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单词 apple
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applen.

Brit. /ˈapl/, U.S. /ˈæp(ə)l/
Forms:

α. early Old English aepl, early Old English eappul (Mercian), early Old English ęppel, Old English æpel, Old English æpil (Northumbrian), Old English æpl (rare), Old English æppil (Northumbrian), Old English æppla (rare), Old English æppyl (rare), Old English apl- (inflected form), Old English eapl- (Mercian, inflected form, rare), Old English epl- (inflected form, rare), Old English uppl- (inflected form, rare), Old English–early Middle English æpl- (inflected form), Old English–early Middle English æppel, Old English–1500s apel, Old English (rare)–1600s appel, late Old English–early Middle English eppel, early Middle English aeppes (genitive singular, transmission error), early Middle English æwplum (dative plural, transmission error), early Middle English eappel, early Middle English eppele, early Middle English epple, early Middle English hapel, early Middle English happel, Middle English apil, Middle English apill, Middle English appelle, Middle English appil, Middle English appile, Middle English appill, Middle English appulle, Middle English appyl, Middle English appyll, Middle English appylle, Middle English apul, Middle English apull, Middle English 1600s appell, Middle English–1500s apell, Middle English–1500s appul, Middle English–1500s appull, Middle English–1700s aple, Middle English– apple; U.S. regional 1800s appil, 1900s– appile; Scottish pre-1700 aipill, pre-1700 aippill, pre-1700 apel, pre-1700 apil, pre-1700 apile, pre-1700 apill, pre-1700 aple, pre-1700 appel, pre-1700 appell, pre-1700 appill, pre-1700 appol, pre-1700 appyl, pre-1700 appyll, pre-1700 apyl, pre-1700 apyll, pre-1700 happle, pre-1700 1700s– apple, pre-1700 1800s– appil, 1800s– epple, 1900s– aipple, 1900s– aippul, 1900s– aypil, 2000s– aippil.

β. late Middle English nappill, late Middle English nappylle, 1800s– napple (regional); Scottish pre-1700 naple.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian appel apple, Middle Dutch appel apple, pomegranate, orange, any round fruit growing on a tree, pupil, pommel (Dutch appel ), Old Saxon appul (only in compounds; Middle Low German appel apple), Old High German apful , aphul , aphel , apfel apple, pomegranate, pupil (Middle High German apfel , German Apfel ), Old Icelandic epli apple, any fruit from a tree, Old Swedish æple apple, any fruit from a tree (Swedish äpple ), Old Danish æplæ , æpæl apple, any fruit from a tree, (æble ), Crimean Gothic apel apple, apparently related to (and perhaps ultimately < the same Indo-European base as) Gaulish avallo , (in place names) aballo- apple tree (perhaps > post-classical Latin -abulus in acerabulus kind of maple tree (7th cent.)), Early Irish abal apple tree, ubal , ubul apple (Irish úll ), Welsh afall apple tree, afal apple (compare earlier (in a post-classical Latin context) Aballava , the British name of Burgh-by-Sands, Cumberland (probably 2nd cent. in an inscription)), and (if < the same Indo-European base, apparently developed from forms with a long vowel in the first syllable) Old Prussian woble apple, wobalne apple tree, Lithuanian obelis apple tree, obuolys apple, Latvian ābele apple tree, ābols , ābolis apple, Old Church Slavonic jablanĭ apple tree (in an isolated attestation), Old Russian jabolon′ apple tree (Russian jablonja ), jabl″ko , jabloko apple (Russian jabloko ), Old Polish yabłon apple tree (Polish jabłoń ), yablek (genitive plural) apple (Polish jabłko ); perhaps compare also Abella , the name of a town in Campania in Italy, perhaps of the same origin (compare Virgil Aeneid 7.740 maliferae..moenia Abellae the walls of apple-bearing Abella). The words in Celtic, Baltic, and Slavonic apparently reflect both a simplex word and a derivative (apparently originally denoting the tree) with a suffix with -n- . For the name of the tree in the Germanic languages see Old English apuldor and its cognates (listed at apple tree n.).The etymology of the word beyond Germanic is uncertain and disputed. The word may show a borrowing from a non-Indo-European language, or the forms in Germanic, Celtic, Baltic, and Slavonic may all be developed from an Indo-European base, although none of the attempts to identify cognates in other branches of Indo-European have yet met with general acceptance. In Old English originally a strong masculine u -stem, it shows (already in early texts) attraction to the more common a -stem declension (compare nominative plural æppla beside rare æpplas ; see further A. Campbell Old Eng. Gram. (1959) §613); the existence of a weak by-form is perhaps also suggested by the genitive plural form æpplena (for expected æppla ) in an isolated attestation from the first half of the 11th cent. The β. forms show metanalysis (see N n.).
I. The fruit and tree, and related senses.
1. The round firm fruit (a pome) of any of various wild and cultivated trees of the genus Malus (see sense 4a), occurring in a wide variety of forms, colours, and flavours; esp. any of numerous cultivated kinds produced throughout the temperate zones of both hemispheres, typically having crisp white flesh and green, yellow, or red skin. Of the many cultivated varieties, the sweeter and juicier kinds are used as a dessert fruit or for cooking, while certain more astringent types are used to make cider.crab, cider, paradise, queen, Russian apple, etc.: see the first element.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > apple > [noun]
appleeOE
pome?1435
pipc1450
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > apple
appleeOE
malec1384
pome?1435
mele?1440
maiden's blush1803
eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) ii. i. 177 Him mon on fruman þa mettas gife..swa swa beoþ æppla, nales to swete ealles ac surmelsce, & peran & persucas [L. mela non satis dulcia et mediocriter stiptica et pira et persica].
OE Metrical Charm: Nine Herbs (Harl. 585) 67 Wudusuræppel, fille & finul, ealde sapan. Gewyrc ða wyrta to duste, mængc wiþ þa sapan & wiþ þæs æpples gor.
a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 25 He..bið al swa is an eppel iheoweð.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 5747 As he bi huld an hey, Vpe þe hexte bowe tweye applen [v.rr. applene, appulles, apples] he sey; & þe bowes of þe on appel smite þe oþer vaste.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xvi. 73 I prayed pieres to pulle adown an apple.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 160 This tree..bringith forth soure applis.
1533 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe ii. vii. 21 Rough tasted appules are holsome where the stomake is weake.
1577 N. Breton Floorish vpon Fancie sig. D.iiij Giue him an Apple, or a Peare, or some such chyldes rewarde.
1653 R. Austen Treat. Fruit-trees 70 Syder is usually made of such Apples as are moist sommer fruits.
1663 J. Beale Let. 31 Jan. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1965) II. 17 They commonly mingle water in ye presse wth ye apples (a good quantity) whilst they grind ye apples.
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 509. ⁋2 Venders of..apples, plumbs.
1779 J. Abercrombie Brit. Fruit-gardener 52 Apples arrive to perfection for use..from July or August, until the end of October.
1813 H. Davy Elements Agric. Chem. v. 222 Most of our best apples are supposed to have been introduced into Britain by a fruiterer of Henry the Eighth.
1876 F. R. Elliot Hand-bk. for Fruit Growers 66 We count the apple as the King of fruits, because it is more generally known and used than any other.
1929 L. W. Reese Victorian Village 7 With what..delight did we children hover round our elders at night, while they gilded walnuts, or rubbed apples until they were as glossy as our own cheeks.
1952 Times 18 Aug. 5/4 Many thousands of tons of apples are wasted yearly.
2006 Weight Watchers Mag. June 113/2 This handy apple corer/segmenter..will core and slice an apple into 12 even segments easily and simply.
2.
a. Frequently with distinguishing word: any of various fruits (and vegetables), esp. those thought to resemble the apple (sense 1) in some way; any of the plants producing such a fruit (or vegetable).† apple Punic n. [after classical Latin Pūnicum mālum (see Punic apple n. at Punic n. and adj. Compounds)] Obsolete rare the fruit of the pomegranate, Punica granatum; cf. Punic apple n. at Punic n. and adj. Compounds.custard-, Malay, potato, thorn-apple, etc.: see the first element.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > [noun]
appleeOE
fruit?c1225
fruitage1610
fructuage1650
fruitages1693
fruitery1708
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > berry > [noun] > pomegranate
pomegranatec1330
garneta1400
apple-garnadec1400
grenade?1533
granate1568
apple Punic1601
granate-applea1622
grenado1656
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > pomegranate
pomegranatec1330
garneta1400
apple-garnadec1400
Punic?1440
Punical pomec1450
grenade?1533
granate1568
apple Punic1601
Punic apple1601
granate-applea1622
grenado1656
balausta1842
native orange1860
eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 304 Mala punica, ða affricaniscan æppla.
eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. lxiv. 138 Genim brembelæppel & elehtran & pollegian, gecnua.
OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Num. (Claud.) xi. 5 We hæfdon cucumeres, þæt sind eorðæpla, & pepones & porleac [L. cucumeres, et pepones, porrique] & enneleac & manega oþre þingc.
c1300 St. Brendan (Laud) 696 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 239 (MED) Þe Applene weren ripe inouȝ, riȝt ase it heruest were.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1129 Quane here apples ripe ben, fier-isles man mai ðor-inne sen.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 236 Alle maner appul þat is closed in an harde skyn, rynde or schale is ycleped nux.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 2878 Þar-bi groues sum apell tre, Wit appuls [Fairf. appels, Gött. applis, Trin. Cambr. apples] selcut fair to se, Quen þai ar in hand, als a fise bal, To poudir wit a stink þai fal.
c1450 Practica Phisicalia John of Burgundy in H. Schöffler Mittelengl. Medizinlit. (1919) 245 Take þe appullis of sypressus and ete hem or þe pouder of þe applys dryed.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 198v Venemous apples wherwith they poyson theyr arrowes.
1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest ii. f. 50v The Mandrake..beareth sayth Isidore, an Apple of sweete smell, which of some is called the Apple of the earth.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xiii. xix. 398 Hereof commeth the colour Puniceus (i. a light red or a bay) taking the name of the apple Punicke or Pomegranate.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 666 The fruite or Apples of Palme-trees.
1660 Bp. J. Taylor Worthy Communicant v. §iii. 394 The other trees gave no fruit; an uselesse apple from the Oak, or little berries from the Laurel and the Myrtle.
1704 tr. J. Nieuhof Voy. E.-Indies in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. II. 326 The apples call'd pompions by the Dutch,..grow scarce anywhere else in the Indies but in the Isle of Great Java.
1784 in J. Cook & J. King Voy. Pacific II. 174 It [sc. Otaheite] is remarkable for producing great quantities of that delicious fruit we called apples.
1849 J. H. Balfour Man. Bot. §745 The Custard-apples, Sweetsops, and Soursops, of the East and West Indies, are furnished by various species of Anona.
1858 Harper's Mag. Apr. 583/1 Then came a course of fruits grown upon the place: luscious ‘Ripley’ Pine Apples and Star Apples (the latter..when cut across, displayed the seed chambers arranged in the exact form of a star).
1908 N. L. Britton N. Amer. Trees 712 It [sc. the pomegranate] is a much-branched small tree or shrub, reaching a height of 6 meters, and is also known as the Punic apple.
1930 Times Educ. Suppl. 18 Oct. 431/2 A section of the ‘potato apple’ is like that of the tomato.
2005 Smithsonian Dec. 65/1 I had inadvertently cut the branch of an overhanging manzanillo tree, whose apples are poison to humans.
†b. Botany. Any fruit having the structure of the apple; a pome. Obsolete.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > fruit or reproductive product > [noun] > fleshy fruit or pome
apple1577
kernel-fruit1612
pomum1670
pippin fruit1675
pome1783
amphisarca1854
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 87 What so euer fruite is to be eaten soft without, and hard within, is an Apple, and the contrary a Nut.
1729 J. Martyn 1st Lect. Bot. 20 An Apple, Pomum, is generally understood to be any fleshy Vessel containing more Seeds than one.
1799 R. Saumarez New Syst. Physiol. I. (ed. 2) ii. i. 254 Pomum or apple, which is a fleshy or pulpy kind of pericarpium: it contains in the middle a membraneous capsule..in which the seeds reside.
c. Chiefly with distinguishing word: a gall on the stem or leaf of a plant.See also mad-apple n. 2, mayapple n. 3, oak-apple n. 1.
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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > gall or abnormal growth
gall1398
elationc1420
dog rose1526
tumour?1541
to-growing1562
gall-nut1572
gall-apple1617
apple1668
by-fruit1682
witches' besom1849
witches' broom1856
mad-apple1868
nail gall1879
marble gall1882
gall-knob1892
scroll-gall1895
twig-gall1900
cecidium1902
1668 J. Finch Let. 14 July in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1967) IV. 541 He undertakes to Prove, that No Animal is generated but out of another Animal; Or some Plant Uncorrupted; as out of Oakapples, and severall prutuberancyes and Excresency's of Vegetables.
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. i. 302 The fly injects her juices into the oak leaf, to raise an apple for hatching her young.
1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. iii. v. 153 Bedeguars, commonly called ‘Soft apples’. This name is given to Galls which are covered with numerous close-set hairs or fibres.
1869 Eng. Mech. 24 Dec. 354/1 Mecca galls, Dead Sea apples, Sodom apples, or mad apples..are occasionally imported from Bussarah.
1900 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 27 582 The other [species of Gymnosporangium]..does not form galls or ‘apples’, but the teleutospore masses break out directly from the stem.
1943 B. O. Dodge & H. W. Rickett Dis. & Pests of Ornamental Plants ii. 519 Similar galls of a beautiful rose color develop sometimes on cranberries; they are called ‘rose apples’.
2002 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 15 Aug. 18/4 The oak gall, or oak-apple, was the source of the ink in many an old master drawing that is now falling to pieces.
3. According to post-biblical Christian tradition: the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil eaten by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden in defiance of God's commandment; the forbidden fruit. Also used allusively. [In the Book of Genesis the type of fruit eaten by Adam and Eve is not specified. In the Talmud it is variously identified as the grape, the fig, or wheat. The identification as an apple appears to arise in the post-classical Latin tradition. Compare post-classical Latin malum (early 5th cent. in a verse translation of Genesis; from late 7th or early 8th cent. in British sources), spec. use of classical Latin mālum apple (see male n.2), and also post-classical Latin pomum (from 12th cent. in British sources), spec. use of classical Latin pōmum fruit, in post-classical Latin also apple (see pomum n.), and Old French pomme (13th cent.), spec. use of pomme apple (see pome n.1). Apples also appear in Early Christian art in catacombs and on sarcophagi in connection with Adam and Eve. The choice of the apple may have been influenced by the potential pun between classical Latin mālum apple and classical Latin malum evil, use as noun of neuter of malus bad, evil (see mal- prefix). In the Old Testament apples are an erotic symbol in the Song of Solomon. There may also have been some association with apples as featured in Greek mythology; compare e.g. sense Phrases 3b.]
