单词 | feaster |
释义 | feastern.ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > entertainment with food > entertainer or giver of feast feast-maker?a1422 feastera1450 banqueter1542 banquetant?1615 treater1692 a1450 in R. Morris Legends Holy Rood (1871) 220 At þe feest of mesure met, Wyn of water god wroȝt well, Neuer festour fedde better. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Matt. xiv. f. 18 A feaster and a feader of the bodies. 1587 G. Turberville Tragicall Tales f. 22 The feaster prayde eche one to take his place. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Festivant A feaster or feast maker. 1741 D. Watson tr. Horace Odes Epodes & Carmen Seculare i. xxviii. 118 Tantalus, the Father of Pelops and Feaster of the Gods, and Tithonus..are dead. 2. A guest at or participant in a feast; a person dining on a large or splendid meal. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > feasting > [noun] > feaster feastera1500 banqueter1549 convival1615 convive1651 convivatora1656 junketer1721 banqueteer1821 junketeer1825 feastress1837 tuck-hunter1840 a1500 Disciplina Clericalis in Western Reserve Univ. Bull. (1919) 22 70 (MED) A feste to the delectacioun, that is to say, of felawship and festers. c1550 Clariodus (1830) v. l. 1414 To pase unto the hall, And glaid the feisters. 1670 J. Caryl Expos. with Practicall Observ. 65 As the feasters are temperate, so their appetite and satisfaction are perpetually interchangable. 1813 W. Scott Rokeby iii. xiv. 122 Among the feasters waited near, Sorrow. 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 187 What music on the feasters fell. 1909 A. C. Laut Canada vi. 101 According to Indian custom, no feaster dare leave uneaten food on his plate. 2001 Sunday Mail (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 15 Apr. 98 The place was full to capacity with happy diners obviously enjoying a good night out, judging by the good-natured chatter of fellow feasters. 3. A person in the habit of feasting; (hence) one who lives luxuriously, a hedonist, an epicure. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > gastronomy > [noun] > gastronome or epicure viandera1556 sweet-lips1580 deipnosophist1581 feaster1585 epicure1586 friand1598 palatist1620 goinfre1643 palate-mana1661 palate-peoplea1661 bon-vivant1695 belly-critica1711 gourmand1758 turtle-eatera1774 connoisseur1796 gullet-fancier1805 gastrophilist1814 gastrologer1820 gastronomer1820 gastrophile1820 gourmet1820 palatician1821 gastrologist1822 gastronome1823 gastronomist1825 degustator1833 aristologist1835 opsophagist1854 gastrosoph1855 bon viveur1865 gastrosopher1894 foodist1906 foodie1980 1585 W. Chub Two Fruitfull & Godly Serm. 19 They ordeyned & obserued many holy dayes, which bredd and hatched many idellers, Idolaters, feasters gamsters.., and such like abuses. a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 84 Thou shalt have more Ioy..then the worldly Feasters have. a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) 50 Implying, that the Romans once plain and thrifty were now become feasters. 1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. i. 29 Lud was hardy, and bold in Warr, in Peace a jolly Feaster. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey I. iii. 401 While lawless feasters in thy palace sway. 1806 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 4 231 The pampered feaster. 1986 J. Wain Dear Shadows 20 In dealing with Nevill one was dealing with a serious productive mind, as well as with a feaster and celebrator. 2009 M. Washington Sojourner Truth's Amer. iii. 45 Dutch men and women in America and Holland were..lusty drinkers, feasters, and smokers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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