stubbie

2006, Tom Conyers, Morse Code for Cats, 2008, Zeus Publications, Australia, page 59,
Joe drank his lone stubbie of light beer like it was poison – which isn′t far wrong.

Every time you throw your Coke can or your stubbie, or leave your McDonald′s wrapper on the beach, you spoil our beautiful pristine coastline.

2002, Patsy McCarthy, Caroline Hatcher, Presentation Skills: The Essential Guide for Students, Australia: Allen & Unwin, page 99:

The communal area is constantly cruisey, whether you′re slung low in a hammock or sipping your BYO stubbie in the cool, cushioned area with a frayed map in hand.

2009, Justine Vaisutis, Australia, Lonely Planet, page 384:

In PNG we would buy beer wholesale at around 10 cents per stubbie or can, and sell it to ourselves at 20 cents per stubbie or can.

2011, S. J. Waddell, Exploration Days: An a to Z of Ways of Dying in Mineral Exploration, Xlibris, page 76:

(Australia, New Zealand) A small beer bottle with a distinctive squat shape; a stubby.


schooner

Attested ca. 1715, of uncertain origin. Said to be derived from dialectal scoon (“to skim over water”). Compare also shunt (“to cause to move (suddenly)”).

Boycott any pub that bans work clothes, allows customers to reserve tables or only sells beer in schooners. That is less a pub, more a private members’ club.

2018 June 6, Tony Naylor, “The new rules of pub etiquette: don't flirt with bar staff or steal the glasses”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(UK) A glass for drinking a large measure of sherry.

Foaming schooners of beer grew ever larger and more numerous as the crimson February suns went to their rest.

a. 1964, Arthur Upfield, “Fozen Pumps”, in Kees de Hoog, editor, Up and Down Australia: Short Stories Selected by Kees de Hoog, published 2008, page 67:

And needless to say, the Western Australia row will eventually be filled in as well, though not before drinking a schooner of the amber nectar in Perth.

2004, Ken Ewell, Voyages of Discovery: A Manly Adventure in the Lands Down Under, page 94:

For a true Adelaide experience, head for the bar and order a schooner of Coopers, the local brew, or a glass of SA′s impressive wine.

2009, Charles Rawlings-Way, Meg Worby, Lindsay Brown, Paul Harding, Central Australia: Adelaide to Darwin, Lonely Planet, page 59:

(Australia) A glass of beer, of a size which varies between states (Wikipedia).

(US) A large goblet or drinking glass, used for lager or ale (Wikipedia).


lunch meat

en-noun

lunch meat (countable and uncountable, plural lunch meats)

→ Czech: lančmít

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Any processed, prepackaged molded meat served sliced for consumption in sandwiches or salads.


louche

en-verb

louche (third-person singular simple present louches, present participle louching, simple past and past participle louched)

louches (present singular third-person)
louching (participle present)
louched (participle past)
louched (past)

Certain anise-flavored drinks have developed a mystique based on the exotic appearance of louching.

In distillation, the first few liters of absinthe to come out of the still are called the head; the last few liters are the tail. The head and tail don't have enough alcohol to keep the oils in suspension, so the absinthe comes out of the still louched.

2010, Paul Owens, Paul Nathan, Dave Herlong, The Little Green Book of Absinthe: An Essential Companion with Lore, Trivia, and Classic and Contemporary Cocktails, New York, N.Y.: Perigee Books, →ISBN:

I found a little corner to stand in and pretended to sip my own louched absinthe.

2012, Heather E. Hutsell, chapter 1, in Blood Mettle, [s.l.]: Fatty Baby Cat Publishing, →ISBN, page 2:

Ah, Mr. Sizemore, the green fairy is best prepared carefully and slowly to appreciate its full potential. Simply fill the fountain with iced water, place your glass of absinthe below the spigot with a single sugar cube placed over a slotted spoon and adjust the tap to your desired flow. The cold water will gradually dissolve the sugar and mix with the absinthe in a process known as louching.

2015, Jason Sizemore, For Exposure: The Life and Times of a Small Press Publisher, Lexington, Ky.: Apex Publishers, →ISBN:

(transitive) To make (an alcoholic beverage, e.g. absinthe or ouzo) cloudy by mixing it with water, due to the presence of anethole. This is known as the ouzo effect.


nugget

en-noun

nugget (countable and uncountable, plural nuggets)

→ Portuguese: nugget

Uncertain. Possibly from a rebracketed alteration of an ingot as a ni(n)got. Alternatively, likely a diminutive of dialectal nug (“lump, block”) + -et.

By now, we hope you have said “no” to processed nuggets and fingers. Instead, how about taking some real chicken, tossing it with real eggs, a little tangy mustard, and a crunchy quinoa coating?


fortune cookie

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I read my future in a fortune cookie / Without any safety procedure in mind

2006, “Courtesy Laughs”, in It's Never Been Like That, performed by Phoenix:

“The Chinese restaurant code. It states that the fortune cookie is not to be taken lightly. Now what do you mean to be doing with this fortune cookie anyway, lad?”

2009, Jon Paul Fiorentino, Stripmalling, ECW Press, →ISBN, page 23:

A type of hollow snack, common in westernized Chinese cuisine: a crisp sugary wafer containing a message on a narrow strip of paper, generally with a wise or vaguely prophetic message or random numbers usable in a lottery printed on the paper.


alt

liquid alts

alternative investment
alternative investment

(finance) An alternative investment or alternative fund.


rocket

Borrowed from French roquette, from Italian ruchetta, diminutive of ruca, from Latin eruca. Cognate to arugula, rucola, eruca, roquette.

Eruca vesicaria
Eruca vesicaria#Translingual

A leaf vegetable of species Eruca sativa or Eruca vesicaria.


eggnog

eggnog (countable and uncountable, plural eggnogs)

American English c. 1775 (although drinks like it are attested far earlier, e.g. posset, of which a monastic Christmas recipe used eggs), from egg + nog.
The second element is uncertain and long-debated; prominent claims include Norfolk dialect nog (“strong ale”), or a clipping of noggin (“small, carved wooden mug used to serve alcohol”) (q.v.). Other hypotheses include a variant of grog (“rum-and-water cocktail”), and descent from Old Norse (compare wassail).

A beverage based on milk, eggs, sugar, and nutmeg; often made alcoholic with rum, brandy, or whisky; popular at Christmas.


dowdy

en-verb

dowdy (third-person singular simple present dowdies, present participle dowdying, simple past and past participle dowdied)

dowdies (present singular third-person)
dowdying (participle present)
dowdied (participle past)
dowdied (past)

Late 16th century. Origin uncertain: probably literally “little poorly dressed woman,” formed from doue, “poorly dressed woman.”
Possibly also related to the Scots dow, meaning to "fade".

Topping the apples with squares of dough allowed steam to escape during baking, preventing the apples from overcooking. Dowdying the crust partway through created the dessert's sweet finish.

2021, America's Test Kitchen, The Complete Cook’s Country TV Show Cookbook, page 743:

(cooking, transitive) To press the crust into the filling during baking, to allow the juices to caramelize on top.


piping

en-noun

piping (countable and uncountable, plural pipings)

(cooking) Icing extruded from a piping bag.


lactate

en-verb

lactate (third-person singular simple present lactates, present participle lactating, simple past and past participle lactated)

lactates (present singular third-person)
lactating (participle present)
lactated (participle past)
lactated (past)

Borrowed from Latin lactātus, perfect passive participle of lactō (“to suckle, give suck, contain milk”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from lac (“milk”), cognate to Ancient Greek γάλα (gála, “milk”).

(intransitive) To secrete or produce milk.


lactate

From lactic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).

(chemistry) Any salt or ester of lactic acid.


lactic

From Latin lactis (“of milk”), genitive form of lac (“milk”), with the suffix -ic.

lactic fermentation

In the morning the blood was crowded with commuters, the glucose peons, lactic and ureic sanitation workers, hemoglobinous deliverymen carrying loads of freshly brewed oxygen in their dented vans, […]

2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:

(biochemistry) Relating to, or producing, lactic acid.


syrupy

en-adj

syrupy (comparative syrupier, superlative syrupiest)

syrupier (comparative)
syrupiest (superlative)

Having the taste or consistency of syrup.

xaropós

having the taste or consistency or syrup


reduction

en-noun

reduction (countable and uncountable, plural reductions)

From Middle English reduccion, a borrowing from Old French reducion, from Latin reductiō, reductiōnem.

(cooking) The process of rapidly boiling a sauce to concentrate it.

kokoon keittäminen

cooking: process of concentrating a sauce


chuck wagon

From chuck + wagon; chuck was cowboy slang for food.

(US, historical) A wagon equipped with food and cooking utensils, and used to prepare meals, as on a ranch, in a lumber camp, or during a cattle drive in the latter part of the 19th century.

A sandwich composed of a piece of chicken-fried steak or a breaded beef patty, with typical toppings being lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise.


pastry

pastry (countable and uncountable, plural pastries)

From Middle English pastre, pastri, from pastree (variant of pasterie, from Old French pastaierie and Medieval Latin pasteria, from Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá)) or paste + -ri (modern paste + -ry).

That pastry shop sells not just pastries, but all kinds of baked goods.

(countable) A baked food item made from flour and fat pastes such as pie crust; also tarts, bear claws, napoleons, puff pastries, etc.


helping

helping (countable and uncountable, plural helpings)

From Middle English helping, helpinge, helpynge, equivalent to help + -ing.

She eagerly took a second helping of ice cream.

(countable) A portion or serving, especially of food that one takes for oneself, or to which one helps oneself.


French cut

(cooking) Sliced lengthwise, making strips long and thin (e.g. French cut green beans, French [cut] fries). cf. julienne.


oatmeal

oatmeal (usually uncountable, plural oatmeals)

From Middle English otemele, from ote (“oat”) + mele (“meal, coarse-ground grains”). Equivalent to oat + meal.

A breakfast cereal made from rolled oats, cooked in milk and/or water.

вівся́не бо́рошно n (vivsjáne bórošno, literally “oat flour”)


porridge

porridge (usually uncountable, plural porridges)

Variant of pottage (“thick soup or stew”), influenced by porray (“stew of leeks”). The "prison sentence" sense comes from the British tradition of serving prisoners porridge for breakfast.

keep one's breath to cool one's porridge

save one's breath to cool one's porridge

A dish made of grain or legumes, milk or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.

(Malaysia, Singapore) Rice porridge; congee.


bubble and squeak

bubble and squeak (countable and uncountable, plural bubble and squeaks)

(food): Named from the sounds during cooking.

“But if she had rank and title?”
“Rank and title! Bubble and squeak! No, not half so good as bubble and squeak. English beef and good cabbage. But foreign rank and title!—foreign cabbage and beef!—foreign bubble and foreign squeak!”

1853, Pisistratus Caxton [pseudonym; Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter VIII, in “My Novel”; Or Varieties in English Life […], volume II, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book eighth, page 348:

“Better have it—better have it first. No hurry. What've you got in the pot that smells so good?”
“Bubble and squeak, sir.”
“Bubble and squeak! Ah!” And with those words the agent withdrew to where, in a farm wagon drawn up by the side of the road, three men were solemnly pulling at their pipes.

