单词 | custard pie |
释义 | custard pien. 1. a. An open pie with a filling of baked custard, now typically topped with grated nutmeg; = custard tart n. at custard n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > egg dishes > [noun] > custard flawnc1300 charlet?c1390 dariole?a1400 dowset1425 flathonc1430 papina1450 flathec1450 fool1598 custarda1616 burnt cream1723 custard pudding1727 custard pie1729 flummery1747 floating island1771 custard cream1805 charlotte russea1845 crème caramel1846 cup-custard1853 pudding1896 crème renversée1912 leche flan1927 galaktoboureko1950 natillas1969 panna cotta1984 the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > pie > [noun] > other pies crustade?c1390 flampointc1390 custardc1450 standing pie1587 pudding pie1593 French pie1611 pirog1662 battalia pie1664 tourte1706 custard pie1729 raised pie1740 sea-pie1751 cream pie1816 pot-pie1823 scrap-pie1829 resurrection pie1831 chess pie1860 Washington pie1878 milk tart1896 angel pie1923 chiffon pie1929 melktert1938 plate pie1946 banoffi pie1974 banoffi1994 1729 R. Samber tr. C. Perrault Histories 3 I am going to see my grandmamma, and carry her a custard pye [Fr. une galette]. 1751 J. Stirling tr. Horace Wks. II. 309 Portius below, arch enough to swallow whole custard pies at once. 1832 L. M. Child Amer. Frugal Housewife 68 It is a general rule to put eight eggs to a quart of milk, in making custard pies. 1920 S. Lewis Main St. xvi. 198 Mr. Schnarken slipped a piece of custard pie into the clergyman's rear pocket. 1980 Cook's Mag. Nov. 70/3 Why does my custard pie become watery while it is baking? 2007 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 22 Aug. l10 My mother made a delicious custard pie that I would like to replicate. b. spec. Such a pie thrown at or pushed into a person's face, esp. as a comedic device or in protest. Also: any similar item used in this way, such as a paper plate containing whipped cream or shaving foam. Cf. pieing n.1 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > theatrical equipment or accessories > [noun] > props > types of stock-gold1713 profile stage property1854 slapstick1896 custard pie1915 practical1952 tickling stick1969 1915 Movie Mag. Nov. 36/2 They expected me to stand still and let a fellow slap me in the face with a custard pie. 1917 Clinton County Democrat (Wilmington, Ohio) 8 Mar. 3/2 The most famous impresario of knockabout fun invented the motif of the custard pie. 1925 Amer. Mercury Jan. 59/2 A President of the United States must ever be the target of intelligent ridicule and criticism, not to mention a secondary fusillade of bean-shooters, custard pies, and asafoetida bombs. 1988 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 27 Nov. vi. 14/6 An enlisted friend would disrupt a midsemester..by running into the class, throwing a custard pie in Eric's face while he lectured and running out. 2005 Scotsman (Nexis) 20 Sept. 15 He is not the first to be targeted by such self-styled anarchists whose chosen weapon is the custard pie, a phenomenon reborn from the Sixties. 2. In allusive use: comedy characterized by broad physical humour of a kind typified by the throwing of custard pies (cf. sense 1b). Cf. slapstick n. 2b. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > performance of jester or comedian > [adjective] take-off1758 slapstick1906 custard pie1917 1917 Sat. Evening Post 20 Jan. 86/2 Comedies of situation are superseding the slapstick and the custard pie. 1921 Exhibitors Trade Rev. 3 Dec. 61/2 It [sc. Harold Lloyd's Never Weaken] is built up in sequence,..gradually culminating in a riot of slapstick and custard pie. 1933 Punch 29 Nov. 609/3 [The show] is wanting in straight-cut wit, and it falls back too often on custard-pie. 1950 Picturegoer Film Ann. 144 The Marx Brothers, with their almost surrealist style, did something to the traditional custard pie and slapstick that has permanently altered them as a form of humour. Compounds attributive, with the sense ‘containing or characterized by broad physical humour typified by the throwing of custard pies’, esp. in custard pie comedy. ΚΠ 1916 Smart Set Oct. 134/2 Sennett..has graduated himself as the foremost bachelor of custard-pie arts. 1940 R. Graves & A. Hodge Long Week-end ix. 133 Charlie Chaplin..won enormous popularity..with his custard-pie comedies. 1941 P. Sturges Sullivan's Trav. a4 We'd still be making Keystone chases, bathing beauties, custard pie operas. 1969 L. S. Hollingworth in Readings in Child Psychol. 154 These young children of extremely high intellectual acumen..will fail to patronize custard-pie movies. 2013 Wells Jrnl. (Nexis) 4 July 10 From the clowns and their custard pie humour to the daring tricks of the trapeze artist, the thrills and spills of the travelling circus never fail to entertain. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1729 |
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