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society > authority > subjection > prohibition > [noun] > that which is prohibited > fruit forbidden to Adam
appleOE
forbidden fruit1609
OE Genesis B 637 Æppel unsælga, þone hire ær forbead drihtna drihten, deaðbeames ofet.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 43 Eue bi heold oðe for boden appel.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 755 (heading) (MED) How adam brake goddis comandement of the appil.
?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 59 The delite of the apill l slow Eue.
a1500 (c1400) St. Erkenwald (1977) l. 295 (MED) Adam, oure alder, þat ete of þat appulle.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Fiv These maner of people sell paradise for an apple, with Adam and Eue.
1618 T. Adams Happines of Church i. 392 Was it such a sinne for Adam to eate a forbidden Apple? Yes, the greatnes is remonstrable in the euent.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 487 Him by fraud I have seduc'd From his Creator..with an Apple . View more context for this quotation
1749 J. J. Hornyold Real Princ. Catholicks 198 To eat Meat that is forbidden, doth defile the Soul, as the Apple defiled Adam's.
1829 R. Southey All for Love ii. 20 The Apple had done but little for me If Eve had not done the rest.
1871 H. B. Stowe My Wife & I xlii. 410 You see, Eva, since Adam took the apple from Eve men have obeyed women nem. con.
1924 D. H. Lawrence Phoenix II. 624 Since man ate the apple..the human emotions are like a wedded wife.
1941 A. Kreymborg Poetic Drama Introd. 27 In the Elizabethan era which, like the Hebraic and Christian, never recovered from the apple Eve gave Adam, woman was often a glorious strumpet.
2006 Daily Mail (Nexis) 27 Nov. 3 The fear of Friday the 13th..is thought to have its origins in the Bible, as it was on a Friday when Eve took a bite from the apple.
4.
a. Any tree of the genus Malus (family Rosaceae); esp. any of the numerous varieties cultivated for their fruit, probably of hybrid origin and usually classified as M. domestica, having alternate serrated leaves and white blossom appearing in the spring, followed by fruit in late summer or autumn. Cf. apple tree n.The apple has a long history and its taxonomy is complex, with many cultivars and hybrids between wild and domestic kinds. Some authorities classify the domestic apple as M. pumila and treat the central Asian wild apple ( M. serversii), one of the supposed progenitors of the modern domestic varieties, as the same species.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > apple tree
apple treeOE
malec1384
mele?1440
applea1500
paradise stock1706
a1500 (?a1450) Treat. Gardening l. 15 in Archaeologia (1894) 54 161 Yn the calendars of Ianuar' Thu sclatt treys both set & rere To graffy ther yn appyl & pere.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 74v Takyng a branche of a Beeche a foote thicke: and when they haue cutte it and bored it, they set in it the branches of the best Peare or Apple that they can geat.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum vi. 146 Oakes, Beeches, Chesnuts,..&c. last longer than Apples, Peares, Plums, &c.
1653 R. Austen Treat. Fruit-trees 49 Graft..all kinds of Apples together, and also on Crabstocks.
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Kalendar 207 You may also continue to prune Pears, Apples, and Plums until the middle or latter end of the next month.
?a1775 W. Bartram Trav. Georgia & Florida in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. (1943) 33 139/1 Fruit Trees thrive very well here, Apples Pears, Peaches, Plumbs Nectrans, Cherries Rasberries, & Several other fine Fruit.
1816 W. Darby Geogr. Descr. Louisiana 150 The apple, though cultivated,..seems to be an exotic in southern Louisiana.
1887 J. J. Black Cultiv. Peach & Pear 219 The pear may be budded on the thorn, the mountain ash, or the apple, but the practice is not to be recommended.
1907 Times 4 May 7/6 A friend of mine..recently bought a tract of land in Georgia, with a view to planting apples.
1940 E. Step Wayside & Woodland Trees 40 The Wild Apple has not the pyramidal form of the Wild Pear.
1973 Vermont Life Fall 35/1 In 1883 Allen planted a mixture of Northern Spy, Baldwin and Rhode Island Greening apples.
2005 C. Tudge Secret Life Trees Pref. 4 Some temperate trees (like apples and horse chestnuts) are pollinated by animals.
b. The wood of any of these trees, esp. used in woodworking. Cf. apple-wood n. at Compounds 1a(a).
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > wood of fruit trees > others
service tree1545
cornel-wood1600
manchineel1683
bois d'arc1805
apple1815
crab-wood1849
peach wood1850
plum1902
persimmon1989
1815 Edinb. Encycl. (1830) IX. 710/2 The wood of France may be divided into six classes..for the fourth [sc. for fuel], fir, beech, elm, pear tree, apple, cherry tree [etc.].
1857–9 E. L. Tarbuck Encycl. Pract. Carpentry & Joinery ii. 66 Pear tree is superior in toughness to apple, but the latter excels sycamore and chestnut in hardness.
1903 R. W. Cole in G. L. Sutcliffe Mod. Carpenter, Joiner & Cabinet-maker VII. 237 The woods used for turning are roughly divided into hard and soft... The latter include walnut, mahogany, oak, beech..and apple.
1957 M. Hadfield Brit. Trees 301 When dry apple is one of the best woods for fuel.
1990 Woodworker July 61/1 He will use fruitwoods such as apple, plum, and, particularly, pear with its tight knit quality.
II. Extended uses.
5.
a. Any of various things resembling an apple in form or colour; spec. = pome n.1 2.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [noun] > sphericity or globularity > sphere > spherical or globular object
trendlea900
appleeOE
ballc1300
roundc1330
bowl1413
rotundity?a1425
spherea1425
pomec1440
globec1450
orba1500
rotund1550
roundel1589
pompom1748
eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in J. J. Quinn Minor Lat.-Old Eng. Glossaries in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1956) 135 Spere, æpples.
OE Metrical Dialogue of Solomon & Saturn (Corpus Cambr. 41) i. 28 Worpað hine deofol on domdæge, draca egeslice, bismorlice, of blacere liðran irenum aplum.
?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 5 He was wont to holden a round appell of gold in his hond.
?c1430 J. Lydgate Daunce Machabree (Huntington) 75 Ȝe most forsake of golde ȝowre appil rounde Sceptre and swerde.
1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 207 To make ye apple of the chieck ruddy.
1578 H. Wotton tr. J. Yver Courtlie Controuersie 167 The knight kneeleth..with his naked sworde vnder his arme, the whiche beeing made of Iasper sprinkled with Uermilion spots, seemeth to be al bloudy, & hee presenteth an apple of the same stone to the Princesse.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxvi. 598 Hold a round ball or hollow apple of glasse.
1650 R. Heath Clarastella 57 You that carried Summer in your lips..That in the Apples of your cheeks did wear A fertile Autumn now no fruit can bear?
1705 J. S. City & Country Recreation ii. iii. 104 Shrugging up her Shoulders, to shew the tempting Apples of her white Breasts.
1743 W. Guthrie tr. ‘Monsieur de Blainville’ Trav. II. lxvi. 414 The Vane on the Top of the Steeple is a Piece of fine Work..at the Extremity is a large gilded Apple or Globe.
1781 W. Cooke Medallic Hist. Imperial Rome II. 186 A Venus, with the Wand or Hasta pura in one Hand, and the Golden Apple or Globe in the other.
1865 ‘Philocomus’ Love Feast iii. 21 He press'd His hand upon the apples of my breast.
1881 N.Y. Art Interchange 27 Oct. 93/1 Of double-faced Canton flannel, finished with fringe and floss apples.
1956 M. Hargrove Girl he left Behind viii. 129 Andy picked up his two grenades... The apples felt strangely heavy in his hands.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia VII. 564/1 Thereafter the ‘imperial apple’ became an important emblem of the royal power invested in the monarch.
1975 C. W. Smith Country Music ix. 256 A peasant blouse that showed the top of those lovely little apples.
2004 Red Oct. 202/1 Apply powder blush directly to the apple of the cheek.
b. = Adam's apple n. 3.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > neck > [noun] > front of neck > Adam's apple
Adam's morsel1594
Adam's apple1625
apple1895
the world > life > the body > speech organs > types of speech organ > [noun] > throat > larynx
throat-bolleOE
larynx1578
throttle1615
Adam's apple1625
voice box1835
apple1895
1895 S. J. Weyman From Mem. Minister of France xi. 422 I saw the apple in his throat rise and fall with the effort he made to swallow.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. x. [Wandering Rocks] 234 He looked..up and down the quay, a big apple bulging in his neck.
1946 C. Fry Phoenix too Frequent 25 I love all the world And the movement of the apple in your throat.
1992 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 26 Jan. 1/2 Put one hand on the apple of the hound's throat and the other at the back of his head.
c. U.S. colloquial. A baseball. Also more fully old apple.Recorded earliest in apple knocker n. (a) at Compounds 2.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > [noun] > equipment
willow1846
baseball1853
bat1856
baseball bat1858
base bag1863
baseball glove1884
apple1902
rabbit ball1907
joystick1908
1902 Delphos (Ohio) Daily Herald 12 Aug. A gang of apple knockers strolled toward Mendon.., with Charles Dewey, the famous twirler.
1914 Lincoln (Nebraska) Daily News 25 May 7/2 Bert is playing a great game at third base and riding the old apple with wonderful severity.
1931 D. Runyon in Collier's 25 Apr. 38/3 Jo-jo belts the old apple right through a high window.
1989 R. A. Spears NTC's Dict. Amer. Slang 9/1 Just when I raised my arms to throw to second, the damn apple slipped out of my hand.
2004 Daily News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 28 Mar. 64 I'm glad Marbury is a Knick, but he sure does like to chuck that old apple, doesn't he?
d. A shade of green resembling the colour of a green apple. Cf. apple green n. and adj. at Compounds 2.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > [noun] > shade or tint of green > other greens
beech-greenc1450
frost on green1559
sap1572
apple green1648
sap-green1686
myrtle green1717
Brunswick green1790
pistachio1791
pistachio green1793
mountain green1794
lettuce green1834
copper-green1843
canard1872
myrtle1872
leaf-green1880
cress-green1883
cresson1883
watercress green1883
lizard-green1897
jade1921
apple1923
laurel1923
mango1930
laurel-green1938
lettuce1963
mint1967
1923 Daily Mail 5 Mar. 13 Colours: Peach, Apple, Apricot, Mauve, Fuchsia, Periwinkle.
1970 Guardian 5 May 7/1 Mini dress..coffee, apple, rose or delphinium print on green.
1995 Independent 10 Oct. 3/3 Five minutes later, the same outfit again—this time in tangerine, then apple, then citrus.
2000 Glebe & Inner City News (Austral.) (Nexis) 1 Nov. The hottest summer colours..include the dusted pastels of violet, poppy, apple, [etc.].
e. Also with capital initial. A round, apple-shaped bowl on a tobacco pipe (also more fully apple bowl); a tobacco pipe with such a bowl.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > pipe > bowl of pipe > type of
massa-bowl1835
apple1926
1926 Life 3 June 38/1 (advt.) No. 1711 has the smart ‘apple bowl’. A sporty looker, and a mighty friendly, comfortable pipe.
1954 A. Dunhill Gentle Art of Smoking ix. 125 The ‘Apple’ and the ‘Prince’ are examples of smaller, lighter bowls.
1972 M. J. Bosse Incident at Naha i. 17 He lit a pipe, his largest shell-briar Apple.
1994 Daily Oklahoman (Okla. City, Okla.) (Nexis) 2 Dec. iii. 1 Hand-carved pipes..including..a roughneck with an apple bowl for $18.95.
2000 D. Wright Pipe Compan. 188 (Gloss.) Apple, a classic pipe bowl shape resembling the roundness of an apple.
6. More fully apple of the eye.
a. The pupil of the eye, originally thought to be a solid, spherical body. Occasionally also: the iris and pupil, or the whole eyeball. Now historical.
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the world > life > the body > sense organ > sight organ > parts of sight organ > [noun] > pupil
apple of the eyeeOE
pearl1340
blacka1387
pupillaa1400
sightc1400
pupil?a1425
sheenc1500
strale1553
prunall1612
sight-hole1670
shine1713
eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) xi. 69 On ðæs siwenigean eagum beoð ða æpplas hale [L. pupilla oculi], ac ða bræwas greatigað,..oððæt sio scearpnes bið gewird ðæs æpples.
eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) xi. 69 Ðurh ðone æpl ðæs eagan mon mæg geseon.
a1300 W. de Biblesworth in Wright Voc. 145 La prunele, the appel of the eye.
?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 4 The Appyll of ye ee [1483 BL Add. 89074 Appylle of ee], pupilla.
1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 153 We see our owne eies shine within the apples of our neighbours eies.
1600 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliad xiv. 409 The dart did undergore His eye-lid, by his eye's dear roots, & out the apple fell.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xi. 337 None have their eyes all of one color, for the bal or apple in the midst is ordinarily of another color than the white about.
1705 Philos. Trans. 1704–05 (Royal Soc.) 24 1728 Having carefully observ'd the Eyes of several Fishes..I found that the..Pupil or Apple of the Eye, was very flat, like those in Human Creatures.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) He cut asunder the Apple of the eye in several animals.
1827 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 22 374/1 Dull people turn up..the apples of their eyes on beholding Prose by a Poet.
1870 Anthropol. Rev. 8 16 Large dark blue sparkling eye..with much white, of a bluish shade, visible under the apple.
1912 Lancet 12 Oct. 1043/1 The eye was also considered so as to elucidate the origin and application of such terms as bulb, apple, iris, pupil, cataract.
1957 H. Williamson Golden Virgin ii. xviii. 238 Just you take a look at Jimmy [sc. a pigeon] here's eye..two circles there be, one for range and t'other for intelligence, and locked up in the apple, sir.
2004 People (Nexis) 25 Jan. 8 At this time [sc. the ninth cent.] the pupil of the eye was thought to be a solid object and was known as the apple because it was spherical.
b. figurative and in extended use. Originally: the type of something precious. In later use chiefly the apple of a person's eye: the particular object of a person's affection or regard; a greatly cherished person or occasionally thing.In early use frequently in translations of or with allusion to biblical passages, as Psalm 17:8 ‘Keepe me as the apple of the eye: hide mee vnder the shadowe of thy wings’ (King James Bible).
