dainty

From Middle English deynte (as noun), from Old French deintié, from Latin dignitātem. Doublet of dignity.

(Northwestern Ontario, Canadian Prairies, British Columbia, usually in the plural) A fancy cookie, pastry, or square, frequently homemade, served at a social event.


temper

en-verb

temper (third-person singular simple present tempers, present participle tempering, simple past and past participle tempered)

tempers (present singular third-person)
tempering (participle present)
tempered (participle past)
tempered (past)

From Middle English temperen, tempren, from Old English ġetemprian, temprian, borrowed from Latin temperō (“I divide or proportion duly, I moderate, I regulate; intransitive senses I am moderate, I am temperate”), from tempus (“time, fit season”). Compare also French tempérer. Doublet of tamper. See temporal.

der

(cooking) To adjust the temperature of an ingredient (e.g. eggs or chocolate) gradually so that it remains smooth and pleasing.


consommé

en-noun

consommé (countable and uncountable, plural consommés)

Unadapted borrowing from French consommé. Doublet of consummate.

ubor

For after washing at the hotel at Patras, Jacob had followed the tram lines a mile or so out; and followed them a mile or so back; he had met several droves of turkeys; several strings of donkeys; had got lost in back streets; had read advertisements of corsets and Maggi's consommé; children had trodden on his toes; the place smelt of bad cheese; and he was glad to find himself suddenly come out opposite his hotel.

1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, paperback edition, Vintage Classics, page 132:

a clear broth made from reduced meat or vegetable stock, served either hot as a soup or chilled as a jelly


escargot

en-noun

escargot (countable and uncountable, plural escargots)

/ˌɛskɑɹˈɡoʊ/

J. is dating P. at NYU and modeling on the side. They're planning to meet us in Paris for spring break so J. can go to some look-sees (and eat some escargot, obv.).

2007, Melissa de la Cruz, Crazy Hot, page 270:

(uncountable) A dish, commonly associated with French cuisine, consisting of edible snails.


appetizer

A small, light, and usually savory first course in a meal


chewy

en-adj

chewy (comparative chewier, superlative chewiest)

chewier (comparative)
chewiest (superlative)

a chewy wine


balsamic vinegar

en-noun

balsamic vinegar (countable and uncountable, plural balsamic vinegars)

A dark, sweet vinegar, made from reduced white wine, that has been matured in wooden barrels, the resins of which contribute to its flavour; especially such a vinegar from Modena in Italy.

балсамов оцет

a dark, sweet vinegar, made from reduced white wine


banoffee pie

banoffee pie (countable and uncountable, plural banoffee pies)

Many walkers who had never travelled this route before were hugely impressed by the scenic beauty of the line, which they enjoyed along with another excellent meal of lasagne with garlic bread, followed by banoffee pie.

2023 July 12, Paul Bigland, “Walkers and helpers play a 3 Peaks blinder”, in RAIL, number 987, page 60:

A dessert made from bananas, toffee and cream on a base of crushed biscuit or similar.


burgoo

burgoo (countable and uncountable, plural burgoos)

goo

Of unclear origin. Apparently from the dialectal term burgood (“yeast”).
* Perhaps ultimately from Welsh burym (“yeast”) + cawl (“cabbage, gruel”),
* Or perhaps from Arabic بُرْغُل (burḡul).
* Or, from an alteration of ragout.

(nautical) A dish which originated among seafarers during the days of sail: a sort of porridge seasoned with sugar, salt and butter.

(Midwestern US) A spicy stew, typically made with a combination of meats and vegetables, and often served with cornbread or corn muffins.


s'more

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

A contraction of some more, so called because they are meant to be so tasty that you always want some more.

1990, Margaret Kenda, Cooking Wizardry for Kids
S’Mores are a traditional favorite cook-out food with Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts.

2003, Sheri Joseph, Bear Me Safely Over
She bit into the s’more, and the melted marshmallow goo fell over her lip, onto her chin.

2003, Cynthia Kaplan, I’m Like This
I’d had too many s’mores.

(US, Canada) A snack food made by combining graham crackers, marshmallows (frequently toasted) and chocolate, a typical camping fireside treat.


gnocchi

gnocchi (countable and uncountable, plural gnocchis)

gnocchi pl (normally plural, singular gnocco)

gnocchi (canonical)
gnocchi (canonical plural)
gnocchis (plural)
gnocco (singular)

From Italian gnocchi, plural of gnocco (“dumpling”, literally “lump”), related to nocchio (“knot (in wood)”), a borrowing from Lombardic knohha (“knuckle, bone, knot”), from Proto-Germanic *knukô (“bone”), *kneukaz (“tuber, knuckle”), from Proto-Indo-European *gnew- (“knot, bundle”). Cognate with Middle High German knoche (“bone, knot”) (modern German Knochen), Middle Dutch knoke (“knuckle, knob, knot”), Swedish knoge (“knuckle”). More at knuckle.

cog

Dip each gnocco into the flour, shaking off excess. Carefully lower the gnocchi, one at a time, into the simmering water. Cook a few at a time since they must not touch each other while cooking. The gnocchi will be cooked when they rise to the surface; this should take 2 to 3 minutes, depending on the gnocchi.

1978, Nika Hazelton, The Regional Italian Kitchen, M. Evans and Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 129:

Test one gnocchi by placing it in a large pot of rapidly boiling lightly salted water.

1999, Thomas Keller, The French Laundry Cookbook, Artisan, →ISBN, page 119:

Silky, feather-light and with an other-worldly texture, home-made gnocchi is one of the most spoiling things you can make for someone, yet it is surprisingly simple to put together, especially when just for two.

2017, Thomasina Miers, Home Cook: Over 300 Delicious, Fuss-Free Recipes, London: Guardian Books; Faber & Faber Ltd, →ISBN, page 159:

Italian pasta-like dumpling(s) made of potato or semolina.


tasteful

en-adj

tasteful (comparative more tasteful, superlative most tasteful)

more tasteful (comparative)
most tasteful (superlative)

Her home was decorated with tasteful, classical furnishings.

Having or exhibiting good taste; aesthetically pleasing or conforming to expectations or ideals of what is appropriate.


preprandial

Whilst meditating on the beauty and design as shown in the ant-eater, whose præprandial movements I was intently watching, a young gentleman (not a naturalist) asked me, sotto voce, "what is that contrivance?" "It is a contrivance," said I, "for catching ants, and that is why he is called the ant-eater," I continued to a young lady, who wanted to know the meaning of his name.

1854, “The Ant-eater”, in Bentley's Miscellany, volume XXXV, London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, page 550:

Gauss laid aside his pipe, pulled his velvet cap over the back of his head, returned the Russian dictionary and the little volume of Pushkin to the shelf, and prepared to go for his preprandial walk.

2006, Daniel Kehlmann; Carol Brown Janeway, transl., Measuring the World, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books; republished London: Quercus, 2007, page 251

Patients who demonstrate significant insulin resistance at diagnosis and require insulin therapy may alternate preprandial and postprandial evaluations to enable more rapid optimization of control by using an additional supplemental insulin sliding scale as needed to cover preprandial hyperglycaemia (>100 ml per dl)[…].

2007, Margarita de Veciana, Arthur T. Evans, “Endocrine Disorders: Diabetes”, in Arthur T. Evans, editor, Manual of Obstetrics, 7th edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN, page 285:

Social drinkers (as they are sometimes called) may have excellent control over the amount they drink and still look forward to a preprandial aperitif (and miss it when they do not get one).

2008, Ann M. Manzardo, Donald W. Goodwin, Jan L. Campbell, Elizabeth C. Penick, William F. Gabrielli, Jr., “The Symptoms”, in Alcoholism (The Facts), 4th edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 47:

The standardized analysis of metabolic parameters in the preprandial and postprandial state may provide important functional clues for the diagnosis of metabolic disorders.

2010, Johannes Zschocke, “Function Tests”, in Georg F. Hoffmann, Johannes Zschocke, William L[eo] Nyhan, editors, Inherited Metabolic Diseases: A Clinical Approach, Heidelberg: Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, page 347, column 1:

The slight increase in pre-prandial and post-prandial bile acids are suggestive of hepatic dysfunction, but other causes of slight elevations, such as pancreatic or gastrointestinal disease, cannot be ruled out.

2015, “Answers”, in Kathleen P. Freeman, Stefanie Klenner, editors, Veterinary Clinical Pathology: A Case-based Approach, Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, →ISBN, page 132:

Occurring before a meal, especially dinner.


preprandial

They drink, for one thing, sweet ports as preprandials, anathema to most English, who consider them digestifs, or after-dinner company.

1974, Chicago Guide, volume 23, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 143, column 1:

Why have people forsaken martinis, Manhattans, old fashioneds, and other preprandials of long-standing popularity?

1978, Horizon, volume 21, New York, N.Y.: American Heritage Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 189:

'How's Allison?' I asked over preprandials. He smiled as I ordered Southern Comfort – no ice, no soda; he liked the idea that some things don't change.

1991, Bernard Bannerman, chapter 4, in The Judge's Song, [U.K.]: Sphere Books; republished Sandy, Bedfordshire: Authors OnLine, 2009


lo mein

From Taishanese 撈麵 /捞面. See also chow mein, yi mein.

Coordinate term: chow mein

Yakisoba is one of those dishes with roots in several countries. Although it’s from Japan, it is Chinese influenced, similar to chow mein and lo mein.

2010 February 26, Mark Bittman, “Yakisoba: Leeway Among the Noodles”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

A Chinese dish consisting of soft noodles stir fried with vegetables and meat in sauce.


runcible spoon

1871, coined by Edward Lear with no definition, but was applied to the following by 1926.

They dined on mince, and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;

1871, Edward Lear, “Owl & Pussy-Cat”, in Nonsense Songs::

But the Baudelaires accepted their bowls of ceviche, as well as the strange utensils Friday handed them, which were made of wood and looked like a combination of a fork and a spoon.
"They're runcible spoons," Friday explained. "We don't have forks or knives in the colony, as they can be used as weapons."

2006, Lemony Snicket, chapter 4, in The End, page 87:

A fork-like spoon that has a cutting edge.


spring chicken

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-spring chicken.wav

From spring + chicken. First appears c. 1765 in The Public Advertiser.