1915, John Galsworthy, chapter XVIII, in The Freelands:

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Cabbage and mashed potatoes etc. fried together.


fairy cake

(UK, Ireland) A small cake baked in a small paper cup; a cupcake.


monkey bread

monkey bread (countable and uncountable, plural monkey breads)

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(US) A soft, sweet, sticky pastry sprinkled with cinnamon, often served at fairs and festivals.


sweets

→ Japanese: スイーツ

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Easter egg

/ˈiː.stəɹ ˌɛɡ/

Adventure (1980 video game)#Easter_egg
Easter egg

From Easter + egg. Cognate with German Low German Ooosterei (“Easter egg”), Middle High German ōsterei ("Easter egg"; > modern German Osterei). So called because eggs would be eaten during Easter to break the fasting during Lent. (No eggs, dairy, meat except fish, lard, or foods containing these ingredients could be eaten during Lent.) The computing sense is from the early 1980s, popularized by the video game Adventure.

gloss

"Easter egg"; > modern German <i class="Latn mention" lang="de">Osterei</i>

I reached the first fork in the tree and there they lay—several melted Easter eggs[…] Quickly I tore open the foil and licked the melted chocolate until there wasn't a trace left on the paper.

2008, Christel Behnke Gehlert, Recollections of a Hamburger: Growing Up German, 1941-1962, page 143:

A chocolate confection in the shape of an egg, sometimes with chocolates or sweets inside.

復活蛋 /复活蛋

a chocolate confection in the shape of an egg


gin and tonic

en-noun

gin and tonic (countable and uncountable, plural gin and tonics or (uncommon) gins and tonic or gins and tonics)

gin and tonics (plural)
gins and tonic (plural uncommon)
gins and tonics (plural)

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She drank gin and tonic by preference.

(uncountable) A simple cocktail made from gin and tonic water, often served on ice and with a slice of lime or lemon.


serving

serving (countable and uncountable, plural servings)

(countable) The quantity of food or drink intended for one person in a single sitting; especially in relation to a meal.


attenuate

en-verb

attenuate (third-person singular simple present attenuates, present participle attenuating, simple past and past participle attenuated)

attenuates (present singular third-person)
attenuating (participle present)
attenuated (participle past)
attenuated (past)

From Latin attenuāre, from attenuāt-, at- = ad- (“to”) + tenuāre (“to make thin”), tenuis (“thin”).

A beer which does not attenuate to the expected level in fermentation will have more residual sugar and thus be sweeter and heavier-bodied.

2009 July–August, John Palmer, “Attenuation: Advanced Brewing”, in Brew Your Own, archived from the original on 2013-10-06:

(brewing) (of a beer) To become less dense as a result of the conversion of sugar to alcohol.


mutton

en-noun

mutton (countable and uncountable, plural muttons)

From Middle English motoun, moton, from Old French mouton (“sheep”), from Vulgar Latin moltō, from Gaulish *multon-, from Proto-Celtic *moltos (“ram, wether”). Doublet of mouton.

(typography slang) Em, a unit of measurement equal to the height of the type in use.


ampelography

From French ampélographie, from ampelo- (“vine”) + -graphy.

She is the American apostle of Pierre Galet, a Frenchman whose internationally recognized contribution to ampelography, or the science of classifying grape vines, rests on identifying leaf design and the appearance of a vine's growing tips.

1986 August 6, Howard G. Goldberg, “Wine Talk”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, page C18:

Scientists are just now devising a genetic test to distinguish one rootstock from another. Until they do, the only recourse is the arcane art of ampelography, in which the vines are identified by physical appearance. Like art authenticators, ampelographers practice a craft that they would have others think is a science.

1993 October 17, Arthur Lubow, “What's Killing the Grapevines of Napa?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

The mainstay of grapevine identification is the science of ampelography, and manuals of ampelography (Galet 1971) are the major resource for grapevine identification.

1993, Proceedings of the Eighth Australian Wine Industry Technical Conference, Volume 8, Australian Wine Research Institute, page 78:

(botany, oenology) The discipline within botany concerned with the taxonomy of cultivars in the grapevine genus, Vitis.


bread knife

A knife, with a serrated edge, designed to cut bread; sometimes slots into a breadboard.


breadbox

a container for storing bread or other baked goods to keep them fresh


roly-poly

roly-poly (countable and uncountable, plural roly-polys or roly-polies)

roly-polys (plural)
roly-polies (plural)

/ˌɹəʊlɪˈpəʊli/

The noun is apparently derived from roll (“to turn over and over”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’), reduplicated with a change of the initial consonant. Compare rolly (“having the ability to roll, rolling”, adjective), which is attested since the 19th century.
Sense 1.7 (“mischievous or worthless person”) is possibly influenced by poll (“head; (archaic) scalp; (by extension) person”).
The adjective and adverb are attested later than the noun, and so are probably derived from it.

rolly-pooly

game in which balls are rolled or bowled into holes

[page 135] "Fanny has made the roly-poly pudding," says he; "the chops are my part. Here's a fine one; try this, Goldmore." […] [page 137] The three mutton-chops consumed by him were best of the mutton kind; the potatoes were perfect of their order; as for the roly-poly, it was too good.

1846 February 28 – 1847 February 27, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “Snobs and Marriage”, in The Book of Snobs, London: Punch Office, […], published 1848, →OCLC, pages 135 and 137:

And he hates rabbit, and never touches roly-poly, and I must say the beef isn't over tender; […] Dinner began and proceeded till the last piece of the roly-poly pudding was consumed, though not by Cyril; […]

1869, Emma Jane Worboise, “Mrs. Matthews’ Family”, in The Fortunes of Cyril Denham, London: James Clarke & Co., […]; Hodder & Stoughton, […], →OCLC, page 190:

This is, indeed, an awful meal, and we have as yet only reached the joint, and there is a detestable, indigestible, unswallowable jam roly-poly to follow.

1873 March 26, “Rose Anna: Regina: Henry is Troubled in His Conscience”, in C[harles] H[enry] Ross, editor, Judy, or The London Serio-comic Journal, volume XII, London: Published by the proprietor […], →OCLC, page 233, column 1:

(British, also attributively) A baked or steamed pudding made from suet pastry which is spread with fruit or jam (or occasionally other fillings) and then rolled up.

kääritty hillotäytteinen ihrasta tehty kohokas


tea towel

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From tea + towel. Attested from the middle 19th century. Compare earlier tea-cloth from the late 18th century.

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A cloth, made from cotton or linen, for drying dishes and glassware.


bread roll

A miniature round loaf of bread, often accompanying a meal.


turner

From Middle English turner, torner, tornere, turnere, turnare, equivalent to turn + -er. Also from Middle English turnour, tornour, tournour, turnoure, from Old French tornour, tourneour, tourneur, tornëor (“one who fashions something by turning”).

A kitchen utensil used for turning food.


Popsicle

Blend of pop + Epsicle. From Epperson+icicle. Named after Frank Epperson, its inventor. The Epsicle ice pop; the inventor's children renamed it popsicle, from (soda) pop.

A Popsicle brand popsicle, a type of ice lolly.


lunchbox

A cocktail made with beer, orange juice, and almond liqueur.


shandy

en-noun

shandy (countable and uncountable, plural shandies)

(uncountable, UK, Ireland) A drink made by mixing beer and lemonade.


soft drink

So called in contrast to strong alcoholic beverages, which are "hard liquors".

不含酒精的飲料 /不含酒精的饮料

any non-alcoholic beverage, such as Cola or milk

pop

most common term in Canada and the upper West and upper Midwest of the US, including western WI, most of IL including Chicago, MI, IN, OH, WV and western PA

soda

most common term in HI, CA, eastern MO, southwestern IL, eastern WI and New England

alcoholic beverage [[[Thesaurus:alcoholic beverage|WS]]]

en:any non-alcoholic drink that is carbonated

Any non-alcoholic drink that is carbonated, and usually also sweet. (In this sense, juice, milk, tea and coffee are not soft drinks.)

مَشْرُوب غَازِيّ

sweet, non-alcoholic carbonated beverage

清涼飲料水

せいりょういんりょうすい

agua (colloquial - short for agua gaseosa)

fresco

colloquial - especially regional and working-class usage


Devonshire tea

Synonym of cream tea, specifically as traditionally served in Devonshire.


knob

From Middle English knobbe, from Middle Low German knobbe (“knob; knot in wood”), probably via Old Saxon from a variant of Proto-Germanic *knappô (“knob, lump”), one of several kn- words related to *knudaną (“to knead”).
Cognate with Dutch knob, knobbel (“knob”), German Knubbe, Knubbel (“knob”). See also knop. For the sense of a rounded hill, see nab and knab.

բռնակ

rounded protuberance, handle, or control switch

(cooking) A dollop, an amount just larger than a spoonful (usually referring to butter).

noix

in cooking, an amount just larger than a spoonful, usually of butter


red lemonade

en-noun

red lemonade (usually uncountable, plural red lemonades)

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(UK, Ireland) Lemonade coloured with natural food colouring, giving it a red appearance and a slightly sweeter taste.


hophead

(British, slang) A beer enthusiast or homebrewer.


caffeine

caffeine (usually uncountable, plural caffeines)

From French caféine, from café (“coffee”), or German Caffein, Kaffein (cp. Coffein, Koffein), from Kaffee (“coffee”) (cp. Kaffe, Koffee, Koffe), or Italian caffè (“coffee”) + -ine.

central nervous system
central nervous system

An alkaloid, C₈H₁₀N₄O₂, found naturally in tea and coffee plants, which acts as a mild stimulant on the central nervous system.

kafeinë

alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants


junk food

junk food (countable and uncountable, plural junk foods)

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Coordinate term: health food

The episode begins with a lifetime of junk food, beer and no exercise catching up with Homer in the form of painful heart contractions.

2012 June 17, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Homer’s Triple Bypass” (season 4, episode 11; originally aired 12/17/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:

Junk foods and fast foods such as pizzas, hot dogs, doughnuts, cookies, cakes, and so on increase inflammation, promote insulin resistance, and increase the risk of diabetes and obesity.

2018, Timothy R. Jennings, The Aging Brain, →ISBN, page 82:

(informal) Food with little or no nutritional value; alternatively, food that supplies a large amount of nutrients but also excess calories, excess sugar or starch, and so on.

անառողջ սնունդ

food with little or no nutritional value


wooden spoon

(US, university slang, dated) The lowest appointee of the junior year; sometimes, one especially popular in his class, without reference to scholarship. Formerly, it was a custom for classmates to present to this person a wooden spoon with formal ceremonies.


tea-bag

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The old lady had a pile of tea-bags, quarter pounds of butter, cheese, in a bag under the bed.

1990, Iain Crichton Smith, “The Old Woman, the Baby and Terry”, in Selected Stories, Manchester: Carcanet Press, →ISBN, page 144:

There was a table in the corner with an urn of hot water on it, and a bowl of tea-bags.

1991, Frank Ronan, A Picnic in Eden, London: Sceptre, published 1992, →ISBN, book 2, pages 114–115:

She put a tea-bag into a mug and poured on boiling water. He slid off her suit jacket and she stirred her tea-bag gently and then threw it in the bin.