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the mind > emotion > love > loved one > [noun]
darlingc888
the apple of a person's eyeeOE
lief971
light of one's eye(s)OE
lovedOE
my lifelOE
lovec1225
druta1240
chere1297
sweetc1330
popelotc1390
likinga1393
oninga1400
onlepya1400
belovedc1430
well-beloved1447
heart-rootc1460
deara1500
delicate1531
belove1534
leefkyn1540
one and only1551
fondling1580
dearing1601
precious1602
loveling1606
dotey1663
lovee1753
passion1783
mavourneen1800
dote1809
treasure1844
seraph1853
sloe1884
darlint1888
asthore1894
darl1930
eOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Otho) xxxix. 133 Se godcunda anwald gefrioðode his deorlingas under [his] fiðra sceate, & hi scilde swa geornlice [swa] swa man deð þone æppel on his eagan.
OE King Ælfred tr. Psalms (Paris) (2001) xvi. 8 Geheald me, Drihten, and beorh me, swa swa man byrhð þam æplum on his eagum mid his bræwum.
c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) xvi. 9 (MED) Kepe me..as þe appel of þyn eȝe [L. pupilam oculi tui].
a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) xvi. 9 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 147 Als appel ofe eghe yheme þou me.
1584 R. Hakluyt Disc. Western Planting (1877) vii. 59 If you touche him in the Indies, you touche the apple of his eye.
1607 E. Sharpham Cupids Whirligig iii. i. sig. Gv [A lady] that shall nourish no blood but your owne, tender your reputation as the apple of her eye, & honour euen your verie footsteps.
1693 J. Bancroft Henry II v. iii. 48 He can't live without you. You're the Apple of his Eye, the Joy of his Heart, the Lamp of his Life.
a1767 M. Bruce Poems (1770) 70 His daughter beautiful and young..The perfect picture of her mother's youth, His age's hope, the apple of his eye.
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality vii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. III. 139 Poor Richard was to me as an eldest son, the apple of my eye.
1877 Spirit of Times 15 Dec. 527/2 Col. Gildersleeve has lost his valuable setter dog Don, which animal was the apple of his eye.
1884 Harper's Mag. May 915/1 He was a master of his profession, and his journal was to him as the apple of his eye.
1930 R. Campbell Poems 11 Live and die The apple, nay the onion, of his eye?
1987 R. Mistry Tales from Firozsha Baag (1992) 145 He parked his 1932 Mercedes-Benz (he called it the apple of his eye) outside A Block.
1998 P. Jooste Dance with Poor Man's Daughter (1999) i. 23 Errol was the apple of my grandmother's eye because he was her eldest.
7. [Rhyming slang.] In full apple(s) and pears. Stairs.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > stairs > [noun]
stairc1000
grece1382
grecingc1400
pairc1450
slip1480
pair, flight of stairs1556
scale1592
staircase1624
scalier1652
dancers1667
flight1703
stairway1767
apple(s) and pears1857
1857 ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue 1 Apple and Pears, stairs.
1892 Sporting Times 29 Oct. 1/2 The clock on the apples and pears Gave the office for us to clear.
1909 J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era 9/1 Bill an' Jack's gone up apples.
1914 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. iv. ix. 1100 I soon shoved him down the Apples-and-pears.
1962 J. G. Bennett Witness xviii. 218 One of the removal men asked him if a sofa was to go ‘up the apples’.
2006 Forward (Nexis) 22 Dec. b2 I fell down the apples and landed on me bottle.
8.
a. rotten (also bad) apple: a negative or corrupting influence on others; a troublesome or despicable person; cf. Phrases 2.
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society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > [noun] > one who or that which
demoralizer1799
rotten (also bad) apple1887
1887 G. H. Devol Forty Years Gambler on Mississippi 181 Those fellows are rotten apples.
1918 F. Riesenberg Under Sail i. 18 There's no choosing between them rotten apples aft.
1962 R. Dougherty Commissioner i. 23 Seen from this angle he looked what, in Bonaro's words he was,—‘a bad apple’.
1980 L. Kennedy Brit. Intelligence Services in Action (BNC) 157 The original ‘rotten apple’ is believed to have been a government agent.
2006 Detroit News (Nexis) 8 Feb. 1 a You are the one that's going to be stuck with the bill if you pick a bad apple.
b. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). A person; a fellow, a guy. Usually with preceding adjective.
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the world > people > person > [noun]
hadc900
lifesmaneOE
maneOE
world-maneOE
ghostOE
wyeOE
lifeOE
son of manOE
wightc1175
soulc1180
earthmanc1225
foodc1225
person?c1225
creaturec1300
bodyc1325
beera1382
poppetc1390
flippera1400
wat1399
corsec1400
mortal?a1425
deadly?c1450
hec1450
personagec1485
wretcha1500
human1509
mundane1509
member1525
worma1556
homo1561
piece of flesh1567
sconce1567
squirrel?1567
fellow creature1572
Adamite1581
bloat herringa1586
earthling1593
mother's child1594
stuff1598
a piece of flesh1600
wagtail1607
bosom1608
fragment1609
boots1623
tick1631
worthy1649
earthlies1651
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pippin1665
being1666
personal1678
personality1678
sooterkin1680
party1686
worldling1687
human being1694
water-wagtail1694
noddle1705
human subject1712
piece of work1713
somebody1724
terrestrial1726
anybody1733
individual1742
character1773
cuss1775
jig1781
thingy1787
bod1788
curse1790
his nabs1790
article1796
Earthite1814
critter1815
potato1815
personeityc1816
nibs1821
somebody1826
tellurian1828
case1832
tangata1840
prawn1845
nigger1848
nut1856
Snooks1860
mug1865
outfit1867
to deliver the goods1870
hairpin1879
baby1880
possum1894
hot tamale1895
babe1900
jobbie1902
virile1903
cup of tea1908
skin1914
pisser1918
number1919
job1927
apple1928
mush1936
face1944
jong1956
naked ape1965
oke1970
punter1975
1928 S. J. Perelman in Judge 25 Feb. 10/2 ‘I can't say,’ replied the poor apple.
1941 Life Mag. 27 Jan. 78/2 Boys [who] do not meet with subdeb approval..are lumped together under such terms as..sad apples, meatballs,..and drips.
1976 R. P. Davis Pilot vi. 153 That's a different department; I don't hobnob with those apples.
2004 Business Week (Nexis) 9 Feb. 62 Leonard himself was a pretty tough apple.
c. U.S. slang (derogatory). In North American Indian usage: a North American Indian regarded as espousing or adopting the values of white society or culture (see quot. 2001). Cf. Oreo n.1 2.
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1970 Lawton (Okla.) Constit. 8 July 9/1 Her 8-year-old boy criticized her 10-year-old daughter by calling her an ‘apple.’
1986 P. G. Allen Sacred Hoop 134 The ‘apples’, who categorically reject the Indian culture they were born to, choose one side, the white.
1994 R. Hendrickson Happy Trails 9 You ain't shit, you fucking apple.
2001 Adrenalin No. 9. 63/3 I never saw money to do good things to Indians, it turns them into ‘Apples’—red on the outside, white in the middle.
9. U.S. slang (originally Jazz). Usually with capital initial. With the. Originally: Harlem. Hence later: New York City. Cf. Big Apple n. 4.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [noun] > in North America > (part of) New York
the Bowery1787
Gotham1807
hell's kitchen1879
tenderloin district1887
west side1897
Big Apple1922
village1929
apple1939
Soul City1964
1939 C. Calloway New Cab Calloway's Cat-ologue Apple, the big town, the main stem, Harlem.
1953 R. Ellison Let. 18 Mar. in R. Ellison & A. Murray Trading Twelves (2000) 39 I'll write you from the apple.
1974 G. Giddins in Village Voice (N.Y.) 2 May 69/5 Both groups are symptomatic of the flood of young musicians storming into the Apple, abandoning studio sinecures and rock bands to play difficult improvisatory music.
2005 Wall St. Jrnl. 7 Jan. (Central ed.) a10/3 Many of the city's most creative people in the 1970s (as now) were high IQ boys and girls from Smalltown who fled to the Apple.
10. slang (chiefly Australian and New Zealand). Used to indicate a state of affairs regarded as good or satisfactory (or occasionally ironic the reverse). Chiefly in she's (also it's) apples and variants: everything is all right; things will be fine (see she pron.1 2a(e)).This use of the plural noun can often also be interpreted as a predicative adjectival use. [Perhaps short for either apples and spice or apples and rice , apparently rhyming slang for nice adj., although there is apparently no evidence to support this.]
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1943 J. Binning Target Area 140 If everything is running smoothly ‘she's apples’.
1952 T. A. G. Hungerford Ridge & River 44 How's it going, Wally? Everything apples?
1958 R. Stow To Islands iv. 92 She felt their faint movements of relief and surprise. ‘Well,’ said Dixon, ‘that'd be a break. That'd be apples, that would.’
1963 R. H. Morrieson Scarecrow (1964) xii. 133 Don't cry, Pru. Yuh go and see old Len Ramsbottom and betcha everything'll be apples.
1975 Sydney Morning Herald 24 June 6 No one reckons it's ‘apples’ in the battle for Bass.
1977 R. Beilby Gunner 87 She's apples. Now you just lie back an' take it easy.
1992 R. Puxley Cockney Rabbit 4 Apples & Rice, nice. Generally shortened to the first element when describing something that is nice, e.g. ‘She's apples’. But used in full when used to describe something that isn't, e.g., ‘Oh, that's very apples and rice. I'm out of work and you're pregnant again.’
1994 Fast Forward 26 Oct. 15 Well, she's not much of a motor, but with a spray job and a new radiator she'll be apples!

Phrases

P1. In various proverbial and idiomatic phrases.
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OE Proverb (Faust. A.x) in Anglia (1878) 1 285 Se æppel næfre þæs feorr ne trenddeð, he cyð, hwanon he com [L. Pomum licet ab arbore igitur unde reuoluitur tamen prouidit, unde nascitur].
a1275 (?c1200) Prov. Alfred (Trin. Cambr.) (1955) 108 Moni appel is wid-uten grene, brit on leme, & bittere widinnen.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vi. v. 300 [Children] loue an appil more than golde.
a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 4532 A foolis word is nought to trowe, Ne worth an appel for to lowe.
1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. fijv/2 He setteth nomore by the than of an olde hounde dede or of a roten apple.
?1521 A. Barclay Bk. Codrus & Mynalcas sig. civv In fraudefull beaute set thou but small pleasaunce A plesaunt apple is ofte corrupt within.
1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health cii. 89 He that will not a wife wedde, Must eate a cold Apple when he goeth to bed.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) i. i. 134 Faith (as you say) there's small choise in rotten apples . View more context for this quotation
1627 R. Sanderson Ten Serm. 187 Of a wauering and fickle minde: as we say of children; wonne with an apple, and lost with a nut.
1642 D. Rogers Naaman 545 Hypocrites are very glad when Gods and their ends concurre As the dung swimming in the same streame with the Apples, said, We apples swimme.
1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 42 An apple is better given than eaten by a time. A man may get more favour by giving a thing than using it.
1843 ‘R. Charlton’ New Purchase I. xxx. 284 I begged permission to join the party; which request being cheerfully granted, away we started as—missionaries—hem! See, then, reader ‘how we apples swim!’
1883 C. S. Burne Shrops. Folk-lore 590 Those who have an orchard shall have an apple sent them, And those who have a horse shall have another lent them.
1933 T. Davis Terror at Compass Lake 111 The best-looking apples have worms in 'em.
1961 Daily Tel. 9 Oct. 22/2 Mr Kennedy said to the Russian Foreign Minister at one point ‘You have offered to trade us an apple for an orchard. We do not do that in this country.’
1981 R. Hogan Lawman's Choice 134 They don't count for sour apples.
P2. [Compare post-classical Latin pomum compunctum cito corrumpit sibi iunctum ‘a rotten apple quickly infects its neighbour’.] Phrases referring to the powerful corrupting influence of a single rotten apple on other good apples nearby. Cf. sense 8a.
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1340 Ayenbite (1866) 205 (MED) A roted eppel amang þe holen makeþ rotie þe yzounde.
1485–6 W. Caxton tr. Laurent Ryal Bk. sig. R3 v An appel roten yf it be emonge the sounde and hole corrupteth the good apples yf it lye longe emonge them.
1528 Rede me & be nott Wrothe Epist. sig. a iiijv For one rotten apple lytell and lytell putrifieth an whole heape.
1639 J. Clarke Paroemiologia 217 One rotten apple corrupts those, that lie neare it.
1735 B. Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac 1736 July The rotten Apple spoils his Companion.
1855 H. G. Bohn Hand-bk. Prov. 514 The rotten apple injures its neighbour.
1992 G. Vanderhaeghe Things as they Are? 159 One bad apple can spoil the barrel.
P3. With of, chiefly in the names of plants.
a.
apple of Adam n. now historical = Adam's apple n. 1.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > citrus fruit
Adam's apple?a1425
citronc1450
apple of Adam1615
forbidden fruita1818
kaffir lime1824
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 224 The apples of Adam..the iuyce wherof they tunne vp and send into Turky.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. i. 129 The Master of a Venetian ship, gaue me a present of foure or fiue Apples, which he called (as they vulgarly doe) the Apple of Adam, and I neuer in my life tasted so delicete a fruite.
1976 Art Bull. 58 515/1 It is at one time, an apple, a citrus, and an exotic fruit of the Garden of Paradise. It was the very apple of Adam.
b.
apple of discord n. a cause or subject of strife or dissension; also apple of contention, apple of dissension.With allusion to the myth that a golden apple inscribed ‘For the fairest’ was thrown by Eris, goddess of discord, among the guests at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, and contended for by the goddesses Hera, Athene, and Aphrodite. The story is told in the Latin author, Hyginus ( Fabulae 92 (2nd cent. a.d.)). [Compare post-classical Latin malum Discordiae (3rd cent.), Middle French, French pomme de discorde (1593).]
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > dissent > [noun] > causing dissension > cause or subject of dissension
questionc1384
matterc1390
strife1535
apple of discord1574
bone of contention1590
golden ball1609
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. 7419 (MED) To the faireste of hem thre, Of gold that Appel scholde I [sc. Paris] yive.
1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. Z.ii The golden apple that the Troyan boy, Gaue to Uenus..Which was the cause of all the wrack of Troy.]
1574 tr. T. de Bèze et al. in Brieff Disc. Troubles Franckford p. ccx This oure writinge, god is oure witnesse, doth not tende to this purpos, that either parte shuld vse it against other as that we shuld send it to yow as an apple of contention.