(cooking) A chicken for eating while it is still young.


confection

From Middle English confescioun, borrowed from Old French confeccion (French confection), borrowed from Latin cōnfectiōnem, from confectus, past participle of conficere (“prepare”), from com- (“with”) + facere (“to make, do”). Originally "the making by means of ingredients"; sense of "candy or light pastry" predominant since 1500s.

The table was covered with all sorts of tempting confections.

A food item prepared very sweet, frequently decorated in fine detail, and often preserved with sugar, such as a candy, sweetmeat, fruit preserve, pastry, or cake.

(pharmacology) A preparation of medicine sweetened with sugar, honey, syrup, or the like; an electuary.

(obsolete, medicine) A medicinal preparation of any kind, a compound of drugs.

Was it not a goodly poison that he gave!
Why, he's as well now as he was before.
It shuld have been some fine confection
That might have given the broth some dainty taste

2007, Unknown, edited by White, Martin and Lockwood, Tom, Arden of Faversham, 2nd edition, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 20, Scene 1, ll. 421–425:


confection

en-verb

confection (third-person singular simple present confections, present participle confectioning, simple past and past participle confectioned)

confections (present singular third-person)
confectioning (participle present)
confectioned (participle past)
confectioned (past)

To make into a confection, prepare as a confection.


coulis

en-noun

coulis (usually uncountable, plural coulis or coulises)

Just then the desserts, mere bonnes bouches in foot-wide puddles of pink coulis, were set in front of them.

2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 378:

A thick sauce made with pureed vegetable or fruit and often used as a garnish.


marmite

marmite (countable and uncountable, plural marmites)

1824 Thomas Gill. The Technical Repository p. 180: XXXV: On the French Marmite, or Pot-au-Feu: and on preparing Bouillon with it
My little boy having been ill of a fever for forty days, I have learned from his attendant how to make the celebrated soup (bouillon) of Paris: and finding it to be superior to any that I ever before tasted, I take the liberty to send you the directions necessary to enable any one to prepare this cheap and desirable food.
Earthen-pots with covers, made to hold from one to seven pounds of meat, are found in every family. The marmite bought for me was for one-and-a-half pound only: this quantity of lean meat (bœufmaigre), was always part of the leg or shoulder: it was put into the marmite, which was then filled up with cold water, about five pints, and placed on the hearth, close to the wood-fire; and when it began to simmer or boil gently, it threw up a scum, which was carefully taken off from time to time with a spoon, for the space of threequarters of an hour, which perfectly cleansed the meat and water from every impurity.

(countable) A rounded cooking pot of various designs, commonly pot-bellied, with or without tripod, handles, lid etc; originally earthenware but currently more commonly of cast iron or other metals.


Peach Melba

Peach Melba (countable and uncountable, plural Peach Melbas)

Chef Auguste Escoffier at the Savoy Hotel in London in 1892 or 1893 created the dish for, and named it after, Australian opera singer Nellie Melba who took the pseudonym "Melba" from Melbourne, her home town.

A classic French dessert, made from peaches and raspberry sauce accompanied with vanilla ice cream.

Auguste Escoffier
Nellie Melba
Savoy Hotel


Caesar salad

Caesar salad (countable and uncountable, plural Caesar salads)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Caesar salad.wav

Named after (Italian-born) US restaurateur Caesar Cardini (1896–1956) who is generally thought to have invented it for his Tijuana restaurant in 1924.

Would you like some Caesar salad for lunch?

Of all the Caesar salads I've tasted, this is the finest.

Worcestershire sauce
Worcestershire sauce

(cooking, countable and uncountable) A type of salad, generally made from romaine lettuce, croutons, parmesan cheese, coddled or hard-boiled eggs, fresh-ground black pepper and Worcestershire sauce.


claret

claret (countable and uncountable, plural clarets)

From Middle English claret, from Middle French claret, from Medieval Latin clārātum vīnum, from clārus.
Compare tent (“Spanish red wine”), also from color

The vesper bell had rung its parting note; the domini were mostly caged in comfortable quarters, discussing the merits of old port; and the merry student had closed his oak, to consecrate the night to friendship, sack, and claret.

The New Sporting Magazine (volume 15, page 23)

CLARET JELLY SANDWICH: Soak one box of gelatine in one cup of cold water, then dissolve in one cup of boiling water, add one cup of sugar and strain. When cold, add the juice of half a lemon, and one cup of claret and set in a cool place. When ready for use, cover thin slices of lightly buttered white bread with the jelly, cover with another slice of buttered bread and cut in strips.

1909, Eva Greene Fuller, The Up-To-Date Sandwich Book: 400 Ways to Make a Sandwich, page 155:

(chiefly UK) A dry red wine produced in the Bordeaux region of France, or a similar wine made elsewhere.


swill

swill (countable and uncountable, plural swills)

From Middle English swilen (“to wash; swirl; wash away”), from Old English swillan, swilian (“to wash; wash down; swill; gargle”), from Proto-West Germanic *swilljan, from Proto-Germanic *swiljaną (“to gulp, swallow”), from Proto-Indo-European *swel- (“to drink, gulp, swallow”). Related to swallow.

der

(collective) A mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially kitchen waste for this purpose.

I cannot believe anyone could drink this swill.

(by extension) Any disgusting or distasteful liquid.

He took a swill of his drink and tried to think of words.

(informal) A large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow.


swill

en-verb

swill (third-person singular simple present swills, present participle swilling, simple past and past participle swilled)

swills (present singular third-person)
swilling (participle present)
swilled (participle past)
swilled (past)

[…] well-dressed people, of both sexes, […] devouring sliced beef, and swilling port, and punch, and cider […]

1771, [Tobias Smollett], The Expedition of Humphry Clinker […], volume I, London: […] W. Johnston, […]; and B. Collins, […], →OCLC, page 188:

“It is time lost,” muttered Cedric apart and impatiently, “to speak to him of aught else but that which concerns his appetite! […] he hath no pleasure save to fill, to swill, and to call for more. […]”

1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter XXI, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:

If you can give me no more than twenty-five shillings, I'm sure I'm not going to buy you pork-pie to stuff, after you've swilled a bellyful of beer.

1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 8, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:

1944, Rutherford George Montgomery (as Al Avery), A Yankee Flier in Italy, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter 1, p. 9,
O’Malley answered calmly as he shoved half of the pie into his mouth.
“Stop! Stop—swilling that pie!” the colonel roared.

The awful judge at the trial, booze-swilling hack James Haggerty

1992 February 2, Mitzel, “Clay Shaw, The Quean Network & That Kennedy Killing”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 28, page 6:

(transitive) To drink (or, rarely, eat) greedily or to excess.


eats

When are we going to get some eats?

The shower made me feel better, but I was still hungry.
"I'm going to grab some eats."
"Dinner will be waiting for you at home."
"I'M GOING TO GRAB SOME EATS."

1978, John Linssen, Tabitha fffoulkes, Arbor House, page 109:

At most of these parties, no one knew who the host was, and you just heard from a friend that there was one, you got some eats and off you went.

2011, Chathuri Nugawela, Eastern Waves, Western Shores, Xlibris, page 81:

Buggs sighed. He would have preferred to go get some eats too, but Ermin was right.

2017, Derek T. Morgan, More Cats Tails, Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Co., page 579:


aloo

From Hindustani آلو (ālo) / आलू (ālū), ultimately from Sanskrit आलु (ālu), said to mean the edible root of a variety of Amorphophallus paeoniifolius.


salamander

/ˈsæləˌmɑːndə/

From Middle English salamandre, from Anglo-Norman salamandre, from Latin salamandra, from Ancient Greek σαλαμάνδρα (salamándra), of uncertain origin (per Beekes, likely Pre-Greek); possibly of Iranian origin, see Persian سمندر (samandar) for more information.

The salamander, a fairly long metal utensil with a flat rounded head, was left in the fire until red hot and then used to brown the top of a dish without further cooking.

1977, Richard Daunton-Fear, Penelope Vigar, Australian Colonial Cookery (discussing 19th century cookery), Rigby, 1977, page 41

(cooking) A metal utensil with a flat head which is heated and put over a dish to brown the top.

The chef first put the steak under the salamander to sear the outside.

Overfired grills, or salamanders, can, in addition, be used for making toast and salamandering. They have the heat source above the food […]. This may comprise sets of burners firing below refractory or metal frets, or surface combustion plaques.

2006, Frank Saxon, editor, Tolley's Industrial and Commercial Gas Installation Practice [Gas Service Technology; 3], 4th edition, Oxford, Burlington, Mass.: Elsevier Newnes, →ISBN, page 35:

(cooking) A small broiler (North America) or grill (Britain) that heats the food from above, used in professional cookery primarily for browning.


butterscotch

en-noun

butterscotch (usually uncountable, plural butterscotches)

/ˈbʌtɚˌskɑt͡ʃ/

From butter + scotch, with the second element deriving (not from scotch whiskey or Scotland, but) from Middle English scocchen (“to score, nick, cut”), in reference to how the candy is boiled and hardened and then usually scored to make breaking it apart easier. The word is usually said to have originally been a trademark of Parkinson's, who is claimed to have invented it.

der

A hard candy made from butter, brown sugar, syrup and vanilla.


foodstuff

en-noun

foodstuff (countable and uncountable, plural foodstuffs)


focaccia

focaccia (countable and uncountable, plural focaccias)

Unadapted borrowing from Italian focaccia, from Late Latin focācium (via its plural focācia), derived from Latin focus (“hearth”). Doublet of fougasse and pagash. Cognate with Sicilian fugazza, Serbo-Croatian pogača (“unleavened bread”).

cog

The same dough can be used for bread, rolls, breadsticks, bruschetta, focaccia, calzone, or pizza. The only practical difference between pizza and focaccia is the thickness of the crust: Traditional pizza crust is thin, and something an inch or two thick […] is more like focaccia.

2001, Eve Zibart, The Ethnic Food Lover's Companion, page 47:

(uncountable) A flatbread similar in style, composition, and texture to modern pizza doughs and topped with herbs, cheese and other products. Focaccia typically consists of high-gluten flour, oil, water, sugar, salt and yeast.

