单词 | crackling |
释义 | cracklingn. 1. The action of crackle v.; the production of a rapid succession of slight cracking sounds; crepitation. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [noun] > crackling crackling1599 crickle-crackle1637 crepitation1656 decrepitation1669 crinkling1823 crackle1833 crinkle1859 snap, crackle, pop1954 1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 51 With wondrous crackling filling both our eares. 1611 Bible (King James) Ecclus. vii. 6 The crackling of thornes vnder a pot. View more context for this quotation 1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet i. 252 Dry Scurvy with crackling of the Bones. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. iii. 30 The crackling of the frozen snow beneath our..feet. 2. a. The crisp skin or rind of roast pork (usually scored with parallel cuts). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > pork > [noun] > rind swardc1430 crisp1675 crackling1708 spine1847 swad1877 1708 W. King Art of Cookery 19 But if it lie too long the Crackling's pall'd. 1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery i. 4 When you roast a Loin..cut the Skin across, to make the Crackling eat the better. 1823 C. Lamb Diss. Roast Pig in Elia There is no flavour comparable..to that of the crisp, well-watched, not over-roasted, crackling, as it is well called. 1882 Mrs. H. Reeve Cookery & Housek. 195 The object is to keep the crackling from scorching and to render it crisp. b. 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 nickname ‘hogs’). ΚΠ 1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 132 Crackle, or Crackling, the scored rind on a roast leg or loin of pork; hence applied to the velvet bars on the gowns of the students at St. John's College, Cambridge, long called ‘Hogs’. 1891 Proc. 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. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > [noun] > attractive person > woman morsela1450 honeypot1618 enchantera1704 peach1710 enchantress1713 sparkler1713 enslaver1728 witch1740 fascinatress1799 honey1843 biscuit1855 fairy1862 baby1863 scorcher1881 cracker1891 peacherino1896 hot tamale1897 mink1899 hotty?1913 babe1915 a bit of skirt1916 cookie1917 tomato1918 snuggle-pup1922 nifty1923 brahma1925 package1931 ginch1934 blonde bombshell1942 beast1946 smasher1948 a bit of crackling1949 nymphet1955 nymphette1961 fox1963 beaver1968 superbabe1970 brick house1977 nubile1977 yummy mummy1993 the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > [noun] > attractive person > woman > collectively witchery1777 local talent1947 talent1947 crackling1949 1949 E. Partridge Dict. Slang (ed. 3) 1023/1 Crackling... Usu. bit of crackling, a girl. 1958 M. Kelly Christmas Egg iii. 180 I never get those jobs with nice bits of blonde crackling thrown in. 1968 P. Dickinson Skin Deep iii. 32 ‘You know her?’ ‘I do, sir. Nice bit of crackling, she is.’ 1970 A. 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 plural) Cf. cracon n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > greasy or fatty material > [noun] > derived from animals > tallow > refuse of crackling1621 scratching1899 the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > pet-food > dog food cracona1300 crawkec1325 quarryc1330 croote1382 criton1388 crap1499 dog meat1505 dog's meat1555 cratchens1601 greaves1614 lap1743 dog biscuit1809 dog food1848 critling1851 cracklingc1865 puppy biscuit1895 kibble1965 1621 Acts 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. 1844 J. 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. c1865 H. Letheby in J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 94/1 The residue is sold under the name of greaves or cracklings, and is used for feeding dogs. b. dialect 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 figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fat or oil > [noun] > strip of pig's fat or crackling scratchingc1440 scraps1823 crackling1834 fat-back1903 the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > [noun] > maize bread pone1634 Indian bread1654 maize bread1663 kankie1735 hoecake1745 corn-bread1775 pone breadc1785 crackling-bread1834 Awendaw1847 piki1859 the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > meat dishes > [noun] > pork dishes > crackling crackling1834 chicharron1845 1834 D. Crockett Narr. Life xvi. 106 I looked like a pretty cracklin ever to get to Congress! 