| 释义 |
saltine orig. and chiefly U.S.|ˈsɒltiːn, -ɔː-|
[f. salt n.1 + -ine4.]
A salted cracker or thin crisp biscuit.
1907Grocery World 4 Nov. 40/2 Crackers and cakes... Orange Cookies... Quaker City Mixed... Salted Strips... Saltines [etc.]. 1914H. C. Sherman Food Products viii. 287 Crackers,..Pretzels... Saltines... Soda crackers (etc.). 1933E. O'Neill Ah, Wilderness! ii. 63 Mrs. Miller. (as Norah comes back with a dish of saltines—begins ladling soup into the stack of plates before her). c1938Fortnum & Mason Price List 19/1 Southern American Biscuits..Saltines..2/3. 1958E. S. Warner Silk-Cotton Tree xvii. 177 The Head was passing around a box of soggy-looking saltines. 1969‘E. Lathen’ Murder to Go xiv. 134 ‘Would anybody..like some crackers?’.. He delayed his own departure until the appearance of a dish of saltines. 1975New Yorker 14 Apr. 104/3, I sought him out in his office at Hi Corbett Field (where he was lunching on two Cokes and some saltines crumbled into a cup of soup). 1980R. L. Duncan Brimstone v. 89 Have my lunch brought in. Milk and saltines. |