(countable) A sandwich made with this type of bread.


junket

From Middle English jonket (“basket made of rushes; food, probably made of sour milk or cream; banquet, feast.”), from Medieval Latin iuncta, possibly from Latin iuncus (“rush, reed”) and therefore a possible doublet of jonquil.
Meaning shifted to "feast or banquet" by 1520s, probably via the notion of a picnic basket. This in turn led to the sense of "pleasure-trip" (1814), and then to specifically to "trip made ostensibly for business but which entails merrymaking or entertainment" by 1886 in American English.

der

An entertainment reporter who is a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association said Freeman made comments about her skirt and her legs during two different junkets.

2018, An Phung and Chloe Melas,"Women accuse Morgan Freeman of inappropriate behavior, harassment", CNN entertainment, May 24, 2018


saison

From French saison (“season”). Doublet of season.


modernist

en-adj

modernist (comparative more modernist, superlative most modernist)

more modernist (comparative)
most modernist (superlative)

Clipping of Modernist Cuisine (molecular gastronomy)

molecular gastronomy
molecular gastronomy

(cooking) Pertaining to the culinary arts of molecular gastronomy


ethyl alcohol

(organic chemistry, dated) ethanol, a type of alcohol.


frybread

en-noun

frybread (usually uncountable, plural frybreads)

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sweeten

en-verb

sweeten (third-person singular simple present sweetens, present participle sweetening, simple past and past participle sweetened)

sweetens (present singular third-person)
sweetening (participle present)
sweetened (participle past)
sweetened (past)

sour

antonym(s) of “to make warm and fertile”

From sweet + -en. Eclipsed and superseded non-native Middle English doucen and endoucen, borrowed from Old French adoucir and endoucir (“to sweeten”).

to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected

to sweeten the air

(transitive) To make pure and healthful by destroying noxious matter.


Peking duck

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Calque from Chinese 北京烤鴨／北京烤鸭 (Běijīng kǎoyā). Same as Peking + duck.

zh-l

北京烤鴨／北京烤鸭 (Běijīng kǎoyā)

During out third day in Peking, we received word that Premier Chou En-lai would have dinner with us. We sat in a banquet room in the Great Hall of the People and enjoyed a fabulous meal of Peking duck.

1980, Gerald Ford, A Time to Heal, New York: Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 94:

As restaurants in the Chinese capital drift in the doldrums of a COVID ban on dining in, one eatery manager and his army of chefs have set up stalls on the pavement to keep alive some of the old magic and drum up sales of their big seller, Peking duck.[…]"Our Peking duck sales have even gone up," Zheng, 35, told Reuters outside his restaurant as a queue of customers waited.

2022 May 18, Thomas Suen Suen, Ryan Woo, Ellen Zhang, “COVID or no COVID, Beijing diners won't be denied their Peking duck”, in Robert Birsel, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-05-18, China:

A Chinese dish consisting of roasted duck skin, small pancakes, hoisin sauce and other ingredients.


fruit salad

en-noun

fruit salad (countable and uncountable, plural fruit salads)

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(military, slang) Awards worn on a military uniform.


hummus

hummus (usually uncountable, plural hummuses)

From Turkish humus or directly from Arabic حُمُّص (ḥummuṣ).

A Levantine Arab dip made of chickpea paste with various additions, such as olive oil, fresh garlic, lemon juice, and tahini, often eaten with pitta bread, or as a meze.


sorrel

sorrel (countable and uncountable, plural sorrels)

From Middle English sorel, from Old French sorel, surele (“sorrel”), from Old French sur (“sour”), of Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sūraz (“sour”); equivalent to sour + -el (diminutive suffix). Compare Old English sūre (“sorrel”), Icelandic súra (“sorrel”), Dutch zuring (“dock (plant), sorrel”). More at sour.

Rumex acetosa
Rumex acetosa#Translingual

Any of various plants with acidic leaves of the genus Rumex, especially

Rumex acetosa (common sorrel, garden sorrel), sometimes used as a salad vegetable.


dressing

dressing (countable and uncountable, plural dressings)

→ German: Dressing

From Middle English dressing, dressinge, dressynge, equivalent to dress + -ing.

I was even more excited to tailor it with a choice of dressings — blue cheese, ranch, French, Russian, Italian, creamy Italian.

2021 July 21, Gabrielle Hamilton, “A Salad So Good You Can Eat It for Breakfast”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(cooking) A sauce, especially a cold one for salads.

مَرَقَة

sauce, especially a cold one for salads — see also salad dressing

Considered thus, the performance is a translation into images of bodies on display, as is well demonstrated by Monsieur Jourdain's repeated dressings and undressings.

2004, Kathryn Banks, Joseph Harris, Exposure: Revealing Bodies, Unveiling Representations, page 182:


soda

soda (countable and uncountable, plural sodas)

From Italian soda. Sense 4 is an ellipsis of soda water.

(chiefly US, uncountable) Any carbonated (usually sweet) soft drink.

agua (colloquial - short for agua gaseosa)

fresco

colloquial - regional and working class usage


sidecar

desc

→ Burmese: ဆိုက်ကား (hcuikka:, “pedicab, cycle rickshaw”)

→ Korean: 사이드카 (saideuka)

→ Welsh: seicar

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Faux 19th-century bartenders in sleeve garters and baroque facial hair ply their trade in pre-Prohibition bars. Women wearing cloche hats order sidecars at speakeasies.

2011 October 3, Wayne Curtis, “From Tiki to Tacky—and Back”, in The Atlantic:

A cocktail made with cognac (or brandy), triple sec liqueur, and lemon juice.


espresso

en-noun

espresso (countable and uncountable, plural espressos or espressi)

/ɛkˈspɹɛsəʊ/

/ɪkˈspɹɛsəʊ/

Borrowed from Italian espresso, from caffè espresso (“pressed-out coffee”), form of esprimere (“to press out”), from Latin exprimere, from ex- (“out”) + primere (“to press”).
Some sources derive the term from “expressly (‘individually, directly’) made for the customer”, or as “fast” (Italian espresso also meaning “fast”, as in English express (“fast”)) but these are not widely credited. The original term for modern espresso (coffee extracted under pressure) was cream coffee, from Italian caffè crema (variant: crema caffè), due to the crema, and was seen on early Gaggia machines, but this term is no longer used.

A concentrated coffee beverage brewed by forcing hot water under high pressure through finely ground coffee.


fizz

fizz (countable and uncountable, plural fizzes)

onomatopoeic

Onomatopoeia

Nathan ordered an orange fizz from the soda jerk at the counter.

When he had returned with what remained unslopped of two glasses of fizz, she was still there, waiting for him.

A carbonated beverage, especially champagne.


condiment

en-verb

condiment (third-person singular simple present condiments, present participle condimenting, simple past and past participle condimented)

condiments (present singular third-person)
condimenting (participle present)
condimented (participle past)
condimented (past)

From late Middle English condiment, from Old French condiment, from Latin condimentum, from condīre (“to preserve, pickle, season”). See also condite and compare recondite.


red biddy

(slang) A cheap alcoholic drink made by mixing red wine and methylated spirit.


red meat

en-noun

red meat (countable and uncountable, plural red meats)

white meat

antonym(s) of “meats that are dark red when uncooked”

same old same old

antonym(s) of “fresh, inspiring, or inflammatory topics or information”

Meats such as beef that are dark red in colour when uncooked.

To mention Bishop Manning's name in a city room is equivalent to telling the city editor that a rip-roaring good story is brewing. A bishop for almost ten years, he has provided the hungry presses of New York with more red meat than Al Capone, Aimee Semple McPherson, Billy Sunday, 'Legs' Diamond, Albert Einstein, Charles Augusts Lindbergh, Texas Guinan, or Nicholas Murray Butler.

1931, Robert G.M. Neville, "Prima Donnas in the Pulpit," Forum and Century, June (retrieved 10 Apr. 2021)

“Keep it up,” urged Truman. “You’re doing a great job for the country and, incidentally, providing me with red meat for campaign speeches.”

1950, Drew Pearson, Washington Merry-Go-Round, “Trust-Buster Truman”, May 1, 1950 (syndicated, e.g., Prescott Evening Courier, May 1, 1950, p. 4)

Given the fiery tone of the conference, Anita Hill's speech must have come as a disappointment. She threw no red meat to the audience.

1992 October 27, John Leo, “Hill's Potential Stunted By Gender-Focused Politics”, in Seattle Times, retrieved 2010-01-07:

The decision to press ahead with the rationalisation, while there is still uncertainty about the bank's strategic direction, gives the City some red meat to chew on.

1999 May 21, Alex Brummer, “Sir Peter throws the City meat to chew on”, in guardian.co.uk, retrieved 2010-01-07:

On environmental regulation, taxes and other topics that are red meat to economic conservatives, Mr. Bush has delivered.

2002 July 10, Richard W. Stevenson, “Bush's Dance: Moral Outrage Without Pain to Loyalists”, in New York Times, retrieved 2010-01-07:

The passage, red meat for phone-ins and columnists ever since, argued less politely for an improvement in our national work ethic: […

2012 August 22, Andy Beckett, “Britannia Unchained: the rise of the new Tory right”, in The Guardian:

Sunak seems so scared of his party's swivel-eyed right wing that he has been panicked into focusing all new legislation on perceived 'red meat' issues which he hopes the Tory right will support.

2023 May 31, Nigel Harris, “Comment: GBR now! We have no Plan B”, in RAIL, number 984, page 3:

(uncountable, politics, idiomatic) Fresh, inspiring, or inflammatory topics or information.


meals on wheels

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A service that delivers food to those unable to cook for themselves, such as the elderly and people with disabilities.


meals on wheels

Meals on wheels are served at noon on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Twenty-four volunteers delivered approximately 1,000 meals in 1989, for an average of about 6 or 7 clients per day.

1992, Gallatin National Forest (N.F.), East Boulder Mine Project:


mixed drink

I like gin and tonic as a mixed drink, but I really prefer beer.

An alcoholic drink made from one or more kinds of liquor mixed with other ingredients.


afterings

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(by extension) The last of any substance that is of a poorer quality than the earlier substance, e.g. the dregs of coffee.

Neige

the last of any substance that is of a poorer quality than the earlier substance


aftertaste

A taste of something that persists when it is no longer present.

