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▪ I. crackling, vbl. n.|ˈkræklɪŋ|
[-ing1.]
1. The action of the verb crackle; the production of a rapid succession of slight cracking sounds; crepitation.
1599T. M[oufet] Silkwormes 51 With wondrous crackling filling both our eares. 1611Bible Eccl. vii. 6 The crackling of thornes vnder a pot. 1732Arbuthnot Rules of Diet i. 252 Dry Scurvy with crackling of the Bones. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. iii. 30 The crackling of the frozen snow beneath our..feet.
fig.1712Addison Spect. No. 381 ⁋13 Those little Cracklings of Mirth and Folly. 1862Carlyle Fredk. Gt. (1865) III. ix. ii. 85 Gay bantering humour in him, cracklings, radiations.
2. a. The crisp skin or rind of roast pork (usually scored with parallel cuts).
1709W. King Cookery 486 But if it lies too long, the cracklings pall'd. 1796H. Glasse Cookery iii. 17 When you roast a loin..cut the skin across, to make the crackling eat the better. 1823Lamb Elia, Roast Pig, There is no flavour comparable..to that of the crisp, well-watched, not over-roasted, crackling, as it is well called. 1882Mrs. H. Reeve Cookery & Housek. 195 The object is to keep the crackling from scorching and to render it crisp.
b. In Cambridge University slang, applied to the three bars of velvet on the sleeve of the gown worn by students of St. John's College. (In reference to the nick-name ‘hogs’).
1873in Slang Dict. 1891Proc. Soc. Antiquaries 15 Jan. 217 Richly laced over the upper part of the arm, the ‘crackling’ as it would be called at Cambridge.
c. Attractive women collectively; a bit of crackling, an attractive woman. colloq.
1949Partridge Dict. Slang (ed. 3) 1023/1 Crackling... Usu. bit of crackling, a girl. 1958M. Kelly Christmas Egg iii. 180, I never get those jobs with nice bits of blonde crackling thrown in. 1968P. Dickinson Skin Deep iii. 32 ‘You know her?’ ‘I do, sir. Nice bit of crackling, she is.’ 1970A. Fowles Dupe Negative vii. 73 She was no lady... Sir Bernard, in his rags to riches climb, must have retained a preference for crackling.
3. a. The residue of tallow-melting, used for feeding dogs. (Usually pl.) Cf. cracon.
1621Acts Jas. VI (1814) 628 (Jam.) That the candle⁓makeris prowyid thame selffis of houssis for melting of thair tallowe and cracklingis at some remote pairtis of the toun. 1844J. F. W. Johnston Lect. Agric. Chem. 884 Cracklings are the skinny parts of the suet from which the tallow has been for the most part squeezed out. c1865Letheby, in Circ. Sc. I. 94/1 The residue is sold under the name of greaves or cracklings, and is used for feeding dogs.
b. dial. and U.S. ‘The crisp residue of hogs' fat after the lard is fried out. crackling-bread is corn-bread interspersed with cracklings’ (Bartlett). Also fig.
1834D. Crockett Life xvi. 106, I looked like a pretty cracklin ever to get to Congress! 1835A. B. Longstreet Georgia Scenes 24, I am perhaps..the best man at a horse swap that ever stole cracklins out of his mammy's fat gourd. 1843W. T. Thompson Major Jones's Courtship ix. 36, I haint eat nothing but..sassingers, and cracklin-bread ever sense the killin commenced. 1846J. J. Hooper Adv. Simon Suggs (1851) x. 133 ‘Ef them fellers aint done to a cracklin,’ he muttered. 1883Gilmour Mongols (1884) 27 A little fat melted in the pot, the cracklings carefully removed. 1887Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 31 Dec. 2/4 Half dozen pones of cracklin' bread, made from Georgia-raised hogs. 1946E. B. Thompson Amer. Daughter 84 There was the rendering of lard that brought on crackling bread.
4. = cracknel. Now dial. [= F. craquelin.]
1598W. Phillips Linschoten's Voy. i. xxx. 58 A great siluer or guilt vessell full of bread baked like cracklinges. 1847–78in Halliwell. 1875Parish Sussex Dial., Cracklings, crisp cakes.
5. = crackle n. 3, crackle-ware.
1876Ouida Moths ix. 109 Sipping tea..in an alcove lined with celadon and crackling.
†6. crackling-pokes (Sc.): bags for holding explosives in old naval warfare. Obs.
1549Compl. Scot. vi. 41 Boitis man bayr stanis & lyme pottis ful of lyme in the craklene pokis to the top.
▪ II. ˈcrackling, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That crackles; see the verb.
1567Drant Horace's Epist. xvii. F j, If crackling cartes, if tauernes noyse if stiffling dust disease the. a1635Corbet Poems (1807) 226 Makinge thy peace with Heaven..With holy meale and cracklinge salt. 1757Dyer Fleece i. 109 I knew a careful swain, Who gave them to the crackling flames. 1870Huxley Lay Serm. i. (ed. 5) 3 Crackling wit.
Hence ˈcracklingly adv.
1611Cotgr., Frioler, to consume..cracklingly, or with a noise, as fire does stubble. 1855Chamb. Jrnl. IV. 66 As he creeps cracklingly along [through a wood]. |