单词 | good friday bun |
释义 | > as lemmasGood Friday bun b. attributive, designating cakes, buns, etc., traditionally baked and eaten on Good Friday, esp. hot cross buns. Chiefly in Good Friday bun. Now rare.Traditionally some buns were baked until dry, hung up, and grated for medicinal use throughout the year. ΚΠ 1623 G. Markham Countrey Contentments, or Eng. Huswife (new ed.) vi. 223 Of these Gerts are made the good Friday pudding. 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot i. v. 17 A piece of the groaning Cake, (as they call it) which she kept religiously, with her Good Friday Bun, full forty good yeares. 1753 Trial W. Smith in J. Blackburne Reg. Ingleby (1889) p. xxviii Mixing Arsenick in a Good-Friday Cake. 1825 Manch. Guardian 2 Apr. 3/3 In the houses of some ignorant people, a Good Friday bun is still kept ‘for luck’, and sometimes there hangs from the ceiling a hard biscuit-like cake of open cross-work, baked on a Good Friday, to remain there till displaced on the next Good Friday by one of similar make. 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Pref. p. xii Best flour biscuits are made on Good Friday, to be kept as a year's supply for grating into milk or brandy and water to cure the diarrhœa; and with holes in the centre, we have seen ‘Good Friday biscuits’ hanging from the ceiling. 1905 B. Capes Jay of Italy iii. 27 He was none the less savage against circumstances—vicious, desperate, insolent with his master, as cross all over as a Good Friday bun. 1945 Strand Mag. Apr. 96 (crossword clue) A Good Friday cake that some hang up as a charm against evil (3, 5, 3) [= hot cross bun]. < as lemmas |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。