Many people think certain artificial sweeteners have an unpleasant aftertaste.

The persistence of the taste of something no longer present.


spit take

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When the wombat-riding chimp jumped onto the bar, Smith, who had been enjoying a beer, did a massive spit take.

(acting) A take (recorded performance), generally expressing surprise or disbelief, in which the actor in the act of drinking spits out the drink.


castor oil

castor oil (countable and uncountable, plural castor oils)

/ˈkɑː.stə ˌɔɪl/

From its medicinal use in succession to castor.

Every six months, spoonfuls of castor oil were administered to combat constipation.

2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 127:

The pale yellow vegetable oil extracted from the castor bean; used as a laxative and an industrial lubricant.


tallow

tallow (countable and uncountable, plural tallows)

From Middle English talow, talgh, from Old English *tealh, *tealg, (compare Old English tælg, telg (“dye”)), from Proto-West Germanic *talg, from Proto-Germanic *talgaz (compare Dutch talg, German Talg), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“to flow”) (compare Middle Irish delt (“dew”), Old Armenian տեղ (teł, “heavy rain”)).

"I have got a very fine shirt, which I am going to use for my wedding shirt; but there are three tallow stains on it which I want washed out[.]"

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 240:

Nor were the wool prospects much better. The pastoral industry, which had weathered the severe depression of the early forties by recourse to boiling down the sheep for their tallow, and was now firmly re-established as the staple industry of the colony, was threatened once more with eclipse.

1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House Is Built, chapter VIII, section ii:

A hard animal fat obtained from suet, etc.; used in cooking as well as to make candles, soap and lubricants.


tallow

en-verb

tallow (third-person singular simple present tallows, present participle tallowing, simple past and past participle tallowed)

tallows (present singular third-person)
tallowing (participle present)
tallowed (participle past)
tallowed (past)


Brett

Related to Breton, Brittany, and more distantly Briton.

A surname transferred from the nickname meaning "Breton, an inhabitant of Brittany".

A unisex given name transferred from the surname.


Brett

(informal) Brettanomyces, a yeast genus that is used in brewing some beers, and can also affect the taste of wine.


Bud

(rare, chiefly Southern US) A male given name from English.


Burgundy

From Late Latin Burgundia, from Burgundiones (“highlanders”), from Proto-Germanic *bergundijô, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰérǵʰonts (“high, mighty”). Doublet of Bourgogne.
Burgundy (wine) is an abbreviation of the attributive use of the regional name, in Burgundy wine.

der

administrative region
administrative region

A region and former administrative region of France; since 2016, part of the administrative region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.


Coke

en-noun

Coke (countable and uncountable, plural Cokes)

Clipping of Coca-Cola. See coke (“cola”).

(countable, uncountable, informal) Cola-based soft drink; (in particular) Coca-Cola.

The waiter came up, and I ordered a Coke for her—she didn't drink—and a Scotch and soda for myself, but the sonuvabitch wouldn't bring me one, so I had a Coke, too.

1951, J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 168:

'You have a coke and I'll have a beer and we can talk business.'

1958, Franklin Martin, “The Trouble with Mrs. Benton”, in Venus, volume 1, number 1, Garden of Eve Publications, page 16:

(countable, informal) A bottle, glass or can of Coca-Cola or a cola-based soft drink.

(US, especially Southern US, informal) Any soft drink, regardless of type.


Creole

en-adj

Creole (comparative more Creole, superlative most Creole)

more Creole (comparative)
most Creole (superlative)

Variously from French créole, from its source, Spanish criollo, and from its source, Portuguese crioulo, itself probably a diminutive of cria (“person raised in one’s house, servant”), from criar (“to rear, to bring up”), from Latin creō (“I create, make, produce”). Doublet of Criollo and crioulo.

(cooking) Prepared according to a cooking style developed in a Creole area, now especially that of Louisiana, characterised by a mixture of European and African influences.


Florentine

From French florentin, from Latin flōrentīnus.

(cooking) Alternative form of florentine (“biscuit”)


Jack

en-proper noun

Jack (countable and uncountable, plural Jacks)

→ Danish: Jack

→ Swedish: Jack

From Middle English Jackin, Jankin, a popular pet form of John; rarely also an anglicized form of French Jacques (equivalent of Jacob and James). It can be also used as nickname for Jacob. Though the name was originally a pet form, it has become more of an independent name. Equivalent to John + -kin, Jake or Jacques. See also Middle French Hennequin, Jannequin and Middle Dutch Janneken.

An unincorporated community in Dent County, Missouri, United States.


Madeira

From Portuguese Madeira, from Portuguese madeira (“wood”), from Latin materia, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr (“mother”). Doublet of matter.

A city in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States, named after landowner John Madeira.


Manhattan

[mn̩ˈhæʔɪ̃n̩]

From the earlier form Manna-hata recorded by Dutch travelers and settlers, from its name in Unami, the local Algonquian language. That name is usually taken to be a compound of Unami mënatay (“island”) or Munsee munahan (compare Abenaki manahan) and another element.
Based on a report by Anthony Heckewelder that the name Manhattan derives from the wooded area whose trees were suitable for making bows, Goddard explains the early forms Manna-hatta(n) and Mannahachtink as spellings of manaháhtaan "place for gathering the wood to make bows" and a related locative form manaháhteenk. compound of Munsee manah- (gather) + -aht (bow) + -aan (place).

Borough of Manhattan
w:Borough of Manhattan

Manhattan Island
Manhattan Island#English

Ellipsis of Borough of Manhattan.; A borough of New York City, New York, United States, mainly on Manhattan Island, coterminous with New York County.


Marmite

From French marmite (“flesh-pot”). The common-noun sense derives from an advertising campaign featuring the slogan "love it or hate it".

Peyró has the grace to acknowledge that Marmite isn’t really a sauce before dismissing it as “filth”, and moving on to mint sauce.

2020 April 9, Sam Jones, “Spanish writer spills beans on UK's saucy secrets”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(Commonwealth) A brand of sticky, dark brown, strongly flavoured spread based on a yeast extract (a by-product of beer brewing), eaten on toast, in sandwiches, in savoury dishes, etc.


SPAM

Alternative form of spam (“tinned meat product”)


Superman

en-noun

Superman (countable and uncountable, plural Supermen or Supermans)

DC Comics
Dragon Con
Jerry Siegel
Joe Shuster

From super- + man. The character, created by Jerry Siegel (1914–1996) and Joe Shuster (1914–1992), first appeared in DC Comics’ Action Comics #1 dated June 1938. The ice-cream flavor is named in reference to the red, yellow and blue of the superhero's costume.

(uncountable) A flavor of ice cream that is a mixture of blue moon ice cream, and other ice cream flavors that are colored red and yellow.


Tabasco

Of unclear origin. The first definition listed in the 1994 Diccionario enciclopédico de Tabasco was from the Nahuatl name of the area, tlapalco meaning "(place of) damp earth"; wetlands are still extensive in the Mexican state of Tabasco. Other opinions listed were Mayan word tab-uaxac-koh, meaning "(our) lord of eight lions"; others suggest it derives from a Nahuatl word: tla-uashka-ko meaning "place that has an owner", or tlapachtli.
The tabasco pepper was popular in the Mexican state and is named for it; a hot sauce made from that pepper was eaten in the state since the 1650s, and a version was popularized in the United States and elsewhere by the McIlhenny Company of Avery Island, Louisiana, beginning in the 1870s.

A spicy pepper sauce made from tabasco pepper (a chili pepper) with the addition of vinegar and salt.


scrummy

en-adj

scrummy (comparative scrummier, superlative scrummiest)

scrummier (comparative)
scrummiest (superlative)

Of course one did get some scrummy things to eat abroad, that cook did not, somehow, produce at home; and the people looked different […]

1930, Ralph Hale Mottram, The English Miss:

There's an all day menu, with lots of fish dishes such as fish soup, tuna, and monkfish. Pudding might include a scrummy rosemary panacotta.

After mopping up the last bits with my scrummy nan breads we settled down to watch the DVD of "The Two Towers" from "Lord of the Rings" […]

2006, Julie Wilson, Our Spanish Winters:


rummy

en-noun

rummy (usually uncountable, plural rummies)

Unknown, with much speculation. Perhaps related to rum via poker slang, or ultimately from German Ruhm.

A card game with many rule variants, conceptually similar to mahjong.


rummy

en-adj

rummy (comparative rummier, superlative rummiest)

rummier (comparative)
rummiest (superlative)

a rummy flavour

“You say rummy things and you do rummy things. What I mean to say is, you're impulsive.”

1920, P. G. Wodehouse, Jill the Reckless, page 28:


rummy

No one has forgotten Frank Dodd, the crossing guard who went crazy here twelve years ago and killed those women, and they haven't forgotten the dog, either, the one that came down with rabies and killed Joe Camber and the old rummy down the road from him.


china

en-noun

china (countable and uncountable, plural chinas)

From clippings of attributive use of China, q.v., the country in East Asia. In reference to porcelain and porcelain objects, via clipping of chinaware and via this sense of Persian چین (čini) in Persia and India, which influenced the pronunciation (see below). In reference to medicine, via clipping of China root. In reference to flowers, via clipping of China rose. In reference to tea, via clipping of China tea. In Cockney slang, a clipping of china plate as a rhyme of mate (“friend”). In reference to drum cymbals, a clipping of China cymbal and as a genericization of a kind of Zildjian-brand cymbal.

China, saith Manardus, makes a good colour in the face, takes away melancholy, and all infirmities proceeding from cold […].

1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 5, member 1, subsection v:

(uncountable) Synonym of China root, the root of Smilax china (particularly) as a medicine.


macedonia

Try the whole filet mignon, roast duckling, green lasagna, choucroute garni, Cornish hens, and the macedonia of fruit made each day.

1991, New York Magazine, volume 24, number 50, page 94:


morocco

morocco (countable and uncountable, plural moroccos)

From the country name of Morocco, from which this leather was originally imported. Compare maroquin.

The purple morocco cases accompanying the latter contained a handsome set of gold ornaments. Louisa was deeply gratified, even more on Charles's account than on her own; it was such injustice on the part of her family to treat him with such insolence as Lady Anne and Lady Rotheles displayed.