1999, Susan Sallis, chapter 7, in The Keys to the Garden, London: Bantam Press, →ISBN, page 105:


tea-bag

en-verb

tea-bag (third-person singular simple present tea-bags, present participle tea-bagging, simple past and past participle tea-bagged)

tea-bags (present singular third-person)
tea-bagging (participle present)
tea-bagged (participle past)
tea-bagged (past)

(chiefly water sports) To dunk into the sea or another body of water


old-fashioned

en-adj

old-fashioned (comparative more old-fashioned or older-fashioned, superlative most old-fashioned or oldest-fashioned)

more old-fashioned (comparative)
older-fashioned (comparative)
most old-fashioned (superlative)
oldest-fashioned (superlative)

From old + fashioned. The cocktail (which goes back to at least the early 1800s) got its name in the late 1800s as more complicated cocktails became common and those who preferred simpler drinks began asking for old-fashioned cocktails.

My bike is old-fashioned but it gets me around.

Miss Menie, we should mention, has a commendable desire to sell her oldest-fashioned articles first; indeed, we believe that something of the sort has always been common among mercers. It is true, that the most conscientious of the trade make a point, in such cases, to say nothing of the fashionableness of the patterns, but in proportion to the care with which they do this, they enlarge on the good qualities of the texture and durability.

1822 September, “[The Gathering of the West; or, We’re Come to See the King.] Greenock Folk.”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume XII, number LXVIII, Edinburgh: William Blackwood; London: T[homas] Cadell, […], page 309, column 1:

She was seated in a low old-fashioned arm-chair, directly below a portrait of herself, that had been taken just before her first visit to London.

1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 320:

Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path[…]. It twisted and turned,[…]and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 18:

T. S. Eliot suspects Mr. Pound’s philosophy of being antiquated. W. C. Williams finds his “versification still patterned after classic metres”; and, apropos of ‘feminolatry,’ is not the view of woman expressed by the Cantos older-fashioned than that of Siam and Abyssinia? knowledge of the femaleness of “chaos”, of the “octopus”, of “Our mulberry leaf, woman,” appertaining more to the Grand Turk than to a Roger Ascham?

1931 October, Marianne Moore, “[Reviews] The Cantos: A Draft of XXX Cantos, by Ezra Pound. Hours Press, Paris.”, in Harriet Monroe, editor, Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, volume XXXIX, number I, Chicago, Ill., page 44:

Walter Wren & Co. were a china clay firm right enough, but much smaller and older-fashioned than CCC.

2012, Robert Goddard, Fault Line, London: Bantam Press, →ISBN, page 13:

Of an object, outdated or no longer in vogue.


old-fashioned

Old John was mixing Old Fashioneds and every now and then he would turn and stare at the record case with an expression of great loathing.

1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 43:

Bond took a shower and changed and walked down the road and had two Bourbon old-fashioneds and the Chicken Dinner at $2.80 in the air-conditioned eating house on the corner that was as typical of ‘the American way of life’ as the motel.

1956, Ian Fleming, chapter 15, in Diamonds Are Forever:

At the end of the workday, the Trumans liked to have a cocktail before dinner. Shortly after they moved into the White House, Mrs. Truman rang for the butler, Alonzo Fields, one afternoon and ordered two old-fashioneds.

1996, Paul F. Boller, Presidential Anecdotes, page 286:

A cocktail made by muddling sugar with bitters and adding whiskey or, less commonly, brandy, served with a twist of citrus rind.

A type of doughnut with a cakelike consistency and a rough surface, usually made with cultured buttermilk and chemical leaven and fried at a lower temperature.


olive oil

en-noun

olive oil (countable and uncountable, plural olive oils)

From olive + oil. Compare earlier oil of olives.

A vegetable oil, pressed from olives, and used in cooking and as a salad dressing; it is high in unsaturated fatty acids.


beef Wellington

beef Wellington (countable and uncountable, plural beef Wellingtons)

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Named after an unknown person. There is no definite connection to Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington.

A fillet of beef tenderloin steak coated with pâté de foie gras and a duxelles of mushrooms, wrapped in puff pastry and baked.


macaroni

macaroni (countable and uncountable, plural macaronis or macaronies)

→ Japanese: マカロニ (makaroni)

→ Korean: 마카로니 (makaroni)

→ Malay:

Arabic script: ماكاروني

Latin script: makaroni

→ Scottish Gaelic: macaroni

From Italian maccaroni, plural of maccarone, obsolete variant of maccheroni (“macaroni, fool”), of uncertain origin. Variously derived from late Byzantine Greek μακαρία (makaría, “food made from barley”), from Ancient Greek μακάριος (makários, “blessed, favored by the gods”), and from maccare (“to bruise, to crush”), archaic variant of ammaccare, from Latin maccāre (“to bruise, to crush”). Compare Sicilian maccarruni (“a single piece of macaroni”). As a fop, apparently from the British Macaroni Club rather than from Italian use of maccarone for fools and bumpkins. As a former form of currency, used to calque Spanish macuquino, 18th-century colonial Spanish slang for a similarly clipped coin.

cog

Paste made into strings like pack-thread or thongs of whit-leather (which if greater they call Macaroni, if lesser Vermicelli) they cut in pieces and put in their pots as we do oat-meal to make their menestra or broth of.

1673, John Ray, Observations..., page 405:

MACARONI... is a preparation of wheat originally peculiar to Italy, in which country it is an article of food of national importance. The same substance in different forms is also known as vermicelli, pasta or Italian pastes, taglioni, fanti, &c.

1883, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. XV, s.v.

(uncountable, obsolete or informal, loosely) Pasta, particularly thicker noodles, spaghetti.


quad

Shortened, via clipping or abbreviation, from various English terms. Ultimately related to Latin quattuor (“4”); compare quadri-, quadruple.
The typography senses are from the abbreviation quad. for obsolete quadrat; the keyboard command comes from the verb sense.

A grande iced quad latte with milk is $6.65 + tax, whereas a quad over ice with milk added at the self-serve station is only $3.65 + tax

2023 May 7, Josh, “How to Order a Quad Over Ice + Fun Alternatives”, in Angry Espresso, archived from the original on 2023-05-28:

Something that is quadruple (four times) the usual amount, number, etc.

A serving of four shots of espresso; (attributive) containing four shots of espresso.


spit roast

We're having a hog spit roast at the weekend.

The technique of roasting an animal, such as a pig, over a fire, where the cook sticks a wooden/metal rod through the animal and sets the ends on two sticks to suspend the animal over the fire.


long pork

Reportedly coined because cannibals attest that human meat tastes like pork.

[…] the doctor still seemed to share the sort of creepiness I felt at the sight of a live nigger who had actually eaten long pork.

1896 October, Maxwell Gray, “An Old Song”, in Atalanta, volume X, number 1, London, E.C.: Marshall, Russell & Co., Ltd., page 11:

Cannibals do not eat "long pork" because they are short of animal food but in order to possess the courage of those they devour. For example, a man like Peter Jackson or John L. Sullivan would have been greatly in demand.

They still play chess, but they no longer eat "long pork".

1942, Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, Return to Malaya, page 369:

From the back of the bar, from the man with the huge pot belly, came a sound like a cannibal might make if he was choking on long pork, "Ga gobba. Ga gobba."

2005, Jim Christy, The redemption of Anna Dupree, page 145:


carnivorous

en-adj

carnivorous (comparative more carnivorous, superlative most carnivorous)

more carnivorous (comparative)
most carnivorous (superlative)

(botany) Insectivorous: capable of trapping insects and absorbing nutrient from them.


oxtail

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From Middle English ox tayll, from Old English oxan tæġl (literally “ox's tail”), equivalent to ox + tail.

inh

A cut of meat taken from the tail of a cow or calf; it requires long, slow braising, and is used to prepare oxtail soup.


spicy

en-adj

spicy (comparative spicier, superlative spiciest)

spicier (comparative)
spiciest (superlative)

From spice + -y, attested since the 16th century.

This curry is too spicy for me. I can't eat it.

(informal, of flavors) Provoking a burning sensation due to the presence of capsaicin.

حَار

providing a burning sensation due to chilies and other spices


salt shaker

So she cut the crusts from a pair of chicken sandwiches and set them on a tray along with a saltshaker, a white peach, and a King James bible, and I climbed the stairs to his room.

1995, Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys, Ch.1, at p.4

A small container designed to hold salt and facilitate sprinkling it on food for seasoning purposes.


kipper

From Old English cypera (“male salmon”), perhaps related to Old English coper (“reddish-brown metal”) (see copper), on resemblance of color. Another theory connects it to kip (“sharp, hooked lower jaw of the male salmon in breeding season”), from Middle English kippen (“to seize, snatch”), but OED doubts this.

inh

Kipper, I discovered, was airman's slang for a fishing boat. The chief function of this particular station was the escorting of convoys and fishing fleets, and the section which had the latter duty to perform was known as the ‘Kipper Patrol’.

Kipper-kites, aircraft engaged on convoy escort duties over the North Sea and usually giving protection to the fishing-vessels.

1943, J. L. Hunt, A. G. Pringle, Service Slang, page 42:

(military, RAF World War II code name) A patrol to protect fishing boats in the Irish and North Seas against attack from the air.


kipper

en-verb

kipper (third-person singular simple present kippers, present participle kippering, simple past and past participle kippered)

kippers (present singular third-person)
kippering (participle present)
kippered (participle past)
kippered (past)

There was kippered salmon, and Finnan haddocks, and a lamb's head, and a haggis[…]

1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 49, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:

(cooking) To prepare (a herring or similar fish) by splitting, salting, and smoking.


kipper

en-adj

kipper (comparative more kipper, superlative most kipper)

more kipper (comparative)
most kipper (superlative)

These were kipper salmon, and an acquaintance of mine living at Burton Rowbottom who was trolling for pike at Yoxall, near to King's Bromley, got a run, five years ago, and caught a beautiful salmon weighting 25 lbs.

1861, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Reports from Commissioners - Volume 23, page 523:

the milner of Brignall for that he doth usually keep in the back beck a fishlock in the river called Gill Beck, below his mill and the forebeck of another fishlock [sic] above the mill, whereby he taketh and destroyeth much fish, to wit —routs, at his pleasure, and taketh, etc. divers fish when they are kipper and out of season;

1888, Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (North Riding of Yorkshire), John Christopher Atkinson, Quarter Sessions Records - Volume 6, page 43:

Walton next tells us that the he-salmon is usually bigger than the spawner; that he is more kipper and less able to endure a winter in the fresh water than she is, yet she is, at that time of looking less kipper and better, as watery and as bad meat.'

1898, Alfred Erskine Gathorne-Hardy, The Salmon, page 15:

Three weeks ago 25 per cent of the salmon running were kipper salmon.

1923, New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives, Journal. Appendix, page 17:

(fishing, especially of salmon) Out of season.


kipper

Short form of UKIP + -er, influenced by kipper, the type of fish.

(UK, informal, humorous, often with capital) A member or supporter of UKIP (UK Independence Party).


nourishment

en-noun

nourishment (countable and uncountable, plural nourishments)

/ˈnʌɹɪʃmənt/

/ˈnʊɹɪʃmənt/

From Middle English norisshement, from Middle French, from Old French norissement, from norrir.


lamington

Uncertain. Although current dictionaries all associate it with Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington, the earliest publication of this derivation is by John Hepworth in the Nation Review of July 1977. An earlier (1966) reference gives the cake but does not associate it with the Baron, suggesting the theory was not current in the 1960s. It has also been claimed that the name comes from Lamington, South Lanarkshire.

