单词 | goke |
释义 | goken. Nautical. The core or heart (of a rope): see quot. 1800. ΚΠ 1800 S. Standidge in Naval Chron. 3 474 The..rope..has generally about one-eighth part of the weight and substance in the middle of the rope, called a goke, in order to make it round. Draft additions September 2017 English regional (northern, now chiefly north-eastern). Frequently in form gowk. The core of an apple or pear. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > apple > [noun] > apple core apple core1572 clocks1599 goke1825 1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Goke, Gowk, the core of an apple. 1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood 314 Goak, the core of fruit. ‘A apple gōak.’ ‘T' gōak on a pear.’ 1929 Folk-lore 40 285 Other divinations were once practised by girls, such as eating an apple before a looking glass, when, on reaching the ‘gowk’ (core), the future swain would peep over her shoulder. 1959 J. Kirkup Sorrows, Passions & Alarms v. 71 One day I had an apple. He didn't ask for the gowk. Most boys would have said: ‘Gi' us yer gowk.’ 2000 New Statesman 3 July 61/2 One more game and I can..clean up the apple gowks on the floor, the dirty mugs, the whisky glasses. 2013 @mikehately 14 May in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Friend of mine eats the gowk too—pips an' all. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1800 |
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