1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 184:

Piers put the letter in an envelope and slipped it into a green morocco-covered volume on the window seat – his sister's diary.

1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 164:

A soft leather, made from goatskin, used especially in bookbinding.


champagne

champagne (countable and uncountable, plural champagnes)

Borrowed from French champagne (“sparkling wine from the Champagne region”), from Champagne (“region and former province of France”), from Late Latin campānia (in full Campānia Rēmēnsis), from campāneus (“of or pertaining to the fields”), from Latin campus (“level ground; field, plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂emp- (“to bend, curve”). The English word is a doublet of campagna (“flat stretch of countryside”) (dated), campaign, and campania.

cava

Spanish sparkling white wine made with the méthode champenoise

crémant

French sparkling wine that isn't from the Champagne region

prosecco

Italian sparkling white wine made by dual fermentation method in vats

spumante

Italian sparkling wine, sometimes made with the méthode champenoise

(countable, uncountable, informal) Any sparkling white wine.

shampanjë

sparkling white wine produced in Champagne


devon

Initial suspicions pointed at both food and water, narrowing down after a while to fritz (devon, as it is known in some states), a popular, bland, processed meat.

1995, The Bulletin, numbers 5953-5959, page 23:

Elsewhere the Roy Slaven signature range of smallgoods – marketed with the shout-out line, ‘Roy: still doing things with meat butchers only dream of!’ − has captured the imagination of an increasingly time-poor community looking for top-shelf short cuts in cuisine solutions. When I last looked, Roy had personally signed nearly 5.9 million salamis, chorizos and devon logs this year.

2008, H. G. Nelson, Sprays: A Collection of Verbal Touch-Ups, page 216:

One of our firm favourites both for the quality and the taste of Ricky Roessler′s smallgoods – and the sheer joy of shopping here. No devon or pastrami, though, just plenty of bratwurst:[…].

2009, Helen Greenwood, John Newton, Sydney 2010: More Than 450 Butchers, Bakers, Food Stores and Chocolate Makers, unnumbered page:

(Australia, Eastern Australia) A type of processed meat sausage.


french

en-verb

french (third-person singular simple present frenches, present participle frenching, simple past and past participle frenched)

frenches (present singular third-person)
frenching (participle present)
frenched (participle past)
frenched (past)

From Middle English French, Frensch, Frensh, from Old English Frencisc (“of the Franks, Frankish, French”), from Franca (“a Frank”). Compare Old High German Franko (“a Frank”), akin to Old English franca (“javelin, spear”), from the use of such weapons by the Franks.

inh

(cooking) To French trim; to stylishly expose bone by removing the fat and meat covering it (as done to a rack of lamb or bone-in rib-eye steak).


bologna

en-noun

bologna (countable and uncountable, plural bolognas)

A seasoned Italian sausage made from beef, pork or veal.


Van der Hum

Susan escorted them to more comfortable seats in the lounge, for coffee and Van der Hum.

1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage, published 1998, page 73:

A South African tangerine-flavoured brandy liqueur.


waragi

waragi (countable and uncountable, plural waragis)

Borrowed from Luganda waragi, itself from English war + gin.

The two men walk down the hill from Makerere University but get no further than Wandegeya, a cacophonous slum of scrap-iron artisans, blaring radios and ragged-trousered clients frequenting matoke and waragi bars.

2016, Maya Jaggi, “Memories of Makerere”, in Literary Review, section 449:

A distilled alcoholic beverage made from bananas or millet, common in Uganda.


matoke

2016, Maya Jaggi, “Memories of Makerere”, in Literary Review, page 449:

Mashed boiled bananas or plantains, a staple food in Uganda.


banoffee

A British cream filling made from banana and toffee.


buckle

buckle (countable and uncountable, plural buckles)

Origin uncertain. Probably from Middle English bokelen (“to arch the body”), from Middle French boucler (“to bulge”, literally “to take the shape of a shield boss”), from the same ultimate origin as Etymology 1 above. In some senses, possibly from buck (“to bend, yield, buckle”) + -le (frequentative suffix).

suf

(countable, Canada, US, baking) Usually preceded by a descriptive word: a cake baked with fresh fruit (often blueberries) and a streusel topping.

murukuorrute-hedelmäkakku

cake baked with fresh fruit and a streusel topping


java

en-noun

java (countable and uncountable, plural javas)

From Java, an island on and near which a particular blend of coffee is made. The US use of the term to refer to any coffee originated in San Francisco, an early center of the US coffee trade.

A blend of coffee imported from the island of Java.

45 have some joe Week's almost over—now bring it home. Austrian researchers found that a cup of java resulted in a 45-minute boost of brain activity in the regions responsible for attention, concentration, and short-term memory.

2008 January–February, “70 Ways to Improve Every Day of the Week”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 135:


capsule

Borrowed from French capsule, from Latin capsula, diminutive of capsa (“box”).

(winemaking) The covering — formerly lead or tin, now often plastic — over the cork at the top of the wine bottle.

bottelseël

winemaking: the covering over the cork at the top of the wine bottle


potato bread

potato bread (countable and uncountable, plural potato breads)

A type of bread made with potatoes, often served shallow-fried as part of a cooked breakfast, common in Northern Ireland and Scotland.

Kartoffelbrot

a type of bread made with potatoes and onions


arabica

arabica (usually uncountable, plural arabicas)

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Coffea arabica#History
Coffea arabica#Taxonomy

See Wikipedia at Coffea arabica § Taxonomy and § History; Europeans learned of coffee from Arab peoples.


decaf

decaf (countable and uncountable, plural decafs)

(informal) A decaffeinated coffee, tea, or soft drink.

ко́фе без кофеи́на

чай, напи́ток


demitasse

From French demi-tasse (literally “half cup”), from demi- (“half-”) + tasse (“cup”).


espresso breve

From Italian espresso and breve (“short”).

Espresso prepared with steamed half and half.


flat white

Coffee at Adelaide airport at 2 p.m., 9 July 2006. In all innocence, I prepared to judge carefully two flat whites. The Melbourne-based franchise chain Hudsons Coffee proclaimed a ‘formidable reputation for consistently making great cups of coffee’, but its airport outlet provided no evidence of this.

2007, Michael Symons, One Continuous Picnic: A Gastronomic History of Australia, 2nd edition, page 323:

‘Two flat whites, please,’ she said to the waiting Kelly. ‘In mugs.’

2009, Michelle Douglas, The Aristocrat and the Single Mom, page 17:

It was during this break that Cole realised that New Zealanders had no idea how to make coffee, serving up flat whites in cups the size of cereal bowls, and suggesting they were caffe lattes.

2009, Colin McLaren, On the Run, page 57:

My boss orders two flat whites. I′ve got to hand it to her, there′s no pretention about a flat white.

2010, Elizabeth Martin, The Coffeeholic and the Cafe, page 111:

A type of white coffee made with espresso coffee and hot milk, similar to a small latte.

馥芮白

white coffee made with espresso and hot milk


frappuccino

en-noun

frappuccino (plural frappuccinos or (rare) frappuccini)

frappuccinos (plural)
frappuccini (plural rare)

French: frappuccino

Spanish: frappuccino

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Blend of frappe + cappuccino.
Genericization of Frappuccino.
From a Starbucks tradename (Frappuccino), from frappe (“a sort of milkshake”) and cappuccino.


macchiato

macchiato (countable and uncountable, plural macchiatos or (rare) macchiati)

macchiatos (plural)
macchiati (plural rare)

/ˌmækiˈɑːtəʊ/

From Italian caffè macchiato (“stained coffee”), from macchiato (“stained, marked”), as the coffee is “marked” with a spot of milk. From Latin maculātus (“stained”), form of macula (“stain”).
Cognate to English macula (“[dark] spot”), French maculé.

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Kadar Al-Jahani glanced around at the rich Romans and the American tourists sipping their macchiati and cappuccini, and smiled.

2004, David A Rollins, Sword of Allah, Sydney, N.S.W.: Pan Macmillan Australia, published 2005, →ISBN, page 109:

This is a city obsessed by coffee. Sydneysiders can tell their arabica from their robusta, their macchiati from their ristretti, and have been known to follow their favourite barista from café to café.

2004, Pat Nourse, “Cafés, Bars & Pubs”, in Cath Phillips et al., editors, Time Out Sydney, 4th edition, London: Ebury Publishing, published 2005, →ISBN, page 126, column 1:

Janie and I are having a couple of macchiati in Carluccio’s and discussing Judith Levine’s best-seller Not Buying It – A Year Without Shopping.

2006 August 12, Rosie Millard, “Leftovers in a Lidl bag – this must be a trip to remember”, in save&spend (The Independent), London, page 6, column 1:

The book’s contents are for the most part the result of scribbling on napkins over numerous macchiati and espressos away from the office at different posts over the years.

2010, Vladimir Alvarado, Eduardo Manrique, “Preface”, in Enhanced Oil Recovery: Field Planning and Development Strategies, Burlington, Mass.: Gulf Professional Publishing, →ISBN, page vii:

Yellow cabs whizzed past, horns blared and people didn’t stop moving as they walked briskly down the sidewalks with their steaming cups of macchiato, mobile phones and iPods.

2014, Holly Martin, chapter 11, in One Hundred Proposals, Richard, Surrey: CARINA, Harlequin (UK) Limited, published 2015, →ISBN, page 190:

Senior Grits will splutter into their macchiati at the very idea that political bias is at play, pointing out that the latest list includes a former female head of the Canadian Association of Police Chiefs (Gwen Boniface) and the ex-head of the Ontario Securities Commission (Howard Wetston).

2016 November 1, John Ivison, “We have no idea who was rejected”, in Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa, Ont., page NP2, column 5:


mochaccino

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(US) The coffee drink cappuccino made with chocolate.


robusta

en-noun

robusta (usually uncountable, plural robustas)

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From New Latin Coffea robusta, from Latin rōbusta, feminine of rōbustus (“strong”).

A plant of the African coffee plant species Coffea canephora.


short black

1999, Donna Hay, Marie Claire: Food Fast, Murdoch Books, Australia, page 118,
For a real kick, add a generous teaspoon of vanilla to a strong short black—great for after dinner.