1595 R. Robinson tr. V. Strigel Third Proceeding Harmonie King Davids Harp lv. 111 Let vs pray vnto God..that he would cast to them the apple of discord, for the which they may like vnto Chadmeis children fight one with an other.
1614 E. Grimeston tr. P. Matthieu Hist. Lewis XI i. 21 The house of Austria had cast the Apple of discord among the Suisses.
a1649 W. Drummond Irene in Wks. (1711) 173 Who throw the Apple of Dissension amongst your Subjects.
1680 Established Test 10 The Apple of Contention between the Prince and the People.
1725 R. Manning England's Conversion & Reformation Compared i. vii. 56 [The scriptures] must unavoidably be the very Apple of Discord, and a Source of endless Disputes.
1828 R. Montgomery City Looking Glass (1933) iv. vi. 109 I think the majesty of State Rights a very ridiculous subject, of which fools of the present day make a bone of contention, and which knaves of a future may make the apple of discord.
1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre III. viii. 221 The very name of love is an apple of discord between us—if the reality were required, what should we do?
1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. iv. 195 This great and wealthy church constantly formed an apple of discord.
1926 Fresno (Calif.) Bee 12 Dec. 4/1 [The Italo-French problem] has manifested itself in street demonstrations, in riots, in the hateful Garibaldi affair and now extends to Albania, the old apple of discord.
1999 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 12 Aug. 48/1 Thus in Meridor's view, there is no apple of discord between Labor and Likud.
c.
apple of love n. now historical the fruit of either of two plants of the genus Solanum, tomato ( S. lycopersicum) and aubergine ( S. melongena); cf. love apple n.
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1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. lv. 275 Apples of Loue do grow in Spaine, Italie, and such hot countries, from whence my selfe haue receiued seedes for my garden.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iv. xxxi. 294 There is at the Indies any good thing that Spaine brings foorth..as..Becengenes, or apples of love,..vetches, and finally whatsoever groweth heere of any profite.
1781 H. Smythson Compl. Family Physician 768/2 Apples of Love... These large juicy fruits, are not produced on a tree, but on a small low plant.
1950 Progress (Clearfield, Pa.) 27 Jan. 4/1 Europeans called tomatoes ‘apples of love’.
2006 J. A. La Boone Around World of Food xiv. 65 The Spaniards..believed eggplants were a powerful aphrodisiac. They even called them ‘apples of love’.
d.
apple of paradise n. †(a) a kind of apple; = apple-john n. (obsolete); (b) the fruit of any of several plants of the genus Musa, esp. the plantain, M. x paradisiaca (now historical).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > tropical exotic fruit > banana > types of
apple of paradise1572
plantain1582
Adam's apple1588
plantain1756
ensete1790
fei1829
Abyssinian banana1859
honey banana1877
scarlet banana1885
Canary banana1889
lady's finger banana1893
Gros Michel1913
honey1938
1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) sig. C1 Apple, called apple Iohn, or Saint Iohns apple, or a sweting, or an apple of paradise.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. xvi. 17 b Apples of paradice, which they call muses.
1650 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica (ed. 2) vii. i. 292 We reade in Pierius, that an Apple was the Hieroglyphick of love.., and there want not some who have symbolized the Apple of Paradise unto such constructions.
1703 tr. U. Chevreau Hist. World IV. 126 The Fruit of it is called..Muza, that is to say, sweet, by those of Mauritania..; Apples of Paradise by the Cypriots, and Garden Figs by the Portuguese.
1835 T. Wentworth W. India Sketch Bk. (ed. 2) I. xvi. 264 The plantain, if Goropius and others are to be credited, is the apple of Paradise, with the leaves of which Adam manifested his transgression.
1949 H. W. von Loesecke Bananas i. 7 Sixteenth century writers commonly referred to the fruit as ‘apples of paradise’ or ‘Adam's fig,’ from the legend that the banana was the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil of the Garden of Eden.
e.
apple of Peru n. chiefly U.S. (a) the thorn apple or jimson weed, Datura stramonium; = apple-Peru n. at Compounds 2 (now rare); (b) the shoo-fly plant, Nicandra physalodes (family Solanaceae), of South America.
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1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes 257/2 A strange plant or thistle called the apple of Peru, the thornie or prickly apple.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Stramonia,..the Apple of Peru, or Thorn-Apple.
1848 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. 354 Nicandra... Apple of Peru... N[icandra] physaloides... Sparingly naturalized near dwellings; a homely plant, native of Peru.
1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms 20/2 Apple of Peru.—The Northern name for the Thorn Apple..or Jamestown Weed.
1971 A. Krochmal Med. Plants Appalachia 108 Datura stramonium..apple of Peru.
2003 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 24 Aug. b1/2 Apple of Peru originated in South America and also is known as shoo-fly because it is thought to repel insects.
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apple of Sodom n. (a) a fruit (now usually identified with that of the mudar, Calotropis procera (family Asclepiadaceae)) which, according to legend, appears tempting but dissolves into smoke and ashes when grasped; (also figurative) something which does not live up to expectations; now rare; (b) the tomato-like fruits of any of various poisonous plants of the genus Solanum, esp. S. linnaeanum (formerly S. sodomeum).Cf. Sodom apple n., Dead Sea apple n. at Dead Sea n. Compounds.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > mythical plant or fruit
tree of mercyc1375
Sodom apple1605
apple of Sodom1635
Sodom fruit1737
Yggdrasil1770
Dead Sea fruit1817
Dead Sea apple1869
triffid1951
tree-people1954
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > disappointment > [noun] > that which disappoints
apple of Sodom1635
disappointment1843
suck-in1856
anticlimax1858
sell1890
lemon1909
damp squib1963
1635 E. Rainbow Labour 6 Those apples of Sodom which dye betwixt the hand and the mouth.
a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 84 As for the Apples of Sodom..I neither saw, nor heard of any.
1756 J. Hill Brit. Herbal 328/2 It is called apples of Sodom from the place. The fruit has a tempting aspect; but, when chewed, the taste is very disagreeable.
1855 Harper's Mag. July 154/1 The French Minister of Marine invited Jones to complete the arrangement, and with a joyful heart he hastened thither, but to grasp another apple of Sodom.
1905 D. H. Anderson Primer of Irrigation xxi. 233 They are like apples of Sodom, or like the book St. John ate—sweet in his mouth and bitter in his stomach.
1960 V. Williams Walk Egypt 55 Apple of Sodom threw up prickly leaves and hung orange fruit everywhere.
2005 Countryman (W. Austral.) (Nexis) 4 Aug. 12 The Apple of Sodom (Solanum linnaeanum),..is also causing problems as a weed in New Zealand.
P4. the apple never falls far from the tree and variants: a person inevitably shares traits with or resembles his or her parents or family.In quot. 1839 with reference to return to the family home.
[Compare German der Apfel fällt nicht weit von Stamm , etc. Compare also quot. 1843, and the following:
1830 B. Thorpe tr. R. K. Rask Gram. Anglo-Saxon Tongue Pref. p. xxvii Traces still exist in the daily language of the Icelanders, for instance in the proverb, eplit fellr ekki lánt frá eikinni the apple falls not far from the tree (the oak!).
Compare also quot. OE at Phrases 1.]
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1839 R. W. Emerson Let. 22 Dec. (1939) II. 243 As men say the apple never falls far from the stem, I shall hope that another year will draw your eyes and steps to this old dear odious haunt of the race.]
1843 G. Borrow Bible in Spain III. iii. 40 ‘The apple’, as the Danes say, ‘had not fallen far from the tree’; the imp was in every respect the counterpart of the father.
1897 N.Y. Times 29 Aug. (Illustr. Weekly Mag. section) 13/4 His father..has transmitted to him the Southern passionate and pleasure-loving nature, and..the apple fell not far from the tree.
1954 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 24 Apr. 8/4 The apples never fall far from the tree; meaning, you can plainly see where Dick gets his ability.
2005 Daily Star (Nexis) 17 Jan. 15 The apple doesn't fall very far from the tree. And in this case the apple and tree are both rotten.
P5. as like as an apple to an oyster and variants: see oyster n. and adj. Phrases 1d.
P6. (as) sure as God made little applesand variants: certainly, definitely; without a doubt.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > making certain, assurance > of course, certainly [phrase] > beyond question
(as) sure as ——a1413
if your cap be of wool1546
as sure as a club1584
(as) sure as a guna1640
(as) sure as God made little apples1796
you can gamble on that1862
no matter how (or whichever way, etc.) you slice it1936
that's for sure1971
1796 Eloise de Montblanc II. 90 As sure as God made little apples, she'll visit the lodge to-day.
1874 M. Clarke His Nat. Life (1875) iii. xv. 261 I'll tie you up and give you fifty for yourself, as sure as God made little apples.
1912 C. E. Mulford & J. W. Clay Buck Peters, Ranchman xxii. 285 It's Buck as sure as little apples Kesicks.
1926 J. Black You can't Win (1927) ix. 121 Sure as God made little apples I'll see that you get ten days.
1942 M. Lasswell Suds in your Eye ix. 112 I'm gonna learn to read sure as God made little apples.
1977 G. Woods Bloody Harvest 175 They're gonna come through that gate sure as God made apples. We get only one chance of surprise.
2004 S. Quigley Run for Home (2005) xvii. 273 Ask Mr Skillings. As sure as God made little apples, that's what I said.
P7. an apple a day keeps the doctor away and similar phrases.
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1866 Notes & Queries 24 Feb. 153/2 A Pembrokeshire proverb. Eat an apple on going to bed, And you'll keep the doctor from earning his bread.
1898 19th Cent. Apr. 644 There is no food so palatable, so wholesome, as fruit: ‘An apple a day, no doctor to pay.’
1899 Youth's Compan. 10 Aug. 398/3 An apple a day sends the doctor away.
1913 E. M. Wright Rustic Speech xiv. 238 Ait a happle avore gwain to bed, An' you'll make the doctor beg his bread (Dev[on]); or as the more popular version runs: An apple a day Keeps the doctor away.
1922 S. Lewis Babbitt (1961) i. 13 Of course I eat an apple every evening—an apple a day keeps the doctor away.
1934 Washington Post 30 Oct. 4/4 Testimonials to the truthfulness of that old saw about an apple a day keeping the doctor away.
2006 Lincs. Echo (Nexis) 29 Aug. 13 An apple a day may keep the doctor away, but a glass of cider a day is even better for your health.
P8. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). how do you like them (also those) apples? and variants: ‘how do you like that?’, ‘what do you think of that?’ Frequently used as a jeer or taunt, implying that the thing referred to will be unwelcome.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > expressions used in derision or ridicule [phrase]
scilicet1539
don't make me laugh1733
I should smile1883
how do you like them (also those) apples?1895
in your face1975
1895 Bryan (Texas) Eagle 26 Sept. Bryan is the best cotton market in this section of the state and has received more cotton than any other town in this section. How do you like ‘them apples’?
1924 Kingston (N.Y.) Daily Freeman 29 Sept. 1/4 ‘How do you like those apples?’ asked Thomas..as he kicked a window out of the police car..after he had been arrested.
1941 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 15 Apr. 29/1 I knew them better and saw them in action more often than ‘Mr. Smith’. How do you like them apples, Smithy old boy?
1987 D. F. Wallace Broom of Syst. 348 I'll talk to him directly. Spit in his eye. How'll he like those apples?
2001 B. Perry In Name of Hate vii. 190 Disgusting people marching in the streets demanding all sorts of things... How do you like them apples?
P9. Chiefly U.S.
a. apples and oranges: used as the type of two things which are inherently different or incompatible, usually in contexts implying that a given comparison is invalid. Frequently in to compare apples and oranges and variants. Cf. chalk n. 6a.
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1922 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. Jan. p. xxiv/2 It is as impossible to add investment banking to commercial banking and get security as it is to add apples to oranges and get peaches.]
1930 Psychol. Rev. 37 160 Psychologists..adding scores in the sub-tests..have been doing something akin to adding apples and oranges.
1958 Daily Times-News (Burlington, N. Carolina) 6 Feb. 8/3 d To do so is..like comparing apples with oranges, because the two differ in..philosophy and mission.
1989 New Yorker 9 Jan. 56/3 Comparing the two programs is comparing apples and oranges.
2004 Mojo June 14 It's apples and oranges... Our film is a concert DVD.., and theirs is a feature-length documentary.
b. apples to apples: used as the type of a comparison which is regarded as valid because it involves two or more things which are fundamentally the same. Frequently in to compare apples to apples and variants.
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1937 Printers' Ink Monthly July 21/1 Each classification..has its counterpart in the other set. We are..comparing apples with apples, and pears with pears.
1965 Nevada State Jrnl. 23 Dec. 17/3 The new law..provides for a comparison of apples to apples and oranges to oranges.
1976 N.Y. Times 16 July a20/5 An ‘apples to apples’ comparison shows that imports decreased by 14.1 percent.., contrasted with the same period in 1975, rather than increased by 26 percent.
1996 G. Green & J. Williams Marketing 211 When comparing different media or promotional tools, be sure to compare apples to apples.
2009 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 43 Print and Web metrics are not apples-to-apples, but..the Web has extended The Times' reach many times over.

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a. General attributive.
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apple blossom n.
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1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 64 Laurus, Satyrion, Oxyacanthus, Tamariscus, Apple-blossoms, &c.
1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful iii. §2. 75 The rose and the apple blossom are both beautiful.
1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 5 Betsy..was just like a blue-eyed doll, with her flaxen curls and her apple-blossom complexion.
2001 Observer 20 May (Life Suppl.) 65 The apple blossom, having held back at least a fortnight past its normal start, is getting good.
apple core n.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > apple > [noun] > apple core
apple core1572
clocks1599
goke1825
1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) (at cited word) Apple coare, volua, pomi medium, in quo ceu loculo latent semina.
1777 C. Dibdin Quaker i. v. 11 A kernel from an apple core, One day on either cheek I wore.
1894 New Eng. Mag. Aug. 770/2 Did we not applaud with our heart-beats the man who told us that he could not bring himself to drop an apple-core unter den Linden?
1991 J. Connor Distortions 90 All the clutter and jumble and bits of rubbish had gone; all the rotten apple cores and torn-up newspaper and chewed-up chewing gum.
apple flower n.
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1598 G. Chapman tr. Homer Seauen Bks. Iliades iii. 509 Fragrant appleflowers.
1866 J. Ingelow Poems 88 Bird on thy nest among the apple-flowers.
2007 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 26 Apr. f5 Apple flowers need cross-pollination to set fruit, a process dependent on bees.
apple fruit n.