Women were also known for their cooking skills although this was not so much in the provision of meals (which were ‘simple and wholesome’), but in the production of confectionery, ranging from scones, biscuits, sponges, cakes, etc., to such noted Australian and New Zealand delicacies as lamingtons and pavlova.

2000, Patrick Mullins, Chris Kynaston, “The Household Production of Subsistence Goods”, in Patrick Nicol Troy, editor, A History of European Housing in Australia: The Urban Peasant Thesis Reassessed, page 146:

Lamingtons are little sponge cakes coated in chocolate and grated coconut.

2003, Dawn Marie Schrandt, Just Me Cookin Cakes, page 136:

Lamingtons are a traditional New Zealand tea-time treat: plain sponge dipped in a chocolate sauce and coated with coconut.

2005, Pippa Cuthbert, Lindsay Cameron Wilson, Ice Cream!, page 118:

Enter James Lambert, word detective. Goaded by Priol’s anagram, Lambert doubted the Shaky Isles’ equally rickety claims on the lamington. Steal the pavlova if you must, but only an April Fool would deem the lamington a Kiwi import.

2021 April 14, David Astle, “Lamington wars: claiming an Australian invention really takes the cake”, in The Age:

(chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A small square Australian/New Zealand cake made with sponge cake covered on all sides (including top and bottom) with chocolate and desiccated coconut.


pizza puff

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From pizza + puff, trademarked in some regions.

Today I was eating a pizza puff with crinkle-fries and a vanilla shake, so diarrhea was pretty much a definite for me.

2004, Joe Meno, Hairstyles of the Damned, page 68:

That he'd never had a pizza puff did not deter him. His approach at lunch, as it was elsewhere, was straight ahead.

2006, Andy Nash, Through the Lens of Social Justice:

Rick tells them about various diners (he is an expert on local grubby diners), and which ones make you need a bathroom the soonest, which ones you should only order a pizza puff from […]

2016, Adam Selzer, Just Kill Me, page 121:

A dough pouch filled with the ingredients of a pizza, such as cheese, pizza sauce, sausage, and pepperoni, and usually deep-fried.


fanning

Generally orthodox teas have four grades, namely whole leaf, broken leaf, fannings and dust.

2013, Victor R. Preedy, Tea in Health and Disease Prevention:


manhattan

Alternative spelling of Manhattan (“cocktail”).


watercress

watercress (countable and uncountable, plural watercresses)

/ˈwɔːtəkɹɛs/

/ˈwɔtəɹkɹɛs/

From Middle English water cresse, water-kresse, watercrasse, water cars, equivalent to water + cress. Cognate with West Frisian waterkers (“watercress”), Dutch waterkers (“watercress”), Swedish vattenkrasse (“watercress”).

A spring wells up in the centre of the village, and watercress beds lie beside the stream running alongside the main street.

1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 178:

Nasturtium officinale
Nasturtium officinale#Translingual

A perennial European herb, Nasturtium officinale, that grows in freshwater streams; used in salads and as a garnish.


repast

en-verb

repast (third-person singular simple present repasts, present participle repasting, simple past and past participle repasted)

repasts (present singular third-person)
repasting (participle present)
repasted (participle past)
repasted (past)

Partly:
* from Middle English repasten (“(reflexive) to refresh (oneself) with food”) [and other forms], either from repast, repaste (“feast, meal; food, nourishment; the Eucharist; refreshment, rest”) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive forms of verbs); or from Late Latin repāstus, the perfect passive participle of repāscō (“to feed; to feed one after another”) (see further at etymology 1); and
* from repast (noun).

inh

And now they reach'd the naval Walls, and found / The Guards repaſting, while the Bowls go round; […]

1720, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, “Book XXIV”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume VI, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, page 170, lines 545–546:

[O]n arrival of the dinner-hour, repasteth on domestic fare, (making especial mention of certain fishes, and concluding with cheese,) […]

1842, “In Praise of Porter”, in Bentley’s Miscellany, volume XII, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, fytte the fourth, marginal note, page 346:

(intransitive, obsolete, also figuratively) Usually followed by on or upon: to take food and drink; to feast, to feed.


rockbun

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A type of pastry with a crusted sugar coating.


palatable

en-adj

palatable (comparative more palatable, superlative most palatable)

more palatable (comparative)
most palatable (superlative)

For some instant noodles make a palatable, if not especially nutritious, meal.

The fermentation of flour by means of brewer’s or distiller’s yeast produces, if rightly managed, results far more palatable and wholesome.

1896, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Household Papers and Stories:


varietal

/vəˈɹaɪətəl/

An assessment of a selection of regional, varietal, and slang dictionaries also found that little lexicographical effort has been extended to these terms.

2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 2:

(linguistics) Of or relating to a variety of a language.


tawny

en-noun

tawny (countable and uncountable, plural tawnies or tawnys)

From Middle English tauni, tawne (“brownish-orange colour; cloth of this colour; sweet beverage of this colour”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman tawné, and Old French tané, tanné, tanney (“tan colour; cloth of this colour”), from tané (verb): see further at etymology 1.
Sense 2.1 (“Eurasian bullfinch”) is due to the brown colour of the female.

kellanruskea

something of a light brown or brownish orange colour

Tawny is the most versatile Port style. The best tawnies are good-quality wines that have faded to a pale garnet or brownish red color during long wood aging. […] We consider 10- and 20-year-old tawnies the best buys; the older ones aren't always worth the extra bucks.

2006, Ed McCarthy, Mary Ewing-Mulligan, “Wine Roads Less Traveled: Fortified and Dessert Wines”, in Wine for Dummies (For Dummies), 4th edition, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, part V (Wine’s Exotic Face), page 297:

A ten-year-old tawny is a good place to start with a tawny port novice, who might otherwise be put off by the oxidized flavors (i.e., more wood and earth notes than fruit) that come with a very old tawny.

2007, Lettie Teague, “Portugal”, in Educating Peter: How I Taught a Famous Movie Critic the Difference between Cabernet and Merlot or How Anyone Can Become an (Almost) Instant Wine Expert, New York, N.Y., London: Scribner, →ISBN, page 110:

(alcoholic beverages) In full tawny port: a sweet, fortified port wine which is blended and matured in wooden casks.


pancake

en-verb

pancake (third-person singular simple present pancakes, present participle pancaking, simple past and past participle pancaked)

pancakes (present singular third-person)
pancaking (participle present)
pancaked (participle past)
pancaked (past)

Inherited from Middle English pancake, panne cake, pankake, ponkake, equivalent to pan + cake.
Perhaps adapted from Middle Low German pankôke, pannekôke, from Old Saxon *pannakōko (suggested by derivatives Old Saxon pannakōkilo and pannakōkilīn), where the compound is much older; compare Old High German phankuohho (8th century), whence Middle High German phankuoche, German Pfannkuchen (“pancake”); further
Saterland Frisian Ponkouke, Ponkuuke (“pancake”), West Frisian pankoek (“pancake”), Dutch pannenkoek (“pancake”), German Low German Pannkook (“pancake”).
The juggling sense is by analogy with a pancake being tossed in a pan.

(intransitive) To make a pancake landing.


gluten

en-noun

gluten (countable and uncountable, plural glutens)

From Middle French gluten, borrowed from Latin glūten (“glue”).

Chew on a small piece of dough, and it becomes more compact but persists as a gum-like, elastic mass, the residue that the Chinese named “the muscle of flour” and that we call gluten. It consists mainly of protein, and includes what may well be the largest protein molecules to be found in the natural world.

2004, Harold McGee, chapter 10, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:

Unfortunately, wholemeal bread is, according to many experts, a tricky thing to get right, as the lower gluten content of the flour makes for dense results […]

2010 June 10, Felicity Cloake, Word of Mouth Blog, The Guardian:

(cooking, biochemistry) The major protein in cereal grains, especially wheat; responsible for the elasticity in dough and the structure in baked bread.


veg*n

Also spelled 'veg*an', derived from vegan and vegetarian and the use in computer languages of * as a wildcard

Vegetarian and/or vegan; a person who may either eat no animal flesh or eat no animal products at all.


cheesecake

cheesecake (countable and uncountable, plural cheesecakes)

desc

تْشِيز كَيْك

→ Arabic: تْشِيز كَيْك (tšīz kayk)

→ Armenian: չիզքեյք (čʻizkʻeykʻ)

→ Azerbaijani: çizkeyk

→ Bulgarian: чийзке́йк (čijzkéjk)

→ Chinese: 起士蛋糕 (qǐshì dàngāo), 起司蛋糕 (qǐsī dàngāo), 乳酪蛋糕 (rǔlào dàngāo), 芝士蛋糕 (zhīshì dàngāo) (calque)

→ French: cheesecake, cheese-cake, cheese cake

→ Greek: τσίζκεϊκ (tsízkeïk), τσιζκέικ (tsizkéik), τσεισκέικ (tseiskéik)

→ Hijazi Arabic: تشيزكيك (tšīzkēk)

→ Hindi: चीज़केक (cīzkek)

→ Indonesian: cheesecake

→ Italian: cheesecake

→ Japanese: チーズケーキ (chīzukēki)

→ Kannada: ಚೀಜ಼್ಕೇಕ್ (cīzkēk)

→ Korean: 치즈케이크 (chijeukeikeu)

→ Mongolian: чийзкэйк (čiizkejk)

→ Persian: چیز کیک (čiz keyk)

→ Portuguese: cheesecake

→ Romanian: cheesecake

→ Russian: чи́зкейк (čízkejk), чизке́йк (čizkéjk)

→ Spanish: cheesecake

→ Swedish: cheesecake

→ Ukrainian: чізкейк (čizkejk)

From Middle English chesekake; equivalent to cheese + cake. Compare chess cake.

Cheesecake is an especially delicious dessert.

(countable and uncountable) A pie made of sweetened and flavoured cottage cheese or cream cheese, eggs and milk on a crunchy base.

w:Dictionary of American Regional English

(countable and uncountable, obsolete) A pie made of cream, eggs and milk (somewhat resembling the modern American chess cake).

Company policy forbids displaying cheesecake in the locker rooms.

She was turning back toward the cameraman when she caught the pose of the filing clerk who was sitting on the corner of the desk with her skirt over her knees, her toes pointed down so that her crossed legs showed to advantage.
"Now what the hell are you doing sitting there sticking that nylon out at the camera?" Bertha asked.
(...) A man who had been standing over behind the filing case came out and said, "We're going to need cheesecake, Mrs. Cool. If we don't have cheesecake, the papers won't publish it."

(uncountable) Imagery of scantily clad, sexually attractive young women; pin-ups.


okonomiyaki

/ˌɒkənəmɪˈjɑːki/

Borrowed from Japanese お好み焼き (okonomiyaki, literally “grilling to your liking”).

bor

A primary ingredient in okonomiyaki, a guest-participation dish from Japan, is chopped cabbage.

1966 February 17, Craig Claiborne, “A Japanese Version of Swiss Fondue Is Okonomiyaki, or What-You-Will”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A Japanese style of savoury pan-fried thick pancake including a mixture of vegetables and beef, pork, or seafood.


gribble

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The study also reveals that Wigan likely calls excess batter bits ‘Scraps’ or ‘Bits’, compared to the south west and east of the UK who are more likely to order ‘Gribbles’ or ‘Scrumps’.