She took a sip and sputtered.
‘I ordered a short black. What the hell is this?’

2010, Randa Abdel-Fattah, Noah′s Law, page 42:

2010, Elizabeth Martin, Elizabeth Martin, Boomerang Press, Australia, page 179,
I started the week well with my resolution of cutting back on coffee. I had my morning coffee at the Red Raisin, a short black with lunch, an iced tea for my afternoon break, then a pick-me-up before the evening rush.

(Australia, New Zealand) A small cup or glass of espresso coffee.


long black

Up the hill towards the park was the coffee shop where she and Mandy had met, and where Hugh had come daily for his long blacks.

2009, Peter Yeldham, A Distant Shore, unnumbered page:

Once you have had your fill of nightlife, overdosed on cafe lattes or long blacks, seen a show or even cheered on a footy team, it's time to leave the city lights behind and experience Victoria′s wild side.

2010, Lindsay Brown, Justine Vaisutis, Jayne D'Arcy, Katja Gaskell, Australia, Lonely Planet, page 202:

Down two long blacks and you′ll visit the ladies′ room often enough to earn a VIP pass, but, despite its speedy exit, the liquid in your favourite morning caffeine boost still counts towards your hydration goal.

2011, Tiffiny Hall, Weightloss Warrior: How to Win the Battle Within, unnumbered page:

(Australia, New Zealand) A regular-sized cup of espresso coffee without milk, being a diluted version of a short black.


Tia Maria

/ˌtiːə məˈɹiːə/

Brand name, from Spanish Tía María (“Aunt Mary”).


mocha

mocha (countable and uncountable, plural mochas)

From Mocha, Yemen, a port on the Red Sea, from Arabic اَلْمُخَا (al-muḵā), for its role as a major marketplace for coffee during Ottoman rule.
The beans often had a chocolaty flavor, hence by extension came to refer to any coffee with a chocolate flavor, or any mixture of coffee and chocolate flavors, notably coffee with chocolate syrup added.

(countable) A coffee drink with chocolate syrup added, or a serving thereof.

mocha fudge

(historical) An Abyssinian weight, equivalent to a Troy grain.


coffee royal

coffee royal (countable and uncountable, plural coffee royals)

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Coffee with added liqueur, topped with whipped cream.


cupcake

→ Cebuano: kapkeyk

→ Dutch: cupcake

→ Finnish: kuppikakku (calque)

→ German: Cupcake

→ Hebrew: קאפקייק (kápkeik)

→ Japanese: カップケーキ (kappukēki)

→ Korean: 컵케이크 (keopkeikeu)

→ Lao: ກັຜເຄ້ກ (kap khēk)

→ Portuguese: cupcake

→ Russian: капке́йк (kapkéjk)

→ Spanish: cupcake

→ Thai: คัพเค้ก (káp-kéek)

A small cake baked in a usually paper container shaped like a cup, often with icing on top.


napoleon

napoleon (countable and uncountable, plural napoleons)

/nəˈpəʊlɪən/

Borrowed from French Napoléon (“given name, usually in reference to Napoleon Bonaparte”). In reference to coins, via French napoléon (“(slang) a coin that originally had the appearance of Napoleon's face in the obverse”). In reference to guns and possibly cards, in reference to Napoleon III.

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Always an eloquent speaker, Polk became known as the Napoleon of the stump.

2011, Robert Morgan, Lions of the West::

(fashion, obsolete) Clipping of Napoleon boot: a form of topboot worn by officers during the Napoleonic Wars.

Napoleon boot

(historical weaponry) Clipping of Napoleon gun: a 12-pounder cannon first used by the Second French Empire.

наполео́н

12-pounder cannon of the Second French Empire

Fascinated, Miss Manvers thrust aside a garnished plate, took a gulp of the decoction called coffee, and attacked her napoleon.

1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter I (Anarchy), page 373, column 1:

(food, originally US slang) Clipping of Napoleon cake: another name for a millefeuille pastry.


billypot

Scottish, from 19th century. The Australian usage is sometimes claimed to be related to billabong.

(Australia) A billycan used to boil tea.


munchie

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Alternative form: munchy

Another homemade mix treat that any youngster will love—a big jar filled with Country-style Granola. It can be eaten as a “munchie” or a cereal, or used in a recipe for cookies or apple crisp.

1978, Elise W. Manning, “To Cheer a Sick Friend”, in Farm Journal’s Friendly Food Gifts From Your Kitchen, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 38:

As the handler returns to his dog, have him raise his arm with a delicious munchie visible in his hand, so that the dog gets in the habit of looking up.

1984, Barbra Goodman, Pauline Czarnecki, Training Dogs with Common Sense, Galesburg, Ill.: H and S Publications, Inc., →LCCN, page 47:

This will gratify your longing for a tasty munchie.

1993, Jean Paré, Light Recipes (Company’s Coming), Edmonton, Alta.: Company’s Coming Publishing Limited, published 1995, →ISBN, page 20:

Crunchers eat munchies. On one side of the river there are three munchies and three crunchers. All six have to cross the river. There is only one boat and it has room for two only. At no time must two crunchers be left with one munchie or the munchie gets eaten.

1998, Keith Twining, “Cognitive Psychology: How Do We Think?”, in Success in Psychology, London: John Murray, →ISBN, page 205:

We “graze,” moving from one munchie to the next, stopping to chat when we come upon a fellow grazer.

2002, Terry Thompson-Anderson, Texas on the Plate, Fredericksburg, Tex.: Shearer Publishing, →ISBN, page 21:

If it’s true that you have to hit rock bottom before you can begin to climb back up again, then the nadir of my self-inflicted dining misadventures came about in the small hours of one munchie-ridden night.

2005, David Bennun, “Lost in the supermarket”, in British as a Second Language: Travels Among the English, London: Ebury Press, published 2006, →ISBN, page 63:

Creamcheese can be substituted for Brie for an equally tasty munchie.

2006, More Good Thymes in the Kitchen: An Expanded Collection of Recipes from The Thyme Garden, Alsea, Ore.: The Thyme Garden Herb Company, page 30:

Eaten alone as a munchie, added to tonic teas, or in tincture, all these sweet berries are superb.

2022, Rachel Lord, “The Hepato-Biliary System”, in Clinical Herbalism: Plant Wisdom from East and West, St. Louis, Mo.: Elsevier, →ISBN, part IV (Case Histories: Therapeutics and Formulations), page 304, column 2:


danish

en-noun

danish (countable and uncountable, plural danishes)

Etymology tree
English Danish pastry
English danish
Ellipsis of Danish pastry.

etymon

Get me a coffee and a cheese danish.

Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Uh-oh, Principal Gottlieb. Looks like somebody forgot their danish, huh?
Judith Gottlieb: Aw, crap.
Allen Gregory: Three, two, one, and there's the money shot.

2011 Allen Gregory, "1 Night in Gottlieb" (season 1, episode 2)

Danish pastry, light sweet yeast-raised roll usually filled with fruit or cheese.


T-bone steak

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A large beef steak, containing a T-shaped bone.


pope's nose

He took heart and began to mend immediately; and gobbled up all the jelly, and picked the last bone of the chicken—drumsticks, merry-thought, sides’-bones, back, pope’s nose, and all.

1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 7, in The Rose and the Ring:

(idiomatic) The tail end piece of a cooked fowl (chicken, turkey etc.).


joe

en-noun

joe (countable and uncountable, plural joes)

45 have some joe Week's almost over—now bring it home. Austrian researchers found that a cup of java resulted in a 45-minute boost of brain activity in the regions responsible for attention, concentration, and short-term memory.

2008 January–February, “70 Ways to Improve Every Day of the Week”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 135:

Some people say I make the best joe in town. But you know there's a kiosk over on Eighteenth Avenue, not that far from here.

2010, Melody Carlson, A Mile in My Flip-Flops, page 221:


shish kebab

shish kebab (countable and uncountable, plural shish kebabs)

/ˌʃɪʃkəˈbæb/

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From Turkish şiş kebap, from şiş (“skewer”) + kebap (“kebab”).

“That’s terrible,” Mel said. “That’s a terrible thing, Nicky. I guess they’d just lay there and wait until somebody came along and made a shish kebab out of them.”

1981, Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, New York: Knopf, →ISBN, page 149:

A dish made of small pieces of meat, with or without vegetables, which are skewered on a wooden or metal stick and roasted in an oven or over an open fire.

sate

but this is usually smaller and lacks vegetables


alexander

/ˌælɪɡˈzændɚ/

[ˌælɪɡˈzeəndɚ]

[ˌælɪɡˈzeəndə]

/ˌalɪɡˈzɑːndə/

Unknown. Apparently from either the given name or the surname Alexander, but the connection is unclear. Attested since the early 20th century.

Alexander cocktail
3/4 jigger rye whiskey.
1/4 jigger Benedictine.
Twist orange peel on top. Stir.

1914, Jacques Straub, Drinks, Hotel Monthly Press, page 17:

Alexander Cocktail
1/3 Creme de Cocoa
1/3 Gin
1/3 Sweet Cream

1933, Julien Proskauer, What'll You Have ?: A Not Too Dry Text Book about Cocktails, →OCLC, page 80:

A cocktail made of cognac or gin, white crème de cacao, and light cream.


kugel

kugel (countable and uncountable, plural kugels)

→ Japanese: クーゲル (kūgeru)

Borrowed from Yiddish קוגל (kugl) (referring to the inflated appearance of some puddings), from Middle High German kugel (“ball; globe”) (modern German Kugel (“ball; (astronomy) celestial body, orb; (geometry) sphere”)); further etymology uncertain.

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Many cooks prepare one kugel in honor of the Sabbath. Some families serve extra kugels in honor of a Yom Tov or Rosh Chodesh that falls on a Sabbath. Their idea is to serve as many kugels as there are Torah scrolls read in the synagogue. Kugel recipes run the gamut from sweet to salty, soft to crisp, bland to sharp. They may be baked in the oven or pan-fried on the range.