1835 A. 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. 1844 W. T. Thompson Major Jones's Courtship (ed. 2) ix. 74 I haint eat nothing but..sassingers, and cracklin-bread ever sense the killin commenced. 1846 J. J. Hooper Some Adventures Simon Suggs (1851) x. 133 ‘Ef them fellers aint done to a cracklin,’ he muttered. 1853 J. G. Baldwin Flush Times Alabama 160 Scarcely eating anything,..a light condiment of ‘cracklin bread’, and a half pint of hog-brains. 1883 J. Gilmour Among Mongols ii. 27 A little fat melted in the pot, the cracklings carefully removed. 1887 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 31 Dec. 2/4 Half dozen pones of cracklin' bread, made from Georgia-raised hogs. 1946 E. B. Thompson Amer. Daughter 84 There was the rendering of lard that brought on crackling bread. 4. = cracknel n. Now dialect. [= French craquelin.] ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > biscuit > [noun] > other biscuits dorcake14.. cracknelc1440 hard breada1500 crackling1598 Naples biscuit1650 gingerbread man1686 chocolate biscuit1702 biscotin1723 sponge biscuit1736 maple biscuita1753 butter biscuit1758 nut1775 Oliver biscuit1786 funeral biscuit1790 rock biscuit?1790 ratafia1801 finger biscuit1812 Savoy drop1816 lady's finger1818 snap1819 Abernethy1830 pretzel1831 wine-biscuit1834 gingersnap1838 captain's biscuit1843 lebkuchen1847 simnel1854 sugar cookie1854 peppernut1862 McClellan pie1863 Savoy ring1866 Brown George1867 beaten biscuit1876 digestive1876 Osborne1876 Bath Oliver1878 marie1878 boer biscuit1882 charcoal biscuit1885 biscotti1886 fairing1888 snickerdoodle1889 pfeffernuss1891 zwieback1894 Nice1895 Garibaldi biscuit1896 Oswegoc1900 squashed fly1900 amaretto1905 boerebeskuit1905 Romary1905 petit beurre1906 Oswego biscuit1907 soetkoekie1910 Oreo1912 custard cream1916 Anzac1923 sweet biscuit1929 langue de chat1931 Bourbon biscuit1932 Afghan1934 flapjack1935 Florentine1936 chocolate chip cookie1938 choc chip cookie1940 Toll House cookie1940 tuile1943 pizzelle1949 black and white1967 Romany Cream1970 papri1978 1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. xxx. 58/1 A great siluer or guilt vessell full of bread baked like cracklinges. 1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words 1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. Cracklings, crisp cakes. 5. = crackle n. 3, crackle-ware. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun] > porcelain > porcelain china with specific decoration dragon china1786 cracknel1821 crackle1867 crackling1880 1880 ‘Ouida’ Moths I. ix. 300 Sipping tea..in an alcove lined with celadon and crackling. ΚΠ c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 33 Boitis man, bayr stanis & lyme pottis ful of lyme in the craklene pokis to the top. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). cracklingadj. That crackles; see the verb. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [adjective] > crackling crackling1567 decrepitating1819 crinkly1826 splintering1828 crumpling1854 crepitant1855 crackly1859 crickling1873 1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Pistles in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Fjv If crackling cartes, if tauernes noyse, If stiffling dust disease the. a1635 R. Corbet Poems (1807) 226 Makinge thy peace with Heaven..With holy meale and cracklinge salt. 1757 J. Dyer Fleece i. 9 I knew a careful swain, Who gave them to the crackling flames. 1870 T. H. Huxley Lay Serm. (ed. 5) i. 3 Crackling wit. Derivatives ˈcracklingly adv. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [adverb] > crackling cracklingly1611 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Frioler, to consume..cracklingly, or with a noise, as fire does stubble. 1855 Chambers's Jrnl. 4 66 As he creeps cracklingly along [through a wood]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.c1550adj.1567 |
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