[2020 September 4, Ben Butler, “REVEALED: UK’s brutal verdict on these Wigan chip-shop favourites”, in Wigan Today:

Margaret also played her part in filling our hungry mouths by working at the local fish and chip shop in the village and by bringing home all the leftovers which we devoured ravenously—gribbles, the odd faggot etc. etc.—delicious.

2023, Sheila M. Hutchings, Humble Beginnings, →ISBN:

Went to a Chippy as a Kid.
Me "do you have Pigs Feet?"
Lass Behind Counter "Yes I do".
Me "Well give us a bag of GRIBBLES then Porky!!!"

2023 August 17, Pssstu2021, “What does everyone call these from the chippy?”, in Reddit, r/CasualUK:

(UK, Devon, in the plural) A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips.


macro

1933, from macro-, from French, from Latin, from Ancient Greek μακρός (makrós, “long”).

While there are many aspects to this way of living, the actual “diet” focuses on whole foods, consumed in traditional methods. A typical macro bowl includes grains, beans, steamed veggies, sea vegetables, and fermented foods.

(cooking, colloquial) Clipping of macrobiotic.


urn

From Middle English urne, from Old French urne, from Latin urna (“vessel”). Doublet of urna.

(botany) A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.


seedy

en-adj

seedy (comparative seedier, superlative seediest)

seedier (comparative)
seediest (superlative)

From Middle English sedy, equivalent to seed + -y.

Pomegranates are as seedy as any fruit you are likely to see.

Literal senses:
Seedlike; having the flavour of seeds.

(colloquial) Having a peculiar flavour supposed to be derived from the weeds growing among the vines; said of certain kinds of French brandy.

With her aching back and pronounced limp, she was feeling particularly seedy today.

After last night’s party we were all feeling pretty seedy.


piquant

piquant (comparative more piquant, superlative most piquant)

more piquant (comparative)
most piquant (superlative)

Borrowed from Middle French piquant (“pricking, stimulating, irritating”), present participle of piquer, possibly from Old French pikier (“to prick, sting, nettle”). Doublet of picong. Related to pike.

der

Pork Chops with Apple and Port These chops are baked in a piquant sauce containing fruit, honey, cinnamon, lemon and port, all of which reduces to a spicy syrup.

2000, Lynn Bedford Hall, The Best of Cooking in South Africa, 2nd edition, Cape Town: Struik Publishers, →ISBN, page 103:

Elsewhere in South America, excepting Bahia in Brazil, one does not encounter piquant cuisine, although one may stumble on a piquant dish now and then […]

2005, Clifford A. Wright, Some Like it Hot: Spicy Favorites from the World's Hot Zones, Boston, Mass.: Harvard Common Press, →ISBN, page 170:

French charcuterie relies on cloves in the quatre épices, or four-spice powder, for seasoning fine sausages and piquant marinades.

2009, Sara Engram with Katie Luber and Kimberly Toqe, The Spice Kitchen: Everyday Cooking with Organic Spices, Kansas City, Mo.: Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN, page 9:

Favorably stimulating to the palate; pleasantly spicy; tangy.


broil

From Middle English broylen, brulen (“to broil, cook”), from Anglo-Norman bruiller, broiller (“to broil, roast”), Old French brusler, bruller (“to broil, roast, char”), a blend of two Old French verbs:
* bruir (“to burn”), from Frankish *brōjan (“to burn, scald”)
* usler (“to scorch”), from Latin ustulō (“to scorch”)

Cluffe, externally acquiescing, had yet made up his mind, if a decent opportunity presented, to be detected and made prisoner, and that the honest troubadours should sup on a hot broil, and sip some of the absent General's curious Madeira at the feet of their respective mistresses, with all the advantage which a situation so romantic and so private would offer.

1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “Concerning a Little Rehearsal in Captain Cluffe’s Lodging, and a Certain Confidence between Dr. Sturk and Mr. Dangerfield”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume II, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 86:


whipped cream

en-noun

whipped cream (usually uncountable, plural whipped creams)

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The standard of identity comes from 21 CFR 131.25.

հարած սերուցք

thick cream that has had air incorporated into it by rapid beating

standards of identity
standard of identity

Thick cream that has had air incorporated into it by rapid beating.

(US standards of identity) Cream, at least 30% of which is milkfat, possibly also containing emulsifiers and/or stabilizers but nothing else, which is then whipped.


whipping

whipping (countable and uncountable, plural whippings)

(uncountable) A cooking technique in which air is incorporated into cream to produce whipped cream.


white chocolate

white chocolate (countable and uncountable, plural white chocolates)

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(countable) A piece of confectionery consisting of this.


stew

stew (usually uncountable, plural stews)

→ Japanese: シチュー (shichū)

From Middle English stewe, stue, from Anglo-Norman estouve, Old French estuve (“bath, bathhouse”) (modern French étuve), from Medieval Latin stupha, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Vulgar Latin *extufāre, from ex- + Ancient Greek τῦφος (tûphos, “smoke, steam”), from τύφω (túphō, “to smoke”). See also Italian stufare, Portuguese estufar. Compare also Old English stuf-bæþ (“a hot-air bath, vapour bath”); see stove.

cog

(obsolete) A cooking-dish used for boiling; a cauldron.

It was used as a stew, so that the inhabitants of the castle could have fish on Fridays, and for this reason the architects had been careful not to let the drains and sewers run into it. It was stocked with fish every year.

1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter V, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone):

(Sussex) A pool in which fish are kept in preparation for eating.


wagon wheel

(cricket) A graphical representation of the cricket field, with lines showing the trajectories of the scoring balls hit by a batsman; singles, fours and sixes are shown in different colours.


wineskin

Coordinate term: waterskin

A bag, traditionally made from the skin of a goat (a goatskin), used for holding and dispensing wine.


winkle-picker

[The girl] informed me that […] I had no right to wander at will upon the winkle-beds! Her brother, said she, was the watcher over this particular part of the Whitstable fishing-ground, beyond which he was the champion winkle-picker of the neighbourhood!

1908, W. Percival Westell, chapter 6, in The Story of the Sea and the Seashore, London: Robert Culley, page 199:

The most inveterate beachcomber and by far the speediest winkle picker in the village was ‘Euan, the son of Euan, the son of Euan’, the Gaelic pronunciation of whose name approximated to a long drawn-out yawn.

1961, Lillian Beckwith, “Beachcombing”, in The Sea for Breakfast, London: Arrow Books, published 1968, page 75:

the first piece of writing he had ever done [was] a starkly rhymed description of his boyhood as a winkle-picker on the Welsh coast

1967, Richard Condon, chapter 1, in The Ecstasy Business, New York: Dial, page 7:

Annie-John, the winkle picker, in men’s boots and a man’s overcoat went by with an empty bucket.

2011, Dermot Healy, chapter 46, in Long Time, No See,, London: Faber and Faber, page 424:

(UK, Ireland) A person who harvests periwinkles (a kind of sea snail) to be eaten.


public house

Those of us who care for the nation's defence have been astonished to hear that confidential documents have been left in a public house.

1990, House of Cards, season 1, episode 1:

(UK, formal) A pub; a British bar or tavern, often selling food and sometimes lodging; an inn.


cuisine

en-noun

cuisine (countable and uncountable, plural cuisines)

Borrowed from French cuisine (“cooking, culinary art, kitchen”), from Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna. Doublet of kitchen.

bor

(uncountable) Synonym of culinary art: The art of preparing food, generally.


gastronomy

en-noun

gastronomy (usually uncountable, plural gastronomies)

From French gastronomie, from Ancient Greek γαστρονομία (gastronomía), from γαστήρ (gastḗr, “stomach”) + νόμος (nómos, “knowledge, law”); by surface analysis, gastro- (“cooking”) + -nomy (“a system of rules or laws about a particular field”).

surf

The gastronomy of Mexico is world-famous.

The cooking of a particular area; cuisine.


G&T

The cocktail in Britain is a rigidly-defined social institution: each has its own particular meaning—the G & T is the alcoholic equivalent of the interview suit; Pernod and black is an alternative to glue sniffing for repentant trendies, etc.

2011, Mark Polonsky et al., USSR: From an Original Idea by Karl Marx, page 32:


veggie

en-adj

veggie (comparative more veggie, superlative most veggie)

more veggie (comparative)
most veggie (superlative)

Clipping of vegetable and/or vegetarian + -ie.

One place was too crowded last time, another too expensive, a third she liked but he thought too "veggie."

Diet for a Small Planet was also popular at the time, but it was a little too 'veggie,' a little too new for some people.

2001 January 20, “Simplicity of Mennonite cookbook makes converts”, in Dallas Morning News:

The main courses are heavy on beans and may be too veggie for the typical meat eater to swallow but side dishes are less exotic and just as healthy ...

2001 September 16, “Fighting cancer with a menu”, in Chicago Tribune:

Steven Beeson of Milwaukee won a blue ribbon with this very veggie entree

2004 September 1, “Pasta Thai a winner in new competition”, in Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Journal-Sentinel:

(informal) Vegetarian; suitable for vegetarians; without meat.

vega

informal: vegetarian; suitable for vegetarians — see also vegetarian


ingredient

From Middle French ingredient, from Latin ingrediens, present participle of ingredior (“I go or enter into or onto”).

The ingredients of a Spanish omelette are potatoes, eggs, onion, and a little salt.

By way of analysis we may proceed from compounds to ingredients.

1704, I[saac] N[ewton], “(please specify |book=1 to 3)”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. […], London: […] Sam[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin] Walford, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:

Water is the chief ingredient in all the animal fluids and solids.

1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], →OCLC:

One of the substances present in a mixture, especially food.

因素

"element" - used when creating a metaphor


tofu

en-noun

tofu (countable and uncountable, plural tofus)

Borrowed from Japanese 豆腐(とうふ) (tōfu), from Middle Chinese 豆腐 (dəuᴴ bɨo^X, “curdled bean”). Doublet of dubu.

der

Coordinate term: tempeh

First, marinate the tofu. In a bowl, whisk the kecap manis, chilli sauce, and sesame oil together. Cut the tofu into strips about 1cm thick, mix gently (so it doesn't break) with the marinade and leave in the fridge for half an hour.

2012 May 8, Yotam Ottolenghi, Sami Tamimi, Ottolenghi: The Cookbook, Random House, →ISBN, page 79:

A protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk.


bean curd

en-noun

bean curd (countable and uncountable, plural bean curds)

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Loose calque of Chinese 豆腐 (dòufu), from Middle Chinese 豆 (dəuᴴ, “bean”) + 腐 (bɨo^X, “rotten, fermented”).


cauldron

From Middle English caudroun, borrowed from Old Northern French caudron, ultimately from Late Latin caldāria (“cooking-pot”), from Latin caldus (“hot”). Spelling later Latinized by having an l inserted. See chowder, caldera.
The military sense is a semantic loan from German Kessel; compare English kettling.

Double, double, toile and trouble; / Fire burne, and Cauldron bubble.

c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 143, column 2:

[…] I don't expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses … […]

1997, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Raincoast Books, →ISBN, page 102:

Large cauldrons are a little tricky to locate, but are well worth the search if you have a place to safely store and use one.