1988, “Evening and Morning Meals: Menu Plan”, in The Taste of Shabbos: The Complete Sabbath Cookbook, 2nd edition, Jerusalem, Israel: Aish HaTorah Women’s Organization, →ISBN, page 56:

In medieval Poland, kugel covered a range of preparations baked in shallow or deep (usually round) pans without reference to type of ingredients or elaborateness of preparation. The fancier deep-dish versions of kugel resembled bread puddings and were made almost exclusively for Chanukah. However, kugel also provided the practical advantage of being made in advance and then kept warm overnight for serving on Shabbos, when cooking was forbidden. Kugel made with shredded turnips is one of those old Sabbath dishes.

1999, William Woys Weaver, “Medieval Recipes in the Polish Style”, in Maria Dembińska, translated by Magdalena Thomas, edited by William Woys Weaver, Food and Drink in Medieval Poland: Rediscovering a Cuisine of the Past, revised edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 184:

With the dipsy-doodle, the kit and caboodle / The truth is brutal, your grandma's kugel

2004 June 14, Michael Louis Diamond, Adam Horovitz, Adam Yauch [et al.] (lyrics and music), “Hey Fuck You”, in To the 5 Boroughs, performed by the Beastie Boys, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.: Capitol Records, →OCLC:

Our mother wanted us and loved us dearly. Her chicken and fish, her stews, her meatloaves, her lasagna and kugels and everything else were flavorful in their own, unadulterated way.

2013, Elinor Lipman, “Julia’s Child”, in I Can‘t Complain: (All Too) Personal Essays, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, pages 5–6:

A traditional savoury or sweet Jewish dish consisting of a baked pudding of pasta, potatoes, or rice, with vegetables, or raisins and spices.


kir

en-noun

kir (countable and uncountable, plural kirs)

Borrowed from French kir, named after Félix Kir, mayor of Dijon.

A cocktail made with a measure of crème de cassis topped up with white wine.


evening primrose oil

Oil, extracted from the seeds of the evening primrose, used as a complementary medicine (for example, to relieve premenstrual stress).

月見草油 /月见草油

oil from the seeds of the evening primrose


extra virgin

Of a fine grade of unrefined virgin olive oil.


virgin olive oil

virgin olive oil (countable and uncountable, plural virgin olive oils)

An olive oil obtained from the first pressing of the olives.


tatty cake

(Scotland) Alternative spelling of tattie cake


piccalilli

Hannah Glasse
The Art of Cookery
piccalilli

First attested in the from 1845. Unknown. Presumably variant of pickle, which itself is from Middle English pekille (“spicy sauce served with meat or fish”) or pikel, from Middle Dutch pekel (“brine”); perhaps influenced by dialectal variants.
Alternatively, may be related to paco lilla (“ginger-spiced pickle”), in 18th century British cookbook The Art of Cookery (1747–1843; e.g., 1805 edition) by Hannah Glasse (1708–1770), also referred to as “Indian pickles”, which suggests an Indo-Aryan source; compare mulligatawny, of Tamil origin, which also features turmeric prominently, and curry, of Tamil or Middle English origin (or blend). No relation to Piccadilly.

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There are, however, exceptions. Piccalilli – aka “mustard with other stuff”, aka “that noble Anglo-Indian spiritual creation” – is great with ham, he conceeds^([sic]).

2020 April 9, Sam Jones, “Spanish writer spills beans on UK's saucy secrets”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(British) A yellow pickle relish made from cauliflower, vegetable marrow, and other vegetables, pickled with vinegar, salt, sugar, and spiced with mustard, turmeric, and other spices.


frankfurt

From German Frankfurt. Compare frankfurter.

Sample of frankfurts procured from Stanley Kwiatkowski, Grand Rapids, Mich. Contains excessive amount of cereal.

1919, Michigan Office of Dairy and Food Commissioner, Annual report of the Dairy and Food Commissioner of the State of Michigan, volume 25, page 81:

Frankfurts of the highest quality are prepared generally from a mixture of approximately half beef and half pork.

1942, Robert Byron Hinman, Robert Bernard Harris, The Story of Meat, page 137:

As a kid in the 50s, (before we became infested with the current mish-mash of liquorice allsorts) pork fritz, devon, sliced ham, frankfurts, pork sausages...were all about as common a staple as you care to name. Even the Italians and Greeks of the time ate (and continue to eat) the stuff!!

2003 June 10, smithxpj, “Ham banned in Broadmeadows”, in aus.consumers (Usenet):

(US, Australia) A frankfurter; a hot dog sausage.


Adam's ale

Attested 1643. Reference to the only drink available to Adam, the first man in the biblical tradition, while in Eden.

[T]hey have beene ſhut up in priſons and dungeons lying on the cold ground, ſtones or boards without beds, ſtraw, fire or any the leaſt refreſhment; allowed onely a poore pittance of Adams''' Ale, and ſcarce a penny bread a day to ſupport their lives, though their friends would provide it for them; [...]

1643, William Prynne, “The Soveraigne Power of Parliaments & Kingdomes. […]”, in The Soveraigne Power of Parliaments and Kingdomes: […], London: […] Michael Sparke Senior, →OCLC, page 32:

She had loaded Floss into the basket, tied a sugarbag containing necessities—sketch pad, pencils, corned beef sandwiches wrapped in newsprint, a bottle of water from the garden tap, the best water, the clearest, Adam's ale — to the frame of her bicycle and set off, Floss sits up in the basket, looking ahead, though of course she can't see, but her nose is up, her world a dizzy palette of smell, as clear and bright as it is to Sybil, pedalling carefully along the river and down Fitzgerald Avenue towards the hills.

2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, →ISBN, page 59:


tasseography

A macaronic blend of French tasse (“cup”) and -graphy (“writing”).

Tasseography can be a very accurate means of seeing the patterns and choices playing out in your life.

2008, Colette Baron-Reid, Messages From Spirit: The Extraordinary Power of Oracles, Omens, and Signs, page 145:

Another activity option is tasseography—the art of reading tea leaves.

2008, Sabrina Hill, Joni Russell, The Everything Baby Shower Book: Throw a Memorable Event for Mother-to-Be, page 125:

Although tasseography is commonly associated with Gypsy fortunetellers, the tradition of tea-leaf reading arose independently in Asia, the Middle East, and Ancient Greece. Modern tasseography has also been associated with the Scottish, Irish, and cultures of Eastern Europe.

2011, Maureen Hancock, The Medium Next Door: Adventures of a Real-Life Ghost Whisperer, page 15:

Divination with tea leaves or coffee grounds.


pierogi

en-noun

pierogi (plural pierogi or pierogies or pierogis)

pierogi (plural)
pierogies (plural)
pierogis (plural)

Borrowed from Polish pierogi, the plural of pieróg (“dumpling”), which ultimately is derived from Proto-Slavic *pirъ (“party”). Unrelated to Turkish börek. Doublet of pirogi (from Russian), pirohy (from Czech and Slovak), and pyrohy/pedaheh (from Ukrainian).

(Canada, US) A square- or crescent-shaped dumpling of unleavened dough, stuffed with sauerkraut, cheese, mashed potatoes, cabbage, onion, meat, or any combination of these, or with a fruit filling.

波兰饺子 (Bōlán jiǎozi, literally “Polish dumpling(s)”)


vinous

en-adj

vinous (comparative more vinous, superlative most vinous)

more vinous (comparative)
most vinous (superlative)

From Late Middle English vinous, vinose (“consisting of, containing, or made of wine”), from Latin vīnōsus (“fond of wine; wine-flavoured”), from vīnum (“wine”) + -ōsus (adjective-forming suffix meaning ‘full of, prone to’).

روحاني

pertaining to or having the characteristics of wine

The bride, in passing down stairs, dressed for her journey, found Tom waiting for her—flushed, either with his feelings, or the vinous part of the breakfast.

1854, Charles Dickens, “Husband and Wife”, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC, book the first (Sowing), pages 127–128:

en:of wine or like wine
en:involving the use of wine

Pertaining to or having the characteristics of wine.

Near-synonyms: winelike, wine-dark, wine-blue

[...] François' quick eye detected the presence of some very small birds moving among the blossoms. They were at once pronounced to be humming-birds, and of that species known as the "ruby-throats" (Trochilus rolubris), so called, because a flake of a beautiful vinous colour under the throat of the males exhibits, in the sun, all the glancing glories of the ruby.

1853, [Thomas] Mayne Reid, “The Shrike and the Humming-birds”, in The Young Voyageurs, or The Boy Hunters in the North, London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton and Co., →OCLC, page 268:

Day was breaking, and the sheets of talc in the walls were filled with a vinous colour.

1904, Gustave Flaubert, “Tanith”, in Salammbô: A Romance of Ancient Carthage […], volume III, Chicago, Ill.: Simon P. Magee, →OCLC, page 99:

en:of wine or like wine
en:of the colour of red wine

The man who firſt tranſplanted the grape of Burgundy to the Cape of Good Hope (obſerve he was a Dutchman) never dreamt of drinking the ſame wine at the Cape, that the ſame grape produced upon the French mountains—he was too phlegmatic for that—but undoubtedly he expected to drink ſome ſort of vinous liquor; [...]

1768, Mr. Yorick [pseudonym; Laurence Sterne], “Preface in the Desobligeant”, in A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, volume I, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, […], →OCLC, pages 29–30:

Yet fat and vinous old Jack Falstaff, whose portraiture is the happiest hit in all the varied range of English comedy, must be sought for in other scenes.

1869, William Francis Collier, “William Shakspere”, in A History of English Literature, in a Series of Biographical Sketches, London, Edinburgh, New York, N.Y.: T[homas] Nelson and Sons, […], →OCLC, page 146:

Curiosity induced him to ask the wild-eyed vinous old man if he knew the lady.

1883, Fun, London: Published for the proprietors, →OCLC, page 168, column 1:

Old Simon the Soaker now keeps a rare store / Of Malmsey and Malvoisie / In tub-fuls of hundreds of litres or more, / For a vinous old soul is he—e, / A porous old so—ul is he; [...]

1898 July 2, “The New Dipsomania”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume CXIV, London: Published at the office, 85, Fleet Street, →OCLC, stanza I, page 309:

It is one of the most trying things about this life, this necessity of laughing uproariously when vinous old men say things that are dirty but not funny; else one is written down as a prig.