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1675 Philos. Trans. 1674 (Royal Soc.) 9 248 To obtain extraordinarily good, big, and beautiful Apple-fruit, he adviseth..to graft good Graffs upon such Apple-stocks as..have been deprived of their Heart-root.
1779 S. Rudder New Hist. Gloucestershire 25 The tenants were obliged to pay yearly vessels of wine, made of apple-fruit.
1892 Bot. Gaz. 17 116 Bitter rot or ripe rot of the apple fruit is the same fungus that causes one of the dreaded decays of grapes.
1999 D. Ingram & N. Robertson Plant Dis. ii. 37 (caption) An apple fruit (var. Golden Delicious) rotted by the necrotrophic fungus Monilinia fructigena.
apple garden n.
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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Eccles. ii. 5 Gardynes and appil gardynes [a1425 L.V. orcherdis; L. pomaria].
1521 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/4) Rec. for the ferme of the appelgarden ijs. viijd.
1799 W. Tooke View Russ. Empire III. x. v. 339 All the villages on the Volga and the Oka have their orchards, or more properly apple-gardens.
1860 All Year Round 7 July 306 At the entrance of the..village street,..stood..the presbytère and its apple garden.
2006 Finnish Amer. Reporter (Electronic ed.) Feb. 9 The apple garden existing today was planted in the 1930s.
apple-garth n. [earliest attested in a surname; compare Old Icelandic epla-garðr] now rare
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of fruit > [noun] > orchard or fruit garden > type of
apple-garth1268
oliveyarda1382
olivetc1384
apple orchard?c1400
nut garden1535
oil-garden1535
olive garden1577
lemon-orchard1611
meloniere1658
orange grove1688
melonry1717
nutterya1729
peachery1789
lemon-grove1830
nut grove1840
prune orchard1847
lemon-garden1864
seed orchard1903
1268 in G. Kristensson Stud. Middle Eng. Topogr. Terms (1970) 47 Rob. Ate Applegart.
?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 4 Appylgarth [1483 BL Add. 89074 Appelle garth], pomarium, pometum.
1877 F. S. Merryweather in Free Church of Eng. Mag. Nov. 214 It was at the back of the house; a room with only one narrow ivy-encircled window, looking out upon the ancient apple-garth, and shut in from outer view by the trees.
1957 R. Sutcliff Shield Ring ii. 14 The bower and byres and barns that clustered round the Hall, the kale-garth and the apple-garth where the beeskeps stood.
apple graft n.
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1613 G. Markham Eng. Husbandman: 1st Pt. ii. v. 58 If you take an Apple graft, & a Peare graft, of like bignesse, and..ioyne them as one body in grafting, the fruit they bring forth will be halfe Apple and halfe Peare.
1756 W. Ellis Compl. Planter & Cyderist 31 First graft a Crab near the ground with some good Apple-graft.
1867 J. A. Warder Amer. Pomology iv. 129 Most nurserymen set out their apple grafts in the rows where they are to be grown to full size.
2006 J. Broadwater George Mason, Forgotten Founder iii. 57 Over the years, Mason sent Washington dozens of pear, cherry, and apple grafts.
apple harvest n.
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1616 B. Jonson Forrest iii. 823 in Wks. I The apple-haruest, that doth longer last.
1861 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem III. clxxviii. 214 Apples in apple-harvest, and potatoes in potato time.
2007 Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News (Nexis) 13 June (Life section) d1 As the Washington apple harvest winds down, fruit from New Zealand will fill the gap with Galas and Braeburns.
apple hoard n.
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?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 4 An Appyl hurde, pomerium.
1556 J. Withals Short Dict. (new ed.) sig. G4 The apple hourde, oporotheca.
a1732 J. Gay Wks. (1745) I. 107 Now the squeez'd press foams with our apple hoards.
1849 J. A. Froude Nemesis of Faith 103 How beautiful to turn back the life page to those old winter firesides, when the apple hoards were opened.
1991 J. Burnside Common Knowl. 60 Seasonal as apple hoards and harvests.
apple juice n.
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the world > food and drink > drink > fruit juice or squash > [noun] > other juices or squashes
apple juice?1585
bunnell1594
cherry-water1662
juniper-water1666
fig-water1747
orange-peel water1757
cider1846
sirop1871
pomegranate water1879
soapolallie1895
apfelsaft1934
grapefruit juice1934
?1585 W. C. Aduentures Ladie Egeria sig. I3v Who would..reiect the good children of vertuous Egeria, grafted, bred, and nourished, in the sweete Apple iuyce?
1708 E. Cook Sot-weed Factor 15 There with good Punch and apple Juice, We spent our Hours without abuse.
1898 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 6 Sept. [He] brought us this morning a demijohn of the finest apple juice ever pressed out.
2007 Daily Tel. 15 Jan. 6/2 A new study found that cloudy apple juice made from Champion apples contained 523.8 mg of polymeric procyanidins (a polyphenol) per litre.
apple legend n.
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1864 R. Chambers Bk. of Days II. 757/2 Sir David Brewster, in his Life of Newton does not expressly declare either his acceptance or rejection of the apple-legend.
1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xxviii. 382 The apple legend of Tell.
1999 Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram (Nexis) 13 Oct. (Food section) 1 Apple picking to apple pie, apple games to apple legends. There should be enough here to keep you busy right into November.
apple loft n.
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the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored > other spec.
peltry?c1475
apple loft1569
root cellar1767
cake house1789
bottle store1829
nitre-tank1877
blood bank1936
eye bank1938
tissue-bank1968
1569 T. Blague Schole of Wise Conceytes 67 His sonne being very liberall, brought his fellowes very often into the Apple loftes, saying: Take of these what ye will.
1740 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) II. 120 Go see what's doing in the cheese-chamber and the apple-loft.
1864 Times 8 Feb. 9/4 The lunatic we discovered in the apple loft.
1984 P. Legg Cidermaking in Somerset 7/1 Many Somerset cider cellars have an apple loft above them, occasionally called the ‘tallet’.
apple orchard n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of fruit > [noun] > orchard or fruit garden > type of
apple-garth1268
oliveyarda1382
olivetc1384
apple orchard?c1400
nut garden1535
oil-garden1535
olive garden1577
lemon-orchard1611
meloniere1658
orange grove1688
melonry1717
nutterya1729
peachery1789
lemon-grove1830
nut grove1840
prune orchard1847
lemon-garden1864
seed orchard1903
?c1400 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Sidney Sussex) (1884) lxxviii. 1 (MED) Appel orchardes [a1500 Univ. Oxf. 64 þai sett ierusalem..at the liknynge of appils garthis].
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. xii. 621 The Romane armie having vpon occasion enclosed within her trenches, and round-beset an apple-orchard.
1721 New-Eng. Courant 14–21 Aug. 2/2 There was a larger Apple Orchard at that Place, than on any other Part of the Province.
1859 H. B. Stowe Minister's Wooing iii. 28 The window looked out under the overarching boughs of a thick apple-orchard.
2004 Independent 19 June i. 3/3 Half of Britain's pear orchards and two thirds of Britain's apple orchards have disappeared since 1970.
apple-room n.
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1740 Tryal Mrs Branch 22 He went..to search for the bloody Clothes, and Ann James shew'd the Apple-Room, where the same were put.
1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 235 The apple-room, the pear-bin, the cheese-loft..were household words.
2002 Church Times 22 Nov. 32/3 The old apple-room is now the bookroom... My book-packed farmhouse cannot complain.
apple seed n.
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1699 J. Lord Let. in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1861) 4th Ser. V. 306 Apple-seeds, sown by us since we came, came up in January.
1754 W. Ellis Compl. Cyderman p. xi Apple Seeds will not produce the same Kind of Apple they were had from.
1857 A. Gray First Lessons Bot. 10 Take next the seed of a Plum or Peach, or an Almond, or an Apple-seed.
1995 J. Hildebrand Mapping Farm v. 51 Government surveyors laying out Jefferson's grid upon the prairie often planted apple seeds to mark the section lines.
apple stall n.
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1704 T. Baker Act at Oxf. i. i. 5 The noble Exploit of demolishing a poor Sunday Apple-stall.
1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) v, in Writings I. 48 As though he was cheapening pippins at an apple-stall.
2004 Nelson (N.Z.) Mail (Nexis) 8 Mar. 3 A cash box containing $3 was taken from a Waiwhero Rd apple stall on Sunday night.
apple stem n.
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1860 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 590 There seems to have been no partiality for any particular wood; oak, ash, fir, were indiscriminately taken—even cherry and apple-stems, if at hand.
1907 W. B. Yeats Deirdre 10 Praise the blossoming apple-stem.
2007 Retailing Today (Nexis) 12 Feb. f2 Tesco's Fresh & Easy logo, a clock face with an apple stem..provides evidence that convenience and better eating are crucial selling points.
apple time n.
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1607 Dobsons Drie Bobbes sig. Hv Dobson..agreed with certaine of his merry acquaintances, one night in Apple-time to enter the Orchard.
1666 W. Winstanley Poor Robin sig. C2 Autumn, or Apple-time, is the third Quarter of the Year.
1865 A. C. Swinburne Chastelard iv. i. 120 And now the flower, and deadly fruit will come With apple-time in autumn.
1996 Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) (Nexis) 19 Sept. (West Zoner section) 7 Autumn is apple time, and Saturday is Apple Festival at the Hillsboro Farmers Market.
apple-wood n.
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1789 tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Paul & Mary 182 Tatamacks, ebony and what we hear call apple-wood, olives, and cinnamon.
1860 T. S. Edwards Young Farmer's Man. 257 A tough piece of apple-wood will make about as good a mallet as almost any other kind of wood.
1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 104. 333/2 Polished Apple Wood Pipe, with..rubber stem.
1947 J. C. Rich Materials & Methods Sculpt. x. 285 Applewood is a close-grained, rather soft wood, suitable for delicate detail.
2003 Church Times 14 Feb. 36/3 I sat..before taking a saw to the last of the apple-wood.
apple yard n. [earliest attested in a surname]
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1275 in G. Kristensson Stud. Middle Eng. Topogr. Terms (1970) 47 Elias del Apelyerd.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 13 Appullyerde, pomerium.
1662 C. S. Romanes Sel. Rec. Regality of Melrose (1917) III. 64 On the eist syde of his aple yaird.
1765 Memorial for Alexander Givan (Lord Elliock Reporter) 3 An apple-yard or orchard at the back of the houses.
1897 R. Lanciani Ruins & Excavations Anc. Rome iv. xlvi. 473 It became the fashion to put at the entrance of such ambulationes or gestationes an advertisement to this effect:..‘If you go up and down five times in this apple yard, you will cover a mile.’
2004 News & Observer (Raleigh, N. Carolina) (Nexis) 31 Oct. d2 Ray Fleming, a third generation apple grower, allowed me to hand-pick a bushel of Winesaps from the huge bin in the apple yard.
(b) With the sense ‘made of or with apples’.
apple cake n.
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1733 V. La Chapelle Mod. Cook III. 231 (heading) Apple Cake.
1894 Democratic Standard (Coshocton, Ohio) 27 Apr. Leibnitz delighted in apple cake.
1934 P. Lynch Turf-cutter's Donkey vii. 50 I love apple-cake!
2002 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 3 Apr. d8/4 Apple cake with Medjool date ice cream.
apple cider n.
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1664 J. Beale Let. 1 Apr. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1965) II. 154 A wine, if I may soe call it, wch..will contend wth ye best sort of apple cider.
a1699 T. Nourse Campania Fœlix (1706) xi. 157 Distillers,..extract a sort of Brandy out of this Liquor, as they do likewise from Apple-Cyder.
1837 Alton (Illinois) Observer 9 Mar. Apple cider and brandy... Cider drunkards are the most brutish and cruel of..inebriates.
1908 Times 2 Nov. 3/5 Pure apple cider is as wholesome as it is palatable.
2005 Chile Pepper Oct. 23/2 If you substitute apple cider for the white wine, these stewed apples double as a delicious brunch compote.
apple dumpling n.
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1694 J. Crull Denmark Vindicated 210 He long'd for such Apple-Dumplings as he used to eat at his Father's House.
1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius 293 A regimen of bread and water; or, what is little better, of small beer and apple-dumplings.
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xvi. 96 Hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling.
2007 Intelligencer Jrnl. (Lancaster, Pa.) (Nexis) 19 May b5 In recent years, the church has been known for its bazaars, chicken corn soup and apple dumpling sales.
apple fritter n.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > prepared fruit and dishes > [noun] > apple dishes
apple-moyse1381
apple frittera1475
hot codlings?1610
flapjack1620
baked apple1621
apple pudding1708
black cap1710
pan pie1723
flap-apple1750
charlotte1796
hop-about1820
biffin1822
apple dowdy1823
pandowdy1833
apple charlotte1842
apple snow1846
apple strudel1850
apple hogling1880
apple amber1889
cob1898
apple crumble1947
a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 149 Appulle fruture is good hoot, but þe cold ye not towche.
1702 J. K. tr. F. Massialot Court & Country Cook 48 A proper Batter..like that of Apple-fritters [Fr. une pâte comme celle des beignets de pomme].
1811 W. Irving in C. D. Warner Life (1882) 87 Stand by a frying-pan for an hour and listen to the cooking of apple-fritters.
2007 Daily News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 2 Jan. (News section) 2 The pumpkin scone had 6 grams of trans fat, while the apple fritter had a whopping 12 grams—more than a large order of McDonald's fries.
apple ice n.
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1826 P. G. Patmore Mirror of Months 194 The cool, crisp, and refreshing Nonsuch,—eating, when at its best, like a glass of Apple-ice.
1850 C. E. Beecher Miss Beecher's Domest. Receipt-bk. (ed. 3) xviii. 175 Apple ice (very fine). Take finely-flavored apples, grate them fine, and then make them very sweet, and freeze them.
2004 Conexión (Nexis) 1 July a28 Fruit ices, or granitas... From tropical flavors such as papaya and mango to a simple, spicy apple ice.
apple jelly n.
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1718 Mrs. Mary Eales's Receipts 31 Put to a Pound of Plums..a Pint of Apple-Jelly, and a Pound of fine Sugar.
1868 Godey's Lady's Bk. Dec. 539 Stir some finely-powdered sugar into quince or apple jelly, and drop it on the cake.
1992 A. Bell tr. M. Toussaint-Samat Hist. Food xxi. 628 The food-manufacturing industry uses a comparatively small proportion of apples, mainly as canned apple compote, apple jelly,..and as fruit-pie fillings.
apple marmalade n.