2004, Carl Neal, The Magick Toolbox: The Ultimate Compendium for Choosing and Using Ritual Implements and Magickal Tools, Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC, →ISBN:

A large bowl-shaped pot used for boiling over an open flame.


wassail

wassail (countable and uncountable, plural wassails)

→ Welsh: gwasael

From Middle English wassail, from Old Norse ves heill (“be healthy!”), from the imperative of vesa (“to be”) + heill (“healthy”). The earliest documented use of the term is from the first part of the 12th century CE, in Geoffroy of Monmounth's Historia Regum Britanniae (see page's citations).

In merry wassail he […] peals his loud song.

1813, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in Rokeby; a Poem, Edinburgh: […] [F]or John Ballantyne and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; by James Ballantyne and Co., […], →OCLC:

The victors abandoned themselves to feasting and wassail.

1855–1858, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, →OCLC:

A blinding light against a garish blue sky made vision difficult, thanks to the previous night's wassail.

1980, Ian Chappell, Chappelli has the Last Laugh, page 39:


fatigue

en-verb

fatigue (third-person singular simple present fatigues, present participle fatiguing, simple past and past participle fatigued)

fatigues (present singular third-person)
fatiguing (participle present)
fatigued (participle past)
fatigued (past)

From French fatiguer, from Latin fatīgāre (“to weary, tire, vex, harass”).

väsyä

engineering: to undergo the process of fatigue

The handsome, silver-haired proprietor was absorbed in fatiguing a salad for a family party.

1927, Dorothy L. Sayers, chapter 1, in Unnatural Death:

(transitive, cooking) To wilt a salad by dressing or tossing it.

nuuduttaa

cooking: to wilt a salad by dressing or tossing it


gruel

en-noun

gruel (countable and uncountable, plural gruels)

From Middle English gruel, gruwel, greuel, growel (“meal or flour made from beans, lentils, etc.”), from Old French gruel (“coarse meal; > French gruau”), from Medieval Latin grutellum, diminutive of Medieval Latin grutum (“flour; meal”), from a Germanic source, likely Old English grūt (“meal; grout”) or perhaps Frankish *grūt; both from Proto-Germanic *grūtiz (“ground material; grit”). Compare Dutch gruit, Middle Low German grūt, Middle High German grūz, German Grütze (“grout”). Related also to English groats, grit.

der

coarse meal; > French <i class="Latn mention" lang="fr">gruau</i>


mudslide

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[…] and seem able to function during A.M. drills even after several parasolled Mudslides or the House-Specialty Blue Flame cognac-based things you have to blow out before sipping from their huge blue-rimmed snifters.

1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 997:

A mixed drink consisting of vodka, Kahlúa and Baileys.


trivet

PIE word
 *tréyes
From Middle English trevet, from Old English trefet, borrowed from Latin tripēs, tripedis (“tripod”).

They collected wood and built back the fire and they fetched rocks to make a trivet and there they set the bucket to boil.

A stand with three short legs, especially for cooking over a fire.


Black Russian

en-adj

Black Russian (comparative more Black Russian, superlative most Black Russian)

more Black Russian (comparative)
most Black Russian (superlative)

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vinegar

en-noun

vinegar (countable and uncountable, plural vinegars)

→ Japanese: ビネガー (binegā)

→ Welsh: finegr

From Middle English vynegre, from Old French vinaigre from Old French vyn egre, based on Latin vīnum (“wine”) + Latin ācer (“sour”). Displaced Old English æċed (survived in Middle English eced).

it is better to be preserved in vinegar than to rot in honey

you attract more flies with honey than vinegar

you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar

you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar

you catch more flies with honey than vinegar

you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar

You full of vinegar now, but you 'bout through / We gonna get a steam drill to do your share of driving / Then what's all them muscles gonna do? Huh, John Henry? / Gonna take a little bit of vinegar out of you.

1962, “The Legend of John Henry's Hammer”, performed by Johnny Cash:


jorum

Uncertain; perhaps from the Hebrew name of Joram, who “brought with him [to King David] vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass” (Bible (King James Version), 2 Samuel 8:10; compare Jeroboam); or from Arabic جَرَّة (jarra, “earthen receptacle”).

derived

Then come, put the jorum about, / And let us be merry and clever, / Our hearts and our liquors are stout, / Here's the Three Jolly Pigeons for ever.

1773 (first performance), Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer; or, The Mistakes of a Night: A Comedy, by Dr. Goldsmith. Adapted for Theatrical Representation, as Performed at the Theatres-Royal, Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden. Regulated from the Prompt-books, by Permission of the Managers. “The lines distinguished by inverted commas, are omitted in the representation.”, London: Printed for the proprietors, under the direction of John Bell, British Library, Strand, Bookseller to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, published 1791, OCLC 645786039, Act I, scene ii; republished in Bell's British Theatre. Consisting of the Most Esteemed English Plays, volume IX, London: Printed for, and under the direction of, George Cawthorn, British Library, Strand, 1797, OCLC 472479652, page 19

Come each jolly fellow / That loves to be mellow, / Attend unto me, and sit easy: / One jorum in quiet, / My boys, we will try it, / Dull thinking will make a man crazy: […] / I am here as Justice of Quorum; / And in my cabin's fore end, / I've a bed for a friend, / With a clean fire-side and a jorum.

1820, “The Farmer”, in The Harp of Orpheus; Being a Collection of the Best English, Scotch, and Irish Songs, Catches, Glees, Duets, Trios, Quartettos, &c. &c. Also, a Selection of Toasts and Sentiments, Derby, Derbyshire: Printed by and for H. Mozley, Brook-Street, →OCLC, page 212:

In battle one day, with a jorum of flip, / Jack, while crossing the deck, began reeling, / And fell, for his leg was shot off at the hip, / But the liquor he just saved from spilling.

1841, C[harles] Dibdin, Jun., “All in His Glory”, in Charles Dibdin; Thomas [John] Dibdin, Songs, Naval and National, of the Late Charles Dibdin; with a Memoir and Addenda. Collected and Arranged by Thomas Dibdin, Author of “The English Fleet,” “Cabinet,” &c. &c. With Characteristic Sketches by George Cruikshank, London: John Murray, Albemarle Street. (Publisher to the Admiralty.), OCLC 558164904, page 268

They ketched hould of aich other, gasping as he stepped down out of the air to the ground, an' wishin' them the top of the avening, he brushed past, walked bould to the bar an' briskly called for three jorums of whusky.

1901–1902, Herminie Templeton [Kavanagh], Darby O'Gill and the Good People, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips, published 1903, →OCLC, page 286:

You see, at that time, in the Duchy of Brunswick, or Braunschweig, now part of Germany, it was the custom for friendly groups to drink from the same receptacle, in this case a jorum, or basin—a good idea, rightly understood, in that it made for communitas, or community, […]

1988, J[ames] F[arl] Powers, “Priestly Fellowship”, in Wheat that Springeth Green, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN 978-0-394-49609-2; republished New York, N.Y.: The New York Review of Books, 2000, ISBN 978-0-940322-24-0, page 175

A large vessel for drinking (usually alcoholic beverages).


dragée

I opened the cupboard and found a bag of raisins, two empty sauce bottles, a packet of icing sugar, a tube of dragées and a paper packet of candles.

1971, Anthony Burgess, M/F, Penguin, published 2004, page 129:

A sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc.

مُلَبَّس

a sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc.


LGBT

Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or transsexual, derived from earlier LGB. Attested since 1988. Used as a self-designation in United States gay rights activism since about 1990.

initialism

Whether it’s LGBT sandwiches in an era where schools in Birmingham are facing protests for teaching LGBTQ rights, or Nike promoting the fight against police brutality in the age of Trump, brands are tapping into this sense of millennial grievance.

2019 May 23, Owen Jones, “Woke-washing: how brands are cashing in on the culture wars”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(cooking) A sandwich named after the sexuality-gender term, composed of lettuce, guacamole or avocado, bacon, tomato. A variant of the BLT.


provision

en-noun

provision (countable and uncountable, plural provisions)

/pɹəˈvɪʒ.ən/

From Middle English provisioun, from Old French provisïon, from Latin prōvīsiō (“preparation, foresight”), from prōvidēre (“provide”).

der

An arrest shall be made in accordance with the provisions of this Act.

Almost half of MEPs wanted to remove the new provisions' to expand the use of megatrucks but an amendment to do that failed to pass by just six votes.

(law) A clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.

määräys

in contracts or non-governmental regulations


flank

From Late Middle English flanc, from Late Old English flanc (“flank”), from Old French flanc, of Germanic origin, probably Frankish *hlanca, from Proto-Germanic *hlankō (“bend, curve, hip, flank”), from Proto-Germanic *hlankaz (“flexible, sleek, bendsome”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleng- (“to bend”). Akin to Old High German hlanca (“loin”), Middle Low German lanke (“hip joint”) (German lenken (“to bend, turn, lead”)), Old English hlanc (“loose, slender, flaccid, lank”). More at lank.

cog

Holonym: side

Coordinate term: loin (coordinate especially in butchery; not consistently differentiated regarding the human body)

(anatomy) The lateral flesh between the last rib and the hip.

خَاصِرَة

anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip

(cooking) A cut of meat from the flank of an animal.


flank

All ahead flank!

(US, nautical, of speed) Maximum. Historically faster than full speed (the most a vessel can sustain without excessive engine wear or risk of damage), now frequently used interchangeably. Typically used in an emergency or during an attack.


chaff

en-noun

chaff (usually uncountable, plural chaffs)

From Middle English chaf, from Old English ċeaf, from Proto-West Germanic *kaf. Cognate with Scots caff, Saterland Frisian Sääf, West Frisian tsjêf, Dutch kaf, German Low German Kaff, regional German Kaff.

(military) Loose material, e.g. small strips of aluminum foil dropped from aircraft, intended to interfere with radar detection.

silppu

loose material dropped from aircraft to interfere with radar


Caucasian

Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
Mugan plain
Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
The Big Lebowski

From Caucasus (“mountain range in Eastern Europe between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea”) + -ian (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘from, related to, or like’, or forming nouns with the sense ‘one from, belonging to, relating to, or like’). The anthropological sense (no longer regarded as scientific) was popularized by the German anthropologist and physician Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840), based on the belief that the first humans originated from there.
Noun sense 2 (“cocktail”) was popularized by the film The Big Lebowski (1998): see the quotation.

nb...

Praemissa est epistola ad virvm perillvstrem Iosephvm Banks baronetvm regiae Societatis Londin. praesidem

I'll go out and mingle. Jesus, you mix a hell of a Caucasian, Jackie.

1998 January 18, Joel and Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski (motion picture), spoken by Jeffrey (“The Dude”) Lebowski (Jeff Bridges):

(alcoholic beverages, humorous) Synonym of White Russian (“a cocktail consisting of coffee liqueur, milk, and vodka”)


cake mix

en-noun

cake mix (countable and uncountable, plural cake mixes)

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A powdered mixture of the dry ingredients used to produce a cake or the finished mixture before baking.


dog food

dog food (countable and uncountable, plural dog foods)

Did you just step on my blue suede shoes? You're dog food now!

