单词 | gooseberry fool |
释义 | gooseberry fooln. 1. A dessert made of cooked gooseberries, mashed or pureed, mixed with custard or (now usually) cream, and served cold. See fool n.2 ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > prepared fruit and dishes > [noun] > fool fool1653 gooseberry fool1653 raspberry fool1728 1653 True Gentlewomans Delight 6 (heading) in Choice Man. Secrets Physick & Chyrurgery How to make a Goosberrie Fool. 1686 in J. Playford Second Bk. Pleasant Musical Compan. (ed. 2) sig. M3 But now I shall treat of a Dish that is cool, A Rich-clouted Cream, or a Gooseberry-Fool. 1775 J. Jekyll Corr. 30 May I must thank you for the recipe to make gooseberry fool. 1886 J. K. Jerome Idle Thoughts (1889) 70 A large dish of gooseberry-fool that was standing to cool. 1922 A. Jekyll Kitchen Ess. 16 Stirring gently but inexorably till smooth, when it should be of the consistency of gooseberry fool. 2020 telegraph.co.uk (Nexis) 1 Apr. Rose Prince has updated this quintessentially English recipe for gooseberry fool, found in a 1914 copy of the Daily Telegraph. 2. a. Great willowherb, Epilobium hirsutum. Cf. gooseberry-pie n. (b) at gooseberry n. Compounds 2. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Onagraceae (willow-herbs) > [noun] willow-herb1578 bindweed nightshade1597 enchanter's nightshade1597 rosebay1597 willow1597 French willow1601 willow-flower1633 rose withy1650 codlings-and-cream1670 willow weed1741 gooseberry fool1785 epilobium1809 onagrad1846 cherry-pie1857 apple pie plant1858 slink-weed1858 fiddle-grass1878 epilobe1883 satin flower1891 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xix. 264 The hairy sort [of French Willow]..vulgarly known by the name of Codlins and Cream, or Goosberry Fool, from the smell of the leaves. 1887 F. H. Arnold Flora Sussex 29 Е[pilobium] Hirsutum... Great Hairy Willow-herb... Gooseberry-fool...—Ditches and wet places; very com[mon]. 1993 R. Hendrickson Ladybugs, Tiger Lilies & Wallflowers 81 The English call the willow herb Epilobrium hirsutum [sic] ‘gooseberry fool’ because its leaves smell like the dessert. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Boraginaceae (bugloss and allies) > [noun] ribeOE hound's-tonguec1000 ox-tonguea1325 rotheren tongue?a1350 buglossa1400 dog's tongue?a1425 lungwort1538 anchusa1548 sheep's tongue1552 cowslip of Jerusalem1578 Our Lady's milkwort1578 pulmonaria1578 sage of Jerusalem1578 wild comfrey1578 maiden-lips1589 bugloss cowslip1597 viper's bugloss1597 viper's herb1597 ribbie1607 lithospermon1646 wall bugloss1650 lady's glove1668 Venus's navelwort1678 spotted comfrey1688 cynogloss1705 Jerusalem sage1736 lawn1778 Mertensia1836 stickseed1843 Virginian cowslip1856 bluebell1858 gooseberry fool1858 Jerusalem cowslip1866 borage-wort1882 echium1883 rose noble1886 milksile- 1858 C. C. Wilkinson Weeds & Wild Flowers 72 (heading) Lung-wort, Cowslip of Jerusalem.., Gooseberry-fool. Pulmonaria. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1653 |
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