gheen.

Brit.

/ɡiː/, U.S.

/ɡi/

Forms: Also 1600s gee, 1600s–1800s ghi.

Etymology: < Hindi ghī, Sanskrit ghrta, < ghr to sprinkle.

Butter made from buffalo's or cow's milk, clarified by boiling, so as to resemble oil in consistency.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > butter > [noun] > types of butter

May-butter?a1425

clarified butter1562

pot-butter1616

manteca1622

grass butter1648

green butter1654

drawn butter1661

cacao butter1662

ghee1665

rowen1673

ruskin1679

orange butter1696

whey-buttera1722

rowen butter1725

fairy butter1747

grease1788

Cambridge butter1830

stubble-butter1856

black jack1858

maître d'hôtel butter1861

Normandy butter1868

creamery butter1881

pound butter1888

renovated butter1888

samn1888

process butter1898

pool butter1940

garlic butter1942

yak butter1962

Normandy1973

cannabutter1994

1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 100 Butter, Gee, or Moccon.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 33 But they will drink Milk and boil'd Butter, which they call Ghe.

1732 I. Pyke in Philos. Trans. 1731–2 (Royal Soc.) 37 233 Take the White of five or six Eggs, and four Ounces of Ghee.

1816 ‘Quiz’ Grand Master ii. 51 [He] begs ‘from master a rupee, To go to the bazar for ghee’.

1830 T. B. Macaulay R. Montgomery's Poems in Ess. (1854) 122 He asked pardon of him who carried the dog, and bought it for a measure of rice and a pot of ghee.

1873 H. Blochmann tr. Abdul Fazl 'Allami Ain i Akbari I. 130 Most of them get..4s. of g'hí, and half a man of rice.

1879 E. Arnold Light of Asia v. 130 Bright tongues of flame Hissing and curling as they licked the gifts Of ghee and spices.

1939 M. Pallis Peaks & Lamas ii. 21 In most districts the village shop can be relied on for flour, rice, lentils, ghi (clarified butter), sugar, onions and pepper.

1957 Encycl. Brit. X. 323/2 Ghee... The best is prepared from butter of the milk of cows, the less esteemed from that of buffaloes.

1959 Times 31 Dec. 10/6 A ramshackle bus which smelt of packed humanity, spiced with garlic, ghi, [etc.].

1967 R. Singha & R. Massey Indian Dances iv. 59 A small diva (oil-lamp) which burnt ghee (clarified butter) was placed on a salver.

1971 Illustr. Weekly India 4 Apr. 31/3 I tried to retaliate by objecting to his eating spiced food cooked in ghee.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations, as ghee-bowl, ghee-pot; ghee-fed adj.

ΚΠ

1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 545/2 Its ventricose body firmly imbedded in a ghee-bowl.

1844 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. India 350 The slim wasted form of a Newmarket jockey, elbowing a fat ghee-fed Baboo.

1889 Voice (N.Y.) 7 Mar. We would let go the drop of ghee rather than upset the gheepot.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	ghee
释义	gheen. Brit. /ɡiː/, U.S. /ɡi/ Forms: Also 1600s gee, 1600s–1800s ghi. Etymology: < Hindi ghī, Sanskrit ghrta, < ghr to sprinkle. Butter made from buffalo's or cow's milk, clarified by boiling, so as to resemble oil in consistency. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > butter > [noun] > types of butter May-butter?a1425 clarified butter1562 pot-butter1616 manteca1622 grass butter1648 green butter1654 drawn butter1661 cacao butter1662 ghee1665 rowen1673 ruskin1679 orange butter1696 whey-buttera1722 rowen butter1725 fairy butter1747 grease1788 Cambridge butter1830 stubble-butter1856 black jack1858 maître d'hôtel butter1861 Normandy butter1868 creamery butter1881 pound butter1888 renovated butter1888 samn1888 process butter1898 pool butter1940 garlic butter1942 yak butter1962 Normandy1973 cannabutter1994 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 100 Butter, Gee, or Moccon. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 33 But they will drink Milk and boil'd Butter, which they call Ghe. 1732 I. Pyke in Philos. Trans. 1731–2 (Royal Soc.) 37 233 Take the White of five or six Eggs, and four Ounces of Ghee. 1816 ‘Quiz’ Grand Master ii. 51 [He] begs ‘from master a rupee, To go to the bazar for ghee’. 1830 T. B. Macaulay R. Montgomery's Poems in Ess. (1854) 122 He asked pardon of him who carried the dog, and bought it for a measure of rice and a pot of ghee. 1873 H. Blochmann tr. Abdul Fazl 'Allami Ain i Akbari I. 130 Most of them get..4s. of g'hí, and half a man of rice. 1879 E. Arnold Light of Asia v. 130 Bright tongues of flame Hissing and curling as they licked the gifts Of ghee and spices. 1939 M. Pallis Peaks & Lamas ii. 21 In most districts the village shop can be relied on for flour, rice, lentils, ghi (clarified butter), sugar, onions and pepper. 1957 Encycl. Brit. X. 323/2 Ghee... The best is prepared from butter of the milk of cows, the less esteemed from that of buffaloes. 1959 Times 31 Dec. 10/6 A ramshackle bus which smelt of packed humanity, spiced with garlic, ghi, [etc.]. 1967 R. Singha & R. Massey Indian Dances iv. 59 A small diva (oil-lamp) which burnt ghee (clarified butter) was placed on a salver. 1971 Illustr. Weekly India 4 Apr. 31/3 I tried to retaliate by objecting to his eating spiced food cooked in ghee. Compounds attributive and in other combinations, as ghee-bowl, ghee-pot; ghee-fed adj. ΚΠ 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 545/2 Its ventricose body firmly imbedded in a ghee-bowl. 1844 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. India 350 The slim wasted form of a Newmarket jockey, elbowing a fat ghee-fed Baboo. 1889 Voice (N.Y.) 7 Mar. We would let go the drop of ghee rather than upset the gheepot. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1665
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