(slang) Synonym of dog meat (“dead person”)


coffee liqueur

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A liqueur with coffee, such as Tia Maria or Kahlua


paloma

Martini, Bellini, Negroni, Baileys, Kahlúa, sambuca
Soju, paloma, mojito, gimlet, Frangelico, Guinness
Tequila, Manhattan, a margarita, old-fashioned
Dry vermouth and something I can't taste 'cause I'm so trashed

2020, Yoav Landau, Sam Haft (lyrics and music), “Drunk”, in zero_one, performed by The Living Tombstone:

A cocktail made with tequila, lime juice, and grapefruit soda.


ranch

ranch (countable and uncountable, plural ranches)

Recorded since 1808, farm sense since 1831. From American Spanish rancho (“small farm, group of farm huts”), in Spanish originally “group of people who eat together”, from ranchear (“to lodge or station”), from Old French ranger (“install in position”), from rang (“row, line”) (cognate with English rank)


cottage cheese

en-noun

cottage cheese (countable and uncountable, plural cottage cheeses)

First known use is from 1831 in the periodical Godey's Lady's Book. Believed to have originated because the simple cheese was usually produced in cottages from any left-over milk after making butter.

Near-synonyms: quark, mató, ricotta, tvorog

A cheese curd product with a mild flavor that is drained but not pressed so some whey remains.


urna

A wine vessel, probably the Roman urna, which contained half the quantity of the amphora.

1810, A Description of the Collection of Ancient Terracottas of the British Museum, British Museum, No. XXXIX, page 22:

The congius was the 8th part of the amphora, and the 4th of the urna: it contained 6 sextarii.

1847, Francis Adams, The Seven Books of Paulus Ægeineta, volume 3, The Sydenham Society, page 623:

It follows that the seah must equal the urna, and the hin equal 2 Attic choes.

1903, Sir Charles Warren, The Ancient Cubit and Our Weights and Measures, page 89:

(historical) A Roman unit of liquid measure reckoned as the volume of 40 Roman pounds of wine and equivalent to about 13 L although differing slightly over time.


Jaffa cake

(chiefly British) A small, biscuit-like cake with a base of firm sponge, a layer of orange jelly, and a chocolate covering.


packed lunch

I forgot my packed lunch when I left for work this morning.

A meal, sandwiches or anything packed and intended to be eaten away from home; especially, one packed at home as opposed to a portable packaged lunch from a vendor.


picnic

→ Japanese: ピクニック (pikunikku)

→ Punjabi: ਪਿਕਨਿਕ (piknik)

→ Polish: piknik

→ Swahili: pikniki

We went out for a picnic in the forest.

An informal social gathering, usually in a natural outdoor setting, to which the participants bring their own food and drink.

We remind the guests that dealing with this problem is no picnic, and to be patient.

"Don't put your hand on me," said Uncle Henry irritably. "I'm crawling with lice. War would be a picnic if it wasn't for lice and dysentery. […]

1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC:

(obsolete) An entertainment at which each person contributed some dish to a common table.

Smoked picnics of medium weights - from 6 to 8 pounds - are selling at wholesale at present for about half the price of fancy hams. Standard bacon of medium weights is another smoked product that is selling […]

1923, The National Provisioner, page 50:

Smoked picnics (calas) are pork shoulders with the butt portion removed just beyond the knuckle bone. Shoulder butts are boneless […]

1940, War Department Technical Manual, page 53:

Smoked picnics are sold whole and usually fully cooked. When sold boneless they are called pork shoulder roll.
COOKING HAMS AND PICNICS
Roasting : Roast a fully cooked ham or picnic according to […]

2001, Good Housekeeping, The Good Housekeeping Illustrated Cookbook, Hearst Books, →ISBN, page 218:

A cut of pork from the shoulder area (above the front leg) of a pig.


silphium

From Latin silphium, from Ancient Greek σίλφιον (sílphion).

Of all the mysteries of ancient Rome, silphium is among the most intriguing. Romans loved the herb as much as we love chocolate. They used silphium as perfume, as medicine, as an aphrodisiac and turned it into a condiment, called laser, that they poured on to almost every dish.

2022 May 15, James Tapper, “Caesar’s favourite herb was the Viagra of ancient Rome. Until climate change killed it off”, in The Observer:

(historical) A plant, thought to be extinct, used in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome in cooking and as a contraceptive.

σίλφιον

a plant, thought to be extinct, used in Ancient Greece and Rome


soupspoon

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A spoon for eating soup, typically smaller than a tablespoon and larger than a dessert spoon, characterised by having a round bowl rather than the usual oval bowl of other types of spoon.


undercut

From Middle English undercutten, equivalent to under- + cut.

The notch cut in a tree to direct its fall when being felled.

The underside of a sirloin of beef; the fillet.


undercut

en-verb

undercut (third-person singular simple present undercuts, present participle undercutting, simple past and past participle undercut)

undercuts (present singular third-person)
undercutting (participle present)
undercut (participle past)
undercut (past)

To create an overhang by cutting away material from underneath.

подрязвам

to create an overhang by cutting away material from underneath


foxy

(slang) The recreational drug 5-methoxy-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT).


foxy

en-adj

foxy (comparative foxier, superlative foxiest)

foxier (comparative)
foxiest (superlative)


all the tea in China

Because of the large amount of tea in China, and its value.

I wouldn't trade you away for all the tea in China.

KIRK: Ha, ha, ha. Okay, the truth. I am from what, on your calendar, would be the late twenty-third century. I've come back in time to bring two humpback whales with me in an attempt to repopulate the species.
GILLIAN: Well, why didn't you just say so? I mean, why all the coy disguises?
KIRK: You want the details?
GILLIAN: Oh! I wouldn't miss this for all the tea in China.

1986, William Shatner, Catherine Hicks, 1:07:18 from the start, in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Paramount Pictures, →OCLC:

(idiomatic, hyperbolic) Something very valuable or priceless.

千金不換 /千金不换

wouldn't exchange for a thousand pieces of gold

a világ minden kincséért

FOR all the tea…; it's not commonly used otherwise


pastis

en-noun

pastis (countable and uncountable, plural pastises)


chum

From Chinook Jargon tzum (“spotted, marked”), from Chinook.


bubblegum

bubblegum (countable and uncountable, plural bubblegums)

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(usually uncountable) A sweet chewing gum formulated to be stretchy so the chewer can blow bubbles with it.

Born in the small town of Rockwood, east Tennessee, Carter’s bubblegum sound and mini-bad boy image made him the definitive millennium child star.

2022 November 6, Emma Garland, “Aaron Carter was the millennium’s bubblegum bad boy – and the victim of a rapacious music industry”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(music, sometimes derogatory) A type of pop music marked by sweetness, pep and charm (rather than depth or complexity).


bubblegum

(by extension) Sweet, perky, or youthful.


fusty

en-adj

fusty (comparative fustier, superlative fustiest)

fustier (comparative)
fustiest (superlative)

From Old French fust (“wood”) (modern French fût (“cask”)), from Latin fūstis (“a cudgel”).
Compare Scots foosty.

In contrast to exploitation or suppression or even alienation, involution is presented as part of the natural order of things—like bad weather. You can’t point fingers at an abstraction or rally against a fusty term from an anthropology text.

2021 May 14, Yi-Ling Liu, “China’s “Involuted” Generation”, in The New Yorker:

An anonymously sourced report by one of Britain’s freewheeling tabloid newspapers has sparked a debate over both tabloid journalistic ethics and sexism in Parliament, leading some to question whether the institution is capable of shedding its fusty reputation and becoming an inclusive workplace.

2022 April 26, Stephen Castle, Megan Specia, “U.K. Tabloid Accuses Lawmaker of ‘Basic Instinct’ Move, Highlighting Sexism in Parliament”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Oh sweet surprise - oh dear delight
To find it undisputed quite -
All musty, fusty rules despite,
That Art is wrong and Nature right!

1893, W. S. Gilbert, Utopia, Limited, Act II:

(figuratively, by extension) Old-fashioned, refusing to change or update.

старомоден

old-fashioned, refusing to change or update


strata

The bread is layered with the filling to produce strata (layers).

Egg dishes, stratas, and casserole recipes are delicious for breakfast and work well in the slow cooker.

2014, Slow Cooking for Two (Mendocino Press)

(US, cooking) A kind of layered casserole dish in American cuisine.


brown bread

en-noun

brown bread (usually uncountable, plural brown breads)


omnivorous

From omni- + -vorous; from the Latin omni, all and -vore.

Having a diet which is neither exclusively carnivorous nor exclusively herbivorous.

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having the ability to eat both animal and vegetable food


herbivorous

en-adj

herbivorous (comparative more herbivorous, superlative most herbivorous)

more herbivorous (comparative)
most herbivorous (superlative)

/(h)ɜːɹˈbɪvəɹəs/

From New Latin herbivorus, from Latin herba (“grass”) and -vorus, from vorō (“I eat”).

One example of "an herbivorous fungus" is included among the terrestrial animal experiments

2002, Ronald H. Karlson, Dynamics of Coral Communities, page 96:


insectivorous

insectivorous (comparative more insectivorous, superlative most insectivorous)

more insectivorous (comparative)
most insectivorous (superlative)

From Latin insectum (“insect”) and -vorus, from vorō (“to eat”), equivalent to insectivore + -ous or insect + -i- + -vorous.

Researchers in the Netherlands have linked neonicotinoids found in surface water to declines in insectivorous birds and there is widespread scientific evidence that neonicotinoids harm bees – reducing their ability to pollinate plants, for instance.

2015 November 24, Patrick Barkham, “Pesticide may be reason butterfly numbers are falling in UK, says study”, in The Guardian:


stuffed

stuffed (comparative more stuffed, superlative most stuffed)

more stuffed (comparative)
most stuffed (superlative)

We're having stuffed turkey for dinner.

The turkey is stuffed with a stuffing made of bread and herbs.

(cooking) Filled with a filling and seasoning.


unsaturated fat

en-noun

unsaturated fat (countable and uncountable, plural unsaturated fats)

unsaturated fatty acid
unsaturated fatty acid

A fat or oil, from either animal or vegetable sources, containing a high proportion of unsaturated fatty acids; will typically be liquid at room temperature; a diet high in unsaturated rather than saturated fats is thought to contribute to lower levels of cholesterol in the blood.


saturated fat

saturated fat (countable and uncountable, plural saturated fats)

saturated fatty acid
saturated fatty acid

A fat or oil, from either animal or vegetable sources, containing a high proportion of saturated fatty acids; will typically be solid at room temperature; a diet high in saturated rather than unsaturated fats is thought to contribute to higher levels of cholesterol in the blood.

飽和脂肪 /饱和脂肪

fat containing a high proportion of saturated fatty acids


polyunsaturated fat

polyunsaturated fat (plural polyunsaturated fats)

polyunsaturated fatty acid
polyunsaturated fatty acid

(organic chemistry) A fat or oil, almost exclusively from vegetable sources, containing a high proportion of polyunsaturated fatty acids.

多元不飽和脂肪 /多元不饱和脂肪

fat or oil containing a high proportion of polyunsaturated fatty acids


essential oil

Containing the essence of the plant's fragrance.

The odours of many flowers so delightful to our sense of smell, as well as the disagreeable scents of others, are owing to the exhalation of their essential oils.

1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 102:

The use of essential oils – aromatic substances derived from plants – has been around for centuries, and studies suggest certain oils offer minor benefits to sleep (lavender) or headaches (peppermint).