1899 August 25, Raymond Asquith, “Letter to H. T. Baker”, in John Jolliffe, editor, Raymond Asquith: Life and Letters, London: Collins, published 1980, →ISBN:

She was found wounded and amnesic by a vinous old farmer who, charitable and eccentric (or just radiantly bonkers), nursed her back to health in some ramshackle barn or outbuilding of his after the local Gendarmerie had investigated, photographed, swept up and hosed down the crash scene.

2016, Christopher Chase Walker, The Visitor, Winchester, Hampshire: Cosmic Egg Books, →ISBN:

The vinous Greek to whom he had address'd / His question, much too merry to divine / The questioner, fill'd up a glass of wine, [...]

1821 August 8, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, Cantos III, IV, and V, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto III, stanza XLII, page 24:

"Come, come," said James, putting his hand to his nose and winking at his cousin with a pair of vinous eyes, "no jokes, old boy; no trying it on on me. [...]"

1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “James Crawley’s Pipe is Put Out”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 305:

Once she had been kissed by a man in wine (the memory recalled Lady Tynewood and the parties she gave) and she had never forgotten the hated smell of that vinous breath.

1927, Edgar Wallace, “The Honeymoon”, in The Man Who Was Nobody, London: Ward, Lock & Co., →OCLC; republished Looe, Cornwall: House of Stratus, 2001, →ISBN, page 110:

In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs. Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of this retreat.

1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter IV, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the first (The Maiden), pages 40–41:

[S]he threw up her hands, sank into a chair and went off into a deep vinous sleep.

1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 3, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 51:

Gripped by a vinous pentecost, I launched into speech [...]

1928, Robert Byron, “Society”, in The Station: Travels to the Holy Mountain of Greece, London: Duckworth, →OCLC; reprinted London, New York, N.Y.: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, I.B. Tauris and Co., 2011, →ISBN, page 125:

It was a moment of bathos and anticlimax; a poor sequel to my smoke-ringed, vinous reverie on American grandeur the previous night.

2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir, London: Atlantic Books, →ISBN; republished London: Atlantic Books, 2011, →ISBN, page 254:


frankfurter

From German Frankfurter, the demonym of Frankfurt. Specifically, a reference to Frankfurt-am-Main.

(UK, US, Canada) A moist sausage of soft, even texture and flavor, often made from mechanically recovered meat or meat slurry.


savory

en-adj

savory (comparative savorier, superlative savoriest)

savorier (comparative)
savoriest (superlative)

From the Middle English savory, savourie, from Old French savouré, from Old French savourer, from Late Latin sapōrāre, from Latin sapor (“taste, flavour”), from sapiō, sapere (“taste of, have a flavour of”).

The fine restaurant presented an array of savory dishes; each was delicious.

The mushrooms, meat, bread, rice, peanuts and potatoes were all good savory foods.


savory

On Friday the pastry chef Pichet Ong will open his own cafe, with sweets and savories served at tables and a counter.

2007 April 18, Florence Fabricant, “Off the Menu”, in New York Times:


savory

en-noun

savory (countable and uncountable, plural savories)

Wikispecies
From Middle English saverey, possibly from Old English sæþerie, from Latin satureia, influenced by or via Old French savereie.

Any of several Mediterranean herbs, of the genus Satureja, grown as culinary flavourings.

the name is also used for other similar herbs


americano

americano (countable and uncountable, plural americanos)

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1970s, from Italian (caffè) americano or American Spanish americano (“American (coffee)”). Cocktail sense from Italian americano.

“No, the coffee. Do you want a cup of Americano?” I groaned. Welcome to Europe. “Can't I just get a cup of regular coffee? A little cream, a little sugar?” […] “An Americano is a shot of espresso with hot water added.” “I don't know why they call it Americano. No one in America drinks espresso and hot water.”

2017, Ronald H. Balson, The Trust, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 16:

And he drank americano. That was interesting. Was he lactose intolerant or did he simply prefer his coffee black?

2018, Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, Karen White, “Chapter 4: Sarah”, in The Glass Ocean, William Morrow, →ISBN:

A drink made of espresso coffee diluted with hot water.

美式咖啡

drink made of espresso diluted with hot water

ອາເມລິກາໂນ

ʼā mē li kā nō

The waiters wore striped waistcoats and green baize aprons. Bond ordered an Americano and examined the sprinkling of overdressed customers, mostly from Paris he guessed, who sat talking with focus and vivacity, creating that theatrically clubbable atmosphere of l'heure de l'aperitif.

1953, Ian Fleming, Casino Royale, page 30:

An Americano is made of Campari, sweet vermouth, and soda water over ice in a highball glass. […] The drink was so popular among Americans visiting Italy at the turn of the last century that it was named after them.

2009, Eric Felten, How's Your Drink?: Cocktails, Culture, and the Art of Drinking Well, Agate Publishing, →ISBN, pages 37–38:

A cocktail made with Campari, sweet vermouth, and club soda.


taco

Borrowed from Mexican Spanish taco (“light lunch”, literally “stopper, plug, wad”).

bor

(cooking) A Mexican snack food made of a small tortilla (soft- or hard-shelled) filled with ingredients such as meat, rice, beans, cheese, diced vegetables, and salsa.


taquito

She preferred taquitos to regular tacos because she found them less messy.

A fried corn or flour tortilla, filled usually with beef or chicken and cheese, rolled up, and dipped in a form of salsa, or guacamole.


taqueria

/ˌtɑkəˈɹiːə/

But as soon as I walked past the nearest taqueria, as I felt the grease settle on my skin, and heard the scrape of spatulas on the grill, as soon as I ordered and felt the immensity of my relief—I think I knew.

2023, C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey, Hutchinson Heinemann, page 50:

(chiefly US) A restaurant specializing in tacos and other Mexican food.


cream of tartar

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potassium bitartrate
potassium bitartrate

(organic chemistry) Potassium hydrogen tartrate (also called potassium bitartrate), a byproduct of wine manufacture, used in baking powder and in cooking to stabilize beaten egg whites.


baking powder

en-noun

baking powder (countable and uncountable, plural baking powders)

A dry leavening agent used in baking; a mixture of baking soda, an acid (often cream of tartar) and starch to keep it dry; when wetted, carbon dioxide is released.


leavening agent

leavening agent (plural leavening agents)

Any organism or substance added to a food product (such as dough or batter) that makes it rise when cooked.


charlotte

Borrowed from French charlotte, or possibly from Middle English charlet, charlette (“dish made from eggs, meat, milk, etc.”), probably from Old French char laitée (“meat with milk”).

der

A charlotte consists of a mold lined with buttered bread, filled with a fruit mixture and baked. […] A savory charlotte, also made with a bread lining, is an excellent way to dress up ratatouille, especially if picked up from a catering shop.

1995 November 26, Florence Fabricant, “Sweet Charlottes for Dessert”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A dessert consisting of sponge cake filled with fruit, and cream or custard.


dosa

I carried the Mongoose's bags to the right carriage of the train, then went to a stall and bought a dosa, wrapped in paper, for him.

2008, Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger, Atlantic, published 2009, page 141:

These condiments are provided as something for you to dip your dosa into. The dosa wrap itself has a slight tang to it, as it is a fermented bread made from rice and lentils, and is light and delicious.

2012, Meg Cotner, Food Lovers' Guide to Queens, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 173:

The dosas all came with coconut chutney and sambar, a lentil broth — good dipping condiments.

2013 June 14, Mary Jo Murphy, “Dosas, Big and Bigger”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A type of thin south Indian pancake made from fermented lentils and rice blended with water, typically served with chutney or sambar.


iftar

en-noun

iftar (countable and uncountable, plural iftars)

bor

Arabic إِفْطَار (ʔifṭār)

Iftars can be social events, where people congregate to eat and socialize.

On a recent afternoon in the Tunisian coastal city of Sfax, as shoppers hurried around a market buying food and drink for that evening’s iftar meal, a small group of men from sub-Saharan Africa gathered near a stall selling phone accessories.

2023 March 30, Simon Speakman Cordall, “Tunisian morgue overflows as more people attempt risky sea crossing”, in The Guardian:

(Islam) The evening meal (of dates) that breaks each day's fast during Ramadan.

iftaar

(Islam) the evening meal (of dates) that breaks each day's fast during Ramadan


suhur

Borrowed from Arabic سَحُور (saḥūr), literally "of the dawn".

(Islam) A pre-dawn breakfast during the Ramadan fasting.


Horlicks

en-noun

Horlicks (countable and uncountable, plural Horlicks)

Sir James Horlick, 1st Baronet
William Horlick

The name of the drink, first sold as "Horlick's Infant and Invalids Food", is derived from the surname of its developers, James (1844–1921) and William Horlick (1846–1936); equivalent to Horlick + -'s (possessive marker). The term later became a euphemism for bollocks (“mess; to make a mess of”).

When the theatres turned out, people flocked back for their Horlickses and cocoas. Because of the summer visitors, we were open till one o'clock in the morning.

1990, Barbara Hanrahan, A Chelsea Girl, Ulverscroft Large Print Books, →ISBN:

Kathy, drinking Horlicks and laughing about the impossibility of custard (she could not cook – she could not even stir), and obsessive about everything, found out for me that Dylan Thomas had invented a fantasy[…]

2016 December 6, Jeanette Winterson, Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days, Grove/Atlantic, Inc., →ISBN:

It did seem very odd though, drinking Horlicks in the middle of the day. From then on, first thing in the morning, after all meals, and last thing at night, Ruth made me a big mug of Horlicks. Every day, Horlicks. All day, Horlicks.

2021 March 10, Helen Jones, I Am a Real Person, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:

(chiefly British) A hot bedtime drink made with malted milk.


flinty

en-adj

flinty (comparative flintier or more flinty, superlative flintiest or most flinty)

flintier (comparative)
more flinty (comparative)
flintiest (superlative)
most flinty (superlative)

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(wine) Having a taste characteristic of certain white wines, especially Chablis, supposed to evoke the sensation of flint striking steel.

flintig

Having a taste characteristic of certain white wines.


mustard oil

The hot pungent oil expressed from mustard seeds; used sparingly as a food dressing.

allyl isothiocyanate
allyl isothiocyanate

(organic chemistry) The essential oil allyl isothiocyanate, also obtained from mustard seeds.