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1769 B. Clermont tr. Professed Cook (ed. 2) II. xiii. 522 Mix a Spoonful of Apple-marmalade [Fr. marmelade de pommes], with a Glass of Water, and a Glass of Verjuice Grape Juice.
1807 M. E. Rundell New Syst. Domest. Cookery (ed. 2) viii. 316 (heading) Apple Marmalade... Scald apples until they will pulp from the core.
2005 Boston Globe (Nexis) 30 Jan. (Globe Northwest section) 9 The shrimp arrive on a bed of lettuce with a side of tasty apple marmalade.
apple pap n.
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a1625 J. Fletcher Monsieur Thomas (1639) iii. i. sig. G1 Which will down easily without apple-pap.
1710 W. Salmon Family Dict. (ed. 4) 304/2 Boil it up to a thickness with the Apple Pap.
2003 Prague Business Jrnl. (Nexis) 17 Mar. Nothing except apple pap and sugar was allowed in the production of these fruit snacks.
apple pasty n.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > pasty > [noun] > types of pasty
dariole?a1400
sambouse1609
venison pastya1616
flapjack1620
stucklinga1655
apple pasty1664
keech1677
marrow pasty1696
flap-apple1750
pâté1768
hoglinga1825
bridie1833
empanada1866
Cornish pasty1877
pelmeni1926
tiddy oggy1942
oggy1948
stromboli1950
samosa1955
1664 H. Woolley Cook's Guide 61 To make little Apple pasties to fry.
1856 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Feb. 207/1 Apple pasties and ‘apple butter’ are always enriched by the delicious, acidulous seasoning of this fruit.
2006 Evening Herald (Plymouth) (Nexis) 18 Dec. 3 An apple pasty I'd bought..had exploded after one bite, showering me in pieces of crust.
apple pudding n.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > puddings > [noun] > sweet or fruit puddings
white pudding1588
quaking puddinga1665
apple pudding1708
cowslip pudding1723
plum pudding1811
roly-poly pudding1821
black cap1822
amber pudding1829
bird's nest pudding1829
slump1831
Bakewell pudding1833
roly-poly1835
dog in a (or the) blanket1842
castle pudding1845
ice pudding1846
pan pie1846
dick1849
roll-up1856
canary pudding1861
roly1861
treacle pud1861
Brown Betty1864
summer pudding1875
parfait1884
schalet1884
Sally Lunn pudding1892
Tommy1895
queen of puddings1903
layer-pudding1909
clafoutis1926
shrikhand1950
chocolate fondant1971
mud-pie1975
tiramisu1982
lava cake1994
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > prepared fruit and dishes > [noun] > apple dishes
apple-moyse1381
apple frittera1475
hot codlings?1610
flapjack1620
baked apple1621
apple pudding1708
black cap1710
pan pie1723
flap-apple1750
charlotte1796
hop-about1820
biffin1822
apple dowdy1823
pandowdy1833
apple charlotte1842
apple snow1846
apple strudel1850
apple hogling1880
apple amber1889
cob1898
apple crumble1947
1708 H. Howard England's Newest Way Cookery (ed. 2) 104/2 Calf's head boiled. Apple-pudding. Roast Tongues.
1807 E. Home in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 97 143 A child..who..ate so large a quantity of apple-pudding that it died.
2005 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 31 Aug. 15 I like this apple pudding recipe because it can be served either hot or cold.
apple tart n.
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1602 R. Marbecke Def. Tabacco 10 A good fat pastie of Venison, must haue no longer a time, either of baking, or of soaking, then an apple Tart.
1774 J. Burgoyne Maid of Oaks i. i. 4 A lamp-lighter spilt a gallon of oil into a cream'd apple-tart.
1846 E. Farnham Prairie Land 134 Sidney..had been initiated into the mysteries of pound-cake, jumbles, and apple-tarts.
2004 Better Homes & Gardens Apr. 284/2 (caption) This is the pan for tarte Tatin, the famous French upside-down apple tart.
apple tea n.
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1748 J. Wesley Jrnl. 25 Apr. in Extract J. Wesley's Jrnl. (1754) 70 I judged it would be best to keep my Bed, and to live a while on Apples and Apple-tea.
1851 Green Bay (Wisconsin) Advocate 23 Oct. 1/3 The disease yielded to a beverage composed of a sort of apple tea and lemon juice.
2002 Los Angeles Times (Electronic ed.) 11 Apr. l13 A young Kurdish couple at the next table poured out small glasses of apple tea.
apple toddy n.
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1792 J. Robinson Yorker's Stratagem i. i. 6 Don't you think, Captain, that we two might make out with a little apple toddy?
1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. vii. ii. 180 The inhabitants not having the fear of the Lord before their eyes, were notoriously prone to get fuddled and make merry with mint julep and apple toddy.
1904 E. Glasgow Deliverance 155 They use to say that you couldn't get to the Hall unless you swam your way through apple toddy.
2003 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. Sentinel (Nexis) 26 Oct. n3 To make hot apple toddy, combine 1/2 ounce apple brandy, rum or both; 1 teaspoon honey and 1/2 ounce fresh lemon juice in a mug and fill with hot tea.
b. Objective.
apple-buyer n.
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?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. B.iijv Andrewe of habyngedon apell byer.
1869 Delphos (Ohio) Herald 9 Dec. 1/6 A large apple buyer in Michigan estimates that a million barrels of apples were frozen in that State, during the recent cold weather.
2006 Grocer (Nexis) 30 Sept. 62 Retail apple buyers are failing growers by continuing to make decisions on price alone.
apple-gathering n.
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1847 Davenport (Iowa) Gaz. 16 Sept. 1/2 To go apple gathering and..to put out your arm around her and to kiss her.
1928 Times 27 Aug. 18/3 Apple varieties that mature earlier have been introduced, and in consequence apple-gathering in August is also a busy business.
2006 Independent (Nexis) 14 Oct. (Save & Spend) 8 Garden Trading has launched these wooden apple trays (£33 for two) and other apple-gathering utensils.
apple-quarterer n. rare
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1868 C. E. Billings U.S. Patent 84,791 1 (title) Improved apple quarterer.
1959 Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) 26 June 20/3 The utensils designed and made by the Shakers..include..a nutmeg grater, herb-drying racks, an apple-quarterer (resembles a steak board).
apple seller n.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of fruit
fruiterer1408
apple seller1440
fruitera1483
costard-jagger?1518
costermonger?1518
apple-monger1540
pippin-monger1607
oporopolist1671
fructster1688
orange merchant1693
coster1851
pearly king1902
pearly1917
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 13 Appullseller, pomilius.
1827 Times 22 June 3/6 A two-inch sketch of an apple-seller riding upon the croup of an ass.
1845 Amer. Whig Rev. Oct. 383 Fat old bourgeois from Lyons,..or apple sellers of Normandy, are not content with such mimicry of the provincial dejeuner à la fourchette.
2006 Miami Herald (Nexis) 3 Sept. j1 The roadside is lined with apple sellers in fall on the way to Sperryville, known as ‘the little apple’ for its abundant orchards.
apple stealing n.
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1828 B. R. Haydon Let. 31 Aug. in B. J. Rees 19th Cent. Lett. (1919) 151 Deerstealing was thought no more of in those days than applestealing in these.
1930 Manitoba Free Press 11 Oct. 3/5 In his small boy days of long ago in quiet England, he remembers being whipped for truancy and apple-stealing.
2000 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 7 Apr. (City section) f4 I remember being..scolded severely for apple stealing, or breaking a window, or for the umpteen other childhood incidents.
c. Similative and parasynthetic.
apple-bright adj.
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1910 ‘M. Maartens’ Harmen Pols 84 He was young: her young face glowed, apple-bright, under its auburn aureole.
1930 E. Sitwell Coll. Poems 90 Their apple-bright and ruddy flesh.
1994 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 1 The shrine of Saint Ursula glows with Memlinc's vision of her apple-bright handmaidens.
apple-cheeked adj.
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the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > redness > [adjective]
redOE
ruddya1300
red-faced1579
cherry-cheeked1586
rose-cheeked1593
red-cheeked1602
murrey1623
florid1650
sanguine1684
sanguine-complexioned1692
apple-faced1781
apple-cheeked1827
pippin-faced1836
lobsterish1914
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > cheek > [adjective] > types of cheek > having
blob-cheeked1552
bright-cheekeda1560
plum-cheeked1598
chub-faced1602
white-cheekedc1602
chuffy1611
lantern-jawed1699
lockram-jawed1699
blubber-cheeked1711
chub-cheeked1715
lank-jawed1778
apple-faced1781
chubby-faced1826
apple-cheeked1827
lank-cheeked1838
bag-cheeked1839
poke-cheeked1843
maiden-cheeked1866
1801 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1956) II. 713 The little red apple-cheeked children.]
1827 W. Hone Every-day Bk. II. 1563 Then came an apple-cheeked dame with a low-crowned, broad-brim hat.
1921 W. de la Mare Crossings 86 A shy, fat, apple-cheeked child.
1998 New Yorker 12 Oct. 45/2 Now that I am entering senior citizenship, I have become blunter than I was as an apple-cheeked circuit rider.
apple-domed adj.
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1935 Hopewell (New Jersey) Herald 24 Apr. 7/6 He [sc. the Chihuahua] has an apple domed head; large, luminous, dark eyes, and a short, moderately pointed nose.
1999 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 11 Sept. a1 The Taco Bell dog..is too lean, too bug-eyed and lacking the ‘nice apple-domed head’ and moderately short muzzle of a champion.
apple-faced adj.
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the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > redness > [adjective]
redOE
ruddya1300
red-faced1579
cherry-cheeked1586
rose-cheeked1593
red-cheeked1602
murrey1623
florid1650
sanguine1684
sanguine-complexioned1692
apple-faced1781
apple-cheeked1827
pippin-faced1836
lobsterish1914
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > cheek > [adjective] > types of cheek > having
blob-cheeked1552
bright-cheekeda1560
plum-cheeked1598
chub-faced1602
white-cheekedc1602
chuffy1611
lantern-jawed1699
lockram-jawed1699
blubber-cheeked1711
chub-cheeked1715
lank-jawed1778
apple-faced1781
chubby-faced1826
apple-cheeked1827
lank-cheeked1838
bag-cheeked1839
poke-cheeked1843
maiden-cheeked1866
1781 J. Byng Diary 16 June in C. B. Andrews Torrington Diaries (1934) I. 26 A Frenchman may think otherwise, from being accustom'd to their apple-faced, smirking beauties.
1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xlii. 457 A little white-headed apple-faced tipstaff.
2006 Pioneer Press (SE. Minnesota) (Nexis) 19 Aug. a9 From disaster movies comes the cast of stock characters—including the British snoot, the apple-faced kids, the hot chick and the action hero.
apple-leaved adj.
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1714 J. Petiver in Philos. Trans. 1713 (Royal Soc.) 28 216 Apple-leaved Forreigner. Mali foli, Arbor exotica.
1875 Burlington (Iowa) Weekly Hawk-eye 1 July 1/6 The Balm and Apple-leaved Geraniums, particularly the latter, are great favourites with every one.
a1925 A. Lowell Ballads for Sale (1927) 278 Leave your eagle crags and eyries, Fly your apple-leaved seclusions.
1973 V. Fowler & G. A. Elbert Fun with Terrarium Gardening vii. 114 Codiaeum punctatum and punctatum aureum. The ‘Apple-leaved Croton’. Rather stiff, with narrow wavery leaves marked with yellow.
apple-rotten adj.
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1905 ‘Q’ Shining Ferry iii. xxvi. 271 The schooner might be apple-rotten.
2003 Charlotte (N. Carolina) Observer (Nexis) 16 Feb. h1 His performance in ‘The Music Man’..[is] dismal, limp, DOA, apple-rotten.
apple-scented adj.
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1852 H. C. Andersen Househ. Words 11 Sept. 610/1 The wild thorn with green apple-scented leaves.
1923 W. de la Mare Riddle 2 The cool apple-scented pantry.
2006 Field July 119/2 Fresh, apple-scented white from the Barolo region.
apple-smelling adj.
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1809 Pearson in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 99 331 The same apple-smelling liquid.
1918 S. Kaye-Smith Little Eng. 13 He loved Jerry as he had loved no human thing since his mother died in the little apple-smelling room above the smithy.
2006 Cornish Guardian (Nexis) 13 July 50 A reader who..was plagued by wasps in August..stopped using a favourite apple-smelling soap and has had no trouble since.
C2. Special combinations.See also apple-john n., apple-moyse n., apple pie n., apple-squire n., apple tree n.
apple aphid n. any of several aphids occurring as pests of apple trees (frequently with distinguishing word).
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1901 Science 6 Dec. 888/2 At the meeting of the section the following papers were read:..‘Apple Aphids’, by E. D. Sanderson; ‘A Folding Fumigator’, by F. A. Serrine.
1928 C. L. Metcalf & W. P. Flint Destructive & Useful Insects 545 Apple Aphids... These are known as the rosy apple aphid, the green apple aphid and the apple-grain aphid.
1968 Fresno (Calif.) Bee 3 Mar. f3/4 Whenever abundant, the apple aphids (rosy and green) can cause apple trees to produce small fruit that never seem to gain full size.
2001 G. C. McGavin Essent. Entomol. 160 The well-known Woolly Apple Aphid (Eriosoma lanigerum), is easily recognizable by the tangled masses of white wax that it secretes.
apple aphis n. now rare an apple aphid; spec. the woolly aphid, Eriosoma lanigerum; cf. apple blight n. (a).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Aphis > lachnus laginerus (American blight)
American blight1815
apple aphis1815
1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. I. 30 The apple aphis..has done such extensive injury to our orchards.
1905 E. P. Powell Orchard & Fruit Garden 12 The apple aphis or plant louse is sometimes one of our very worst orchard troubles.
1971 Amer. Naturalist 105 160 Varieties of apple resistant to the wooly apple aphis tend to have larger amounts of phenolics in their shoots and roots.
apple banana n. a dwarf variety of banana having firm flesh and a faint apple flavour.
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1916 E. V. Wilcox Trop. Agric. ix. 92 Some of these varieties..contain in the unripe condition enough tannin as to be quite unfit for food. This is particularly true of the Apple banana, which is no more palatable than a green persimmon until completely ripe.
1965 Bot. Gaz. 126 200/2 The term ‘apple’ banana is loosely applied to several clones of Musa sapientum..having in common a small bottlenecked fruit with a sweet-acid taste.
1998 Cruising World Oct. 52/3 Savor such local fruits as mango, sunrise (strawberry), papaya, and apple bananas (best when skins are black).
apple bee n. (a) English regional (south-western) a wasp (cf. apple-drone n.); (b) U.S. a gathering to share the work of processing apples (see bee n.3).
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1808 Monthly Mag. 26 421/2 Apple-bee, a wasp. C[ornwall].
1827 Harvard Reg. Nov. 273 Ebenezer Hodge invited me To help his Dolly at an apple bee.
1909 J. E. Pope in L. H. Bailey Cycl. Amer. Agric. IV. vii. 313 Later came the husking-bee and apple-bee, which afforded good excuse for the young to dance and the old to engage in harmless gossip.
1912 C. Mackenzie Carnival xxxix. 397 It was vain for Thomas to assure her that apple-bees did not sting without provocation.
1964 News Jrnl. (Mansfield, Ohio) 1 Oct. 43/1 One of the American scenes described..is an ‘apple bee’. It was the occasion when housewives gathered to share the work of peeling and coring apples for winter purposes.
1979 N. Rogers Wessex Dial. 72/1 Apple bee, a wasp. A Devonshire word.
apple berry n. any of several woody Australasian climbers of the genus Billardiera (family Pittosporaceae), esp. B. scandens; (also) the sweet edible fruit of any of these plants.
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1793 J. E. Smith Specimen Bot. New Holland I. 7 Billardiera scandens..Climbing Apple-berry.
1842 J. Backhouse Narr. Visit Austral. Colonies (1843) p. xxxii Apple Berry. B[illardiera] murabilis has a green cylindrical fruit becoming lighter green or amber colour, when ripe, possessing a pleasant, sub-acid taste but the seeds are numerous and hard.
1888 Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales 3 491 ‘Apple Berry.’ The berries are acid and pleasant when fully ripe. From their shape children call them ‘dumplings’.
2005 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 14 May (Weekend section) 26 Billardiera scandens or apple berry..has edible berries and yellow flowers that bloom throughout the year.
† apple bit n. Obsolete = apple bite n.
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c1250 in Englische Studien (1935) 70 133 For on sori appel bite þat one hedde vndirfonke, Adam wid is faire blite was in pines stronke.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 795 (MED) Of þat ilk appel bitt [Gött. aplis bitt, Trin. Cambr. appels bit] þair suns tethe ar eggeid yitt.
apple bite n. an instance of biting an apple (chiefly with allusion to sense 3); (also) that which is bitten from an apple.
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1867 J. J. Murphy After Fall i in Argosy 4 442 Sins countless in their hideous sum, God-mocking in God's open sight, And strong to strike his knowledge dumb—What were to them an apple-bite!
1888 E. Nesbitt Leaves of Life 160 I cannot save you, Eve! Your apple bite! And—ere your teeth have met—our world grows gray.
1977 Boundary 2 6 47 I see Spicer slowly turning Lorca over, like apple bites, in his mouth, and also tasting the core.
1997 N.Y. Times 14 July b7/2 Ms. Laudani does a funny, fast-paced impersonation of Adam and Eve before and after the apple bite, along with an amusingly kvetchy snake.
apple blight n. †(a) the woolly aphid, Eriosoma lanigerum (cf. American blight n. at American n. and adj. Compounds 3b) (obsolete); (b) a disease caused by the bacterium Erwinia amylovora; = fire blight n. at fire n. and int. Compounds 2a.
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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > bacterial diseases > associated with food or crop plants
fire blight1742
apple blight1835
pear blight1854
leaf scald1870
ring rot1875
angular leaf spot1896
blackarm1902
Moko1913
halo blight1920
1835 J. Rennie in Q. Jrnl. Agric. 6 No. 30. 227 Apple Blight-bug or American blight (E. Mali, Leach)... Found in the chinks and cracks of the trunks of apple trees in early spring.
1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 572 It is probable that this insect [sc. Myzoxyle] is identical with that so well known in England under the name of Apple-blight, which is covered with a white cottony secretion.
1867 J. A. Warder Amer. Pomol. 177 The true apple blight is a malady of very serious character, that invades many orchards in the Western States.
1961 A. Schoenfeld tr. C. Stapp Bacterial Plant Pathogens ii. 134 This disease, variously called ‘fire blight’, ‘blossom blight’, ‘fruit blight’, ‘twig blight’, ‘apple blight’, or ‘pear blight’, according to the place affected, is one of the most dangerous and dreaded tree diseases of North America.
2004 P. Vidhyasekaran Conc. Encycl. Plant Pathol. 299 Transgenic potato plants expressing a..gene from the apple blight pathogen Erwinia amylovora showed resistance to Phytophthora infestans.
apple bloom n. (a) a type of cloth, perhaps resembling apple blossom in colour or pattern; (b) the flower of an apple tree; apple flowers collectively.
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1339 in H. T. Riley Memorials London (1868) 206 (MED) [One surcoat of] appel-blome.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum iv. §390 The daintiest Smells of Flowers, are out of those Plants, whose Leaues smell not; As..Apple-Bloomes, Lime-Tree Bloomes, Beane-Bloomes, &c.
1798 Gentleman's Mag. June 460 A great shew of apple bloom, which seems likely to be injured by the droughty season.
1859 J. R. Lowell Let. May (1904) II. 32 The orchards rosy with apple-blooms.
1861 Amer. Agriculturist July 198/3 Mr. J. F. Cleu..has shown us apple blossoms with 25 to 30 petals, instead of the 5 ordinarily seen in the apple bloom.
1997 G. Glazner Singularity 24 Just breathing, I could let go wholly into the moment.., ears full of bee noise in the apple blooms.
apple bobber n. chiefly U.S. a person who participates in a game of apple-bobbing.
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1893 Lima (Ohio) Times-Democrat 1 Nov. 2/2 The ancient honorable Order of Apple Bobbers.
2005 Times-Picayune (New Orleans) (Nexis) 13 Jan. 32 There was lots of watery excitement as Duncan..turned out to be the apple bobber champion.
apple-bobbing n. a game in which players attempt to pick up apples floating in water using only their mouths, traditionally played at fairs or on Halloween; (also) the action of playing this game; cf. bob-apple n. at bob v.3 Compounds.
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1889 Ladies' Home Jrnl. Oct. 3/3 ‘Kaling’, ‘Apple Bobbing’, the game of the ‘Three Luggies’.., are quite familiar as belonging to Hallow Eve.
1909 Daily Chron. 3 Aug. 3/5 What with apple-bobbing, and tugs-of-war, and obstacle races, and..the like—the whole summer day was hardly long enough.
2005 Peterborough (Ont.) Examiner (Nexis) 4 Nov. b3 Apple bobbing, pumpkin carving and..making dancing skeletons kept everyone busy.
apple borer n. U.S. = apple-tree borer n. at apple tree n. Compounds.
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1826 Mass. Agric. Repository & Jrnl. July 191 The apple borer, is certainly one of the most formidable enemies which the cultivators of the apple, the quince..or American hedge thorn have to dread.
1859 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1857–8 3 344 The most destructive of these..is that known as the apple borer.
1873 Amer. Naturalist 7 538 The May beetle is about three years in obtaining the beetle state, and the wire-worms and boring-beetle, such as the apple-borer, may be four or five years.
1943 B. O. Dodge & H. W. Rickett Dis. & Pests Ornamental Plants 511 Trees that are not growing vigorously are sometimes attacked by the apple borer.
1991 Sonoma Antique Apple Nursery Catal. Winter 30 In areas where apple borers are a particular problem, diatomaceous earth around the trunk can discourage them.
apple box n. (more fully apple box tree) any of several Australian eucalypts (genus Eucalyptus), esp. E. bridgesiana, which are thought to resemble the apple tree in some way; cf. apple tree n. 2.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > eucalyptus trees
yellow box1662
gum tree1676
white gum tree1733
whip-stick1782
peppermint1790
red gum tree1790
red mahogany1798
white gum1798
box1801
blue gum1802
eucalyptus1809
box tree1819
black-butted gum1820
bloodwood1827
white ash1830
blackbutt1833
morrel1837
mountain ash1837
mallee scrub1845
apple gum1846
flooded gum1847
Moreton Bay ash1847
mallee1848
swamp gum1852
box-gum1855
manna gum1855
white top1856
river gum1860
grey box1861
woolly butt1862
marlock1863
fever tree1867
red ironbark1867
river white gum1867
karri1870
yellow jacket1876
eucalypt1877
yapunyah1878
coolibah1879
scribbly gum1883
forest mahogany1884
yellow jack1884
rose gum1885
Jimmy Low1887
nankeen gum1889
slaty gum1889
sugar-gum1889
apple box1890
Murray red gum1895
creek-gum1898
eucalyptian1901
forest red gum1904
river red gum1920
napunyah1921
whitewash gum1923
ghost gum1928
snow gum1928
Sydney blue gum1932
salmon gum1934
lapunyah1940
1890 Argus (Melbourne) 9 Aug. 4/6 An ironstone hill..with apple-box and ironbark dotted about.
1944 F. D. Davison in Coast to Coast 238 The creek made a horseshoe bend under its bower of apple-box-trees.
2001 Conserv. Biol. 15 1366/1 Blakely's red gum Eucalyptus blakelyi, and apple box Eucalyptus bridgesiana are the dominant canopy species.
apple brandy n. a strong spirit, typically distilled from cider.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > brandy > [noun] > brandy not from grapes > apple-brandy
cider brandy1703
apple brandy1740
pupelo1806
applejack1816
Jack1816
calvados1906
1740 J. Arnaud Alarm touching Health 13 That called by some Apple Brandy, is only weak Malt Spirits put into Cyder Casks.
c1780 in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1907) 2 256 [I] accepted 13 gals. of peach brandy in satisfaction of the damage... He cheated me with apple brandy.
1868 Congress. Globe 6 July 3741/3 There are..a very large amount of apple orchards, and the fruit is mostly applied to the distillation of apple brandy.
1929 New Yorker 25 May 22/1 The apple brandy nipped at in the locker-room.
2000 S. Fallon & M. Rothschild World Food: France (Lonely Planet Guide) 220 This strong apple brandy [sc. Calvados] is aged in oak casks for up to six years, and improves remarkably with age.
apple bug n. U.S. a whirligig beetle (family Gyrinidae), which when handled exudes a milky liquid having an odour of apples.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Adephaga (carnivorous beetles) > Hydradephaga (aquatic) > member of family Gyrinidae (whirligig) > apple-bug
apple bug1832
1832 J. P. Kennedy Swallow Barn I. xii. 129 The apple-bugs (as school-boys call that glossy black insect which frequents the summer pools, and is distinguished for the perfume of the apple) danced in busy myriads over the surface of the still water.
1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses xv. 331 When handled they exude a milky fluid, with a distinctive odor like that of overripe apples; whence they are often called ‘apple bugs’.
1982 Ecology 63 551 (table) When squeezed, beetle releases an off-white..viscous fluid from paired pygidial glands. Secretion smells of ripe fruit, causing beetle to be termed ‘apple bug’ by local residents.
apple bush n. Australian any of various shrubs which resemble the apple tree in some way, as Pterocaulon sphacelatum (family Asteraceae ( Compositae)), which emits a fruity aroma when crushed.
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1887 All Year Round 12 Feb. 96/2 Her gaze wandered away..to the bright green clumps of emu and apple bush.
1936 I. L. Idress Cattle King 252 The rabbits had killed all the white wood, apple-bush, and butter-bush.
1982 D. Harris Drovers of Outback 50 We cut apple bush,..and any other edible scrub that we could find.
apple butter n. North American a thick, spiced sauce made from caramelized apples, served as a spread, condiment, or side-dish.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > sauce or dressing > [noun] > fruit sauces
lemon sauce1747
cranberry sauce1767
black butter1775
apple buttera1813
Pennsylvania salve1899
Melba sauce1907
a1813 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur More Lett. from Amer. Farmer (1995) 37 We often make apple butter.
1870 Congress. Globe Apr. 2685/1 Apple-butter is a substitute for butter; it is spread upon bread and eaten in like manner.
1889 Cent. Mag. Jan. 409/2 Hot meats were surrounded by pickles, both sweet and sour; and over all predominated the conventional apple-butter.
1950 F. Klees Pennsylvania Dutch (1968) Epil. 441 The big copper apple-butter kettle is brought forth and the day is filled with the spicy aroma of cooking snitz and cider, cloves, cinnamon, and sassafras.
2002 Canad. Geographic Jan. 42/2 [The orchard] does not sell fruit, only grafted trees and, in bumper years, cider and apple butter.
apple canker n. any of various cankers affecting apple trees, esp. that caused by the ascomycete fungus Nectria galligena.
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1893 Agric. Gaz. New S. Wales 3 439 Apple canker... There are numerous fungi,..which are accustomed to attack..fresh wounds in the bark. A spore of one of these fungi having been carried into the wound, germinates and grows at the expense of the freshly exposed bark tissues.
1950 L. E. Hawker Physiol. Fungi vi. 177 Some such mechanism may account for the fact that the conidia of certain disease organisms, such as Nectria galligena , the cause of apple canker, are discharged only during rainy weather.
2004 Bellingham (Washington) Herald (Nexis) 13 Nov. 3 c Rotted-out patches of trunk bark and girdling twigs and branches may be symptoms of various apple cankers that will weaken and eventually kill apple trees.
apple charlotte n. [compare earlier charlotte n.] a pudding made of stewed apples with a casing or covering of bread, biscuits, sponge cake, or breadcrumbs.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > prepared fruit and dishes > [noun] > apple dishes
apple-moyse1381
apple frittera1475
hot codlings?1610
flapjack1620
baked apple1621
apple pudding1708
black cap1710
pan pie1723
flap-apple1750
charlotte1796
hop-about1820
biffin1822
apple dowdy1823
pandowdy1833
apple charlotte1842
apple snow1846
apple strudel1850
apple hogling1880
apple amber1889
cob1898
apple crumble1947
1842 G. Merle Domest. Dict. & Housekeeper's Man. 168/1 Apple Charlotte. Peel and cut fifteen apples.., put them into a saucepan, with a quarter of a pound of butter, [etc.].
1949 F. Towers Tea with Mr. Rochester (1952) 185 As she went down the hill, she thought with surprise—‘Irene is at this moment arranging the chrysanthemums, or making an apple-charlotte’.
1994 Independent (Nexis) 23 Oct. 49 The magnificent apple charlotte, dry slices of bread soaked in clarified butter, lining a basin and filled with apple marmalade or puree, and baked until golden.
apple cheese n. (a) compressed apple pomace; (b) chiefly North American a thick type of apple butter.
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the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > cider-making > [noun] > apple pulp
pomace1572
apple pomace1664
cider-pressings1664
must1670
cider-marc1676
pug1676
pouse1704
pressing1707
apple cheese1708
pommagec1769
pummy1843
1708 J. Philips Cyder ii. 55 The Apple-Cheese..'twill cherish, and improve the Roots Of sickly Plants.
1844 C. Campbell Bury Lady's Own Cookery Bk. (ed. 3) 219 Apple Cheese. Seven pounds of apples cored, one pound and three quarters of sugar, the juice and peel of two lemons; boil these in a stewpan till quite a thick jelly.
1899 W. Raymond No Soul above Money 122 Paring down the sides, and giving another screw to his apple-cheese.
1989 D. H. Fischer Albion's Seed 543 The Quakers were fond of ‘apple cheese’, as they called it, which was much like apple butter.
apple corer n. an instrument for cutting out the core of apples.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > tools for preparing fruit or nuts
nutcracker1481
nut-crack1570
nutcrackers1600
crackera1640
crack-nut1656
orange-strainer1688
apple scoop1696
orange-peel cutter1757
apple corer1778
lemon-squeezer1781
corer1789
orange squeezer1815
seeder1865
sweat-box1870
reamer1894
stemmer1898
juicer1938
zester1963
1778 Glasse's Art of Cookery (new ed.) ii. 46 Some carrot..cut round with an apple-corer.
1883 Pract. Housek. 490 Apple Corers..are simply tin tubes made of different sizes for large or small apples.
1960 Times 10 Dec. 9/6 Sheep shank apple corers are found in every layer excavated in Britain from the Roman period onwards.
1998 Irish Times (Nexis) 9 May 59 If you don't have an apple corer, use a vegetable peeler, forcing it down the centre of the apple then twisting to loosen the core.
apple crook n. now rare and historical a tool used for harvesting apples from trees; also figurative.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > fruit-picking tool
apple crooka1425
fruit-gatherer1847
cranberry-rake1849
cranberry-gatherer1874
a1425 (a1382) Prefatory Epist. St. Jerome in Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) (1850) 70 The appel croke drawynge tourmentis to synful men.
1999 H. F. Mosher Fall of Year i. 27 Sal jumped up out of the hay and lambasted him with her apple crook and knocked him down into the straw and filth below.
apple dowdy n. [the origin of the second element is unknown; compare slightly later pandowdy n.] U.S. regional (chiefly New England) a dessert consisting of apples baked in a deep dish and topped with a crust which is broken up into the fruit midway through cooking (see pandowdy n.).
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > prepared fruit and dishes > [noun] > apple dishes
apple-moyse1381
apple frittera1475
hot codlings?1610
flapjack1620
baked apple1621
apple pudding1708
black cap1710
pan pie1723
flap-apple1750
charlotte1796
hop-about1820
biffin1822
apple dowdy1823
pandowdy1833
apple charlotte1842
apple snow1846
apple strudel1850
apple hogling1880
apple amber1889
cob1898
apple crumble1947
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > pie > [noun] > fruit pie
vaunt1508
warden-pie1579
apple pie1589
gooseberry-pie1747
plum pie1747
huckleberry pie1751
apple dowdy1823
cobbler1859
lemon pie1909
lemon meringue1914
1823 J. Neal Errata I. i. 27 I was pretty sure to get a double allowance of Indian pudding—pumpkin pies; or pudding and molasses—or apple-dowdy—with a plenty of sweetning at the very next meal.
1854 ‘F. Fern’ Little Ferns for Fanny's Little Friends 120 On the buttery shelves are..plates of doughnuts, and pans of apple dowdy.
1923 W. Nutting Massachusetts Beautiful 241 Did ever a dish of apple dowdy go to the spot like that?
2001 Advocate (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) (Nexis) 1 Mar. f1 My brother-in-law..called recently ranting about a terrible apple dowdy, his wife, Toby, had just served.
apple-drone n. English regional (south-western) a wasp; cf. apple bee n. (a).
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1795 ‘P. Pindar’ Royal Visit Exeter i. 2 Leek bullocks sting'd by appledranes.
1874 W. Cory Let. in J. Drinkwater Muse in Council (1970) 173 To-night we assist a more nimble sort of enemies, ‘apple-drones’, or wasps, close to the stable.
1908 M. P. Willcocks Man of Genius v. 75 Buzz, buzz, buzz, and do nothing all day long, like an apple-drane in a cow-flop.
apple-ducker n. a person who participates in a game of apple-ducking.
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1905 M. Barnes-Grundy Vacillations Hazel 130 His gaze returned to the apple-ducker with interest.
2001 Scotl. on Sunday (Nexis) 21 Oct. 32 I can still remember..plunging my head into the frigid waters of the baby bath to join my fellow apple-dookers.
apple-ducking n. = apple-bobbing n.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > parlour and party games > [noun] > other party or parlour games
drawing of glovesc1540
drawing gloves1599
substantives and adjectives1601
draw gloves1648
grinning-match1711
Move All1782
consequences1811
stagecoach1831
letters1845
Russian scandal1861
buzz1864
snap1865
slappy1868
apple-ducking1886
up Jenkins1889
piladex1895
telephone1910
hot potato1915
sardines1924
murder in the dark1930
pass the parcel1953
seven minutes in (also of) heaven1953
Chinese whispers1964
1886 Harper's Mag. Nov. 843/1 The nut-roasting, the apple-ducking, the candle-singing, ought long to be specially associated with the 31st of October.
1973 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) 7 Aug. 5/2 Munlochy youngster..completed a hat-trick in the..obstacle jumping and the apple-dooking.
2006 S. Wales Echo (Nexis) 27 Oct. 4 Apples are the traditional fruit of Halloween and though they are used raw for fun during customs such as apple ducking, they also go down well as a hot pudding.
apple-eating adj. that eats or is inclined to eat apples; also figurative and allusive.
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the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > [adjective] > tempting > tempted > able to be > easily
apple-eating1620
1620 J. Melton Astrologaster 53 Foolish, credulous, and Appleeating women will believe them.
?1772 Egg, or Mem. Gregory Giddy vii. 44 What a smart well made lord..despair of conquering a tender hearted daughter of the apple eating eve..; no, no, never fear but take my word for it, all women may be won.
1825 E. Smooth Child of Nature 16 Next through each darksome age they ply, The shafts of erring destiny, From apple-eating man.
1843 T. Wilson Pitman's Pay 145 Please the eye and glad the heart Of many an apple-eating boy.
1935 Times 21 June 18/1 A small apple-eating animal might, he said, be a definition of a boy.
2005 Guardian (Nexis) 16 Dec. (Review section) 38 Its lyrics are full of vivid images—Orton depicts herself as an ‘apple-eating heathen, a rib-stealing Eve’.
apple-fallow adj. rare of the reddish yellow colour of an apple, bay; (perhaps also) having spots or dapples of a reddish yellow colour.The precise meaning of the word in Old English is uncertain (see M. Matschi ‘Color Terms in English’ in Onomasiology Online 5 (2004) 72); in modern use chiefly in translations of or with allusion to Beowulf 2165.
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OE Beowulf 2165 Feower mearas lungre, gelice last weardode, æppelfealuwe.
1849 A. D. Wackerbarth tr. Beowulf 83 Forthwith four apple-fallow Steeds, Alike in beauty, as I'm told, Followed his step.
1909 F. B. Gummere tr. Beowulf xxxi, in Oldest Eng. Epic 115 All apple-fallow, four good steeds, Each like the others.
1930 A. Maerz & M. R. Paul Dict. Color 189/2 Apple fallow.
apple fly n. any of various small flying insects found on apples or apple trees; (now) spec. the fly Rhagoletis pomonella (family Trypetidae), native to North America, the larva of which is the apple maggot.
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1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Apple Fly..a small green fly found sometimes within an Apple.
1824 Times 27 Dec. 3/5 (advt.) A full definition of the apple fly, commonly termed the American blight, which causes the canker in apple-trees.
1870 A. S. Packard Guide to Study of Insects (ed. 2) 414 The Apple Fly, or Drosophila, has habits like the apple midge.
1980 Systematic Zool. 29 267/2 Reissig and Smith..reared F1 flies from reciprocal crosses between hawthorn and apple flies on artificial media.
2003 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 100 11490/2 Studies have discerned several cues that apple flies use to recognize apple trees.
apple green n. and adj. (a) n. a shade of green resembling the colour of green apples; (b) adj. (chiefly hyphenated) of this shade or colour.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > [noun] > shade or tint of green > other greens
beech-greenc1450
frost on green1559
sap1572
apple green1648
sap-green1686
myrtle green1717
Brunswick green1790
pistachio1791
pistachio green1793
mountain green1794
lettuce green1834
copper-green1843
canard1872
myrtle1872
leaf-green1880
cress-green1883
cresson1883
watercress green1883
lizard-green1897
jade1921
apple1923
laurel1923
mango1930
laurel-green1938
lettuce1963
mint1967
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Appel-groen, apple-greene.
1797 Heideloff Gallery of Fashion Nov. in R. W. Chapman Sense & Sensibility (1933) 387 Hungarian robe of apple-green satin.
1812 H. Davy Elements Chem. Philos. 426 Oxides of uranium give bright colours to glass..brown, apple green, or emerald green.
1862 G. A. Sala Seven Sons Mammon I. iv. 67 Quilt of eider-down enclosed in apple-green brocade.
1917 D. H. Lawrence Look! We have come Through! 54 The dawn was apple-green.
2001 Veranda July 20 Crisp and tart, apple green continues to provide bite to home decor.
apple-grey adj. (and n.) [compare much earlier foreign-language parallels discussed at dapple-grey adj.] rare = dapple-grey adj.
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > stripiness > [adjective] > streaked > with specific colour
apple-greyc1465
red-streaked1662
c1465 Care of Horses (Yale Beinecke 163) f. 50 Appulle grey is next best. He is best next of he haue a white mane and white taille and faire blakke dappell on the lemys.
1572 in W. Mackay & H. C. Boyd Rec. Inverness (1911) I. 212 Ane apill gray horse.
1640 King & North. Man 54 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. IV. 295 As though his eyes were apple gray.
1825 Lady Maisry in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1885) II. 120/1 Fair fa that bonny apple-gray That carried this gay lord away!
1850 T. Keightley Fairy Mythol. (new ed.) 162 The Icelandic Neck, Kelpie, or Water-Spirit..appears always in the form of a fine apple-grey horse on the sea-shore.
1956 Times 10 Mar. 8/6 It was a dappled cob..that provided my first ride. Dear Apple Grey!]
2004 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 23 June 18 Chaucer used ‘pomely-gray’, an English translation of the French gris-pommele or apple-gray, to describe blotchy apples. Looks as if dapple was simply a corruption of apple.
apple gum n. Australian any of various trees of either of the related genera Eucalyptus and Angophora, thought to resemble the apple tree in some way; cf. apple box n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > eucalyptus trees
yellow box1662
gum tree1676
white gum tree1733
whip-stick1782
peppermint1790
red gum tree1790
red mahogany1798
white gum1798
box1801
blue gum1802
eucalyptus1809
box tree1819
black-butted gum1820
bloodwood1827
white ash1830
blackbutt1833
morrel1837
mountain ash1837
mallee scrub1845
apple gum1846
flooded gum1847
Moreton Bay ash1847
mallee1848
swamp gum1852
box-gum1855
manna gum1855
white top1856
river gum1860
grey box1861
woolly butt1862
marlock1863
fever tree1867
red ironbark1867
river white gum1867
karri1870
yellow jacket1876
eucalypt1877
yapunyah1878
coolibah1879
scribbly gum1883
forest mahogany1884
yellow jack1884
rose gum1885
Jimmy Low1887
nankeen gum1889
slaty gum1889
sugar-gum1889
apple box1890
Murray red gum1895
creek-gum1898
eucalyptian1901
forest red gum1904
river red gum1920
napunyah1921
whitewash gum1923
ghost gum1928
snow gum1928
Sydney blue gum1932
salmon gum1934
lapunyah1940
1846 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 16 222 They are mostly timbered with bow, apple-gum (a new species of gum, with the foliage of the apple-tree of the Darling Downs).
1888 Centennial Mag. (Austral.) 1 132 The apple gum is well named, for the leaves are dusted with a pea-green bloom much like that of a growing apple, while..the tree gives off a soft aroma suggestive of stone pippins mellowing in the straw.
1998 Daily Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 18 July h16 Australia is home to almost 700 species of eucalypt and 13 species of angophora, or apple gum, that originates from the country's east.
apple head n. a small, rounded head or skull, esp. as seen in certain small breeds of dog.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > parts of > (parts of) head, neck and face
race?1523
worm1530
rake1685
apple head1830
hackles1839
stop1867
butterfly nose1878
lay-back1894
1830 J. K. Paulding Politician in Chrons. City of Gotham 208 I found a queer, long-sided man, at least six feet high, with a little apple head.
1922 R. Leighton Compl. Bk. Dog v. xx. 290 These small dogs usually have ‘apple-heads’.
1959 Observer 1 Feb. 11/3 ‘Apple’ heads (that is a thick, domed skull with snipey fore-face)..are particularly deplored [in toy poodles].
2002 J. Cunliffe Encycl. Dog Breeds (new ed.) 34/2 An apple head or apple skull is synonymous with a domed skull.
apple-headed adj. having or characterized by an apple head.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [adjective] > having specific type parts
sawinga1398
prick-eareda1425
well hanged1592
curtal1599
well-hung1611
unwormeda1625
uncropped1802
undocked1802
ring-tailed1821
apple-headed1854
gay1894
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words I. 38 Apple-headed, a term applied to a low, stunted oak with a round bushy head.
1880 Proc. Royal Geogr. Soc. 2 350 They [sc. the Yao tribe] used to be spoken of as an ‘apple-headed race’.
1886 Cent. Mag. Apr. 878/1 The head [of the pug] should be large, but the skull must not be domed or ‘apple-headed’.
1956 S. Longstreet Real Jazz xii. 95 The lad was apple-headed, his hair buttered tight down.
1974 W. Leeds Herefordshire Speech 46 Apple-headed, a term applied to a woodland tree, such as an oak, with branches growing lower on the trunk than is usual.
2004 Richmond (Virginia) Times Dispatch (Nexis) 10 Nov. e1 A well-formed Bedlington Terrier will show no signs of ‘shelliness’. Brittanys shouldn't be ‘apple-headed’.
applejack n. (a) North American a strong spirit made from apples; apple brandy; (b) a sweet made from apples baked in pastry; spec. (chiefly East Anglian) an apple turnover.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > brandy > [noun] > brandy not from grapes > apple-brandy
cider brandy1703
apple brandy1740
pupelo1806
applejack1