2020 August 12, Adrian Horton, “The dark side of wellness: behind a Netflix series on a murky industry”, in The Guardian:

A volatile oil, used to make perfumes and flavourings, especially one having the characteristic odour of the plant from which it is obtained.

եթերային յուղ

volatile oil used to make perfumes and flavourings


sample

From Middle English saumple, sample, from Old French essample (“example”), from Latin exemplum. Doublet of example and exemplum.

(cooking) A small quantity of food for tasting, typically given away for free.


scroll

From Middle English scrowle, scrolle, from earlier scrowe, scrouwe (influenced by Middle English rolle), from Old French escroe, escrowe, escrouwe (“scroll, strip of parchment”), from Frankish *skrōda (“a shred”), from Proto-Germanic *skraudō, from *skrew- (“to cut; cutting tool”), extension of *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Doublet of shred and escrow.

I ordered a glass of lemonade and a coffee scroll.

(cooking) A kind of sweet roll baked in a somewhat spiral shape.


catch on

en-verb

catch on (third-person singular simple present catches on, present participle catching on, simple past and past participle caught on)

catches on (present singular third-person)
catching on (participle present)
caught on (participle past)
caught on (past)

go the way of the dinosaurs

antonym(s) of “become commonplace or standard”

They waited for the pot roast to "catch on," sticking to the pot just enough to brown

2011, Mark Gaier, Clark Frasier, Rachel Forrest, Ron Manville, Maine Classics: More than 150 Delicious Recipes from Down East, Philadelphia: Running Press, →ISBN, page 172:

(intransitive, New England, dated, of food) To become stuck to the cooking vessel; to brown or burn slightly.


seasoning

en-noun

seasoning (countable and uncountable, plural seasonings)

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To distinctify the seasoning, add grated fresh ginger, finely minced green chili (serrano or jalapeno), or chopped fresh herbs: cilantro, mint, thyme.

“We use it in drinks. We use it in desserts. We use it in savory food. It’s in almost everything. Salt, sugar and MSG – I always joke that they’re the Chinese Trinity of seasonings.”

2024 January 2, Maggie Hiufu Wong, “MSG is the most misunderstood ingredient of the century. That’s finally changing”, in CNN:

(cooking) Something used to add taste or flavour to food, such as salt and pepper or other condiment, herb or spice.


amber nectar

amber nectar (usually uncountable, plural amber nectars)

Fortunately, once in the beergarden with the good Doctor and a cold and frothy schooner of the amber nectar, everything fell into place.

2004, Ken Ewell, Voyages of Discovery: A Manly Adventure in the Lands Down Under, page 22:

The Czech lands have been famous for centuries for producing some of the finest amber nectar in the world.

2010, Neil Wilson, Mark Baker, Prague, Lonely Planet, page 180:

After my spot has finished, I weave my way to the bar for a nice cool bottle of Stella, and as I'm swigging down the amber nectar, who should walk into the room but my newfound nemesis: Dave Doyle.

2010, Russ Harris, Stand Up Strummer: A Tale of Sex, Love and Side-effects, page 216:

This was one of our personal little wins over the army, and as soldiers do, we love to down a few amber nectars from time to time.

2010, Rob Maylor, SAS Sniper: The Rob Maylor Story, unnumbered page:


lager

→ Irish: lágar

→ Scottish Gaelic: làgar

→ Welsh: lager

From German Lagerbier (“beer made for storing”), from Lager (“store”). Cognate with native English lair.

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A type of beer, brewed using a bottom-fermenting yeast.


marshmallow

en-noun

marshmallow (countable and uncountable, plural marshmallows)

Dutch: marshmallow

French: marshmallow

German: Marshmallow

Japanese: マシュマロ (mashumaro)

Korean: 마시멜로 (masimello)

Portuguese: marshmallow

Russian: маршмэ́ллоу (maršmɛ́llou)

/mɑːʃˈmæləʊ/

/ˈmɑɹʃˌmɛl.oʊ/

/ˈmɑɹʃˌmæl.oʊ/

From Old English mersċmealwe, corresponding to marsh + mallow.

The Disagreeable Girl is a female of the genus homo persuasion, built around a digestive apparatus that possesses marked marshmallow proclivities.

1906, Elbert Hubbard, Love, Life and Work:

It was an apple marshmallow sundae, I recollect. I dug my spoon into it with an assumption of gaiety which I was far from feeling.

December 1915, P. G. Wodehouse, “My Battle with Drink”, in Vanity Fair:

(countable, uncountable) A type of confectionery, originally (since Ancient Egyptian times) made from this plant, but now generally made of sugar or corn syrup, gelatin that has been presoftened in water, gum arabic, flavorings, and sometimes beaten egg whites, all whipped to a spongy consistency.


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sambuca

sambuca (usually uncountable, plural sambucas)

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Borrowed from Italian sambuca, from Latin sambūcus (“elder tree”), considered to be from the instrument name sambūca for its being made of elderwood.

An Italian liqueur made from elderberries and flavoured with licorice, traditionally served with 3 coffee beans that represent health, wealth and fortune (or past, present and future).


beefy

en-adj

beefy (comparative beefier, superlative beefiest)

beefier (comparative)
beefiest (superlative)

The barman was a big, beefy guy with his sleeves rolled up and tattoos on his arms.

Grumping indignantly, he said, "By ginger, a nice blanky thing to lose a good job and risk being dam' near killed by Peabody for a beefy married woman. I tell you she weighs over fifteen stone, absolutely."

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 82:

The software slows down even a beefy computer.


chili dog

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Suckin' on a chili dog outside the Tastee Freez / Diane sittin' on Jacky's lap, got his hand between her knees.

1982 August 9, John Mellencamp, “Jack & Diane”, Warner Music Group


hot dog

1894 (US college slang) from hot + dog (in reference to supposed source of the meat), both the sense of frankfurter in a roll, and of show-off.

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Don't forget to buy some hot dogs to grill and some buns to put them on.

Hot dogs and beans are a traditional favorite.

He ordered a hot dog with everything on it.

A food item (dish) consisting of a frankfurter or wiener and (usually) a hot dog bun, with toppings such as ketchup, mustard, relish, sauerkraut, onions, cheese, etc.

(New Zealand) A battered, deep-fried sausage or saveloy on a stick; a corn dog.

primarily verbal teasing from both male and female students, ranging from statements that the student had a "hot dog in her pants" and that she had "sex with hot dogs." to graffiti that "Jane is a hot dog bitch."

1994, Sexual Harassment in Education, page 26:

It started in the fall of 1990, early in seventh grade, when two boys told her, "I hear you have a hot dog in your pants."
girls were now making hot dog remarks. the counselor maintained—incorrectly—that he was powerless to stop it

1995, The Guide to American Law Supplement, page 347:

How 'bout I put my hot dog in your bun?

1996, Richard Sandomir, Life for Real Dummies: A Reference for the Totally Clueless, page 5:

In the fall of 1990, when she was in the seventh grade, classmates spread the word that Doe had a hot dog in her pants.

1999, Louis I. Gerdes, Sexual Harassment, page 118:

But what it is basically the in and the out, the hot dog splicing through the doughnut.

I'm just saying, you being a mama, it's time to clear the cobwebs. You know what I'm saying? Put a banana in the monkey. You know, hot dog in your bun.

2019 Hot Blood, Hot Thoughts, Hot Deeds, Empire season 5 episode 13

Coordinate term: hamburger

(US, education, informal) Describing the shape of a rectangular piece of paper folded in half so that it forms a long rectangle.


amaranth

en-noun

amaranth (countable and uncountable, plural amaranths)

Borrowed from French amarante, or directly from its etymon Latin amarantus (the word ending influenced by plant names derived from Ancient Greek ἄνθος (ánthos, “a bloom, blossom, flower”)), from Ancient Greek ἀμάραντος (amárantos, “eternal, undying, unfading, unwilting; amaranth; everlasting flower”) (modern Greek αμάραντος (amárantos)), from ᾰ̓- (ă-, the alpha privativum, a prefix forming words having a sense opposite to the word or stem to which it is attached) + μαραίνω (maraínō, “to shrivel, wither”) + -τος (-tos, suffix forming adjectives).

edible amaranth

Chinese amaranth, Ganges amaranth, willow-leaf amaranth; Amaranthus tricolor

They [the Aztecs] considered the plant sacred and it played a key role in many rituals. The Catholic Spaniards were particularly disturbed by the practice of mixing a little blood from human sacrifices into amaranth dough, baking it into cakes which were then broken up and eaten by the faithful. […] In the nineteenth century there were reports of rosaries being made out of the stuff, and popped amaranth, mixed with honey, is still used to make a sweet called alegria ('happiness') in Mexico.

2016, Kassia St Clair, “Amaranth”, in The Secret Lives of Colour, London: John Murray, →ISBN:

(cooking) The seed of these plants, used as a cereal.


chili

en-noun

chili (countable and uncountable, plural chilis or chilies)

→ Welsh: tsili

Borrowed from Spanish chile, from Classical Nahuatl chīlli.

Capsicum—the dried ripe fruit of Capsicum fastigiatum—is also known as Chilly pepper, Chillies, Guinea, or pod pepper, and is chiefly brought from Zanzibar. The several varieties differ in shape and size, are of a red colour, and filled with numerous red-brown, pungent seeds.

1874, Finlay Dun, “Peppers”, in Veterinary Medicines: Their Actions and Uses, 4th edition, New York, N.Y.: William Wood & Company, →OCLC, pages 442–443:

Kama Indian Bistro, […] Everything is made from scratch, including the spice blends and sauces; the ingredients are quality; and the heat is no-holds-barred. Planks of crispy, "chilly" potatoes and elegant, delicately flavored shrimp Sunnaina in white-wine garlic-tomato concassé are hits.

2014, Jennifer Olvera, “Suburban Stunners, Stalwarts & Surprises”, in Amy Lyons, editor, Food Lovers’ Guide to Chicago: The Best Restaurants, Markets & Local Culinary Offerings (Food Lovers’ Series), 2nd edition, Guilford, Conn.: Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, page 187:

(countable) The pungent, spicy fresh or dried fruit of any of several cultivated varieties of capsicum peppers, used in cooking.

(uncountable) Powdered chili pepper, used as a spice or flavouring in cooking.

(Indian Chinese cuisine) A spicy stew of chicken or paneer, capsicum and onion, eaten as an appetizer.


chili

Ellipsis of chili con carne, from Spanish chile con carne (literally “chili with meat”).

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(chiefly US) A dish made with chili peppers and other ingredients, such as beans and beef.


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Unadapted borrowing from Spanish chile con carne (literally “chili with meat”), influenced by chili.

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A dish of meat and beans in a tomato sauce flavoured with chili peppers.


soda bread

en-noun

soda bread (usually uncountable, plural soda breads)

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(cooking) Bread made using sour milk and baking soda as a raising agent, rather than yeast; common in Ireland.

pa de soda

bread made using sour milk and baking soda


couscous

couscous (countable and uncountable, plural couscouses)

Borrowed from French couscous, from Arabic كُسْكُس (kuskus) from Northern Saharan Berber seksu or from Tuareg keskesu. First use appears c. 1593.

Karou took the plate of couscous and vegetables.

2012, Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight, →ISBN:

A pasta of North African origin made of crushed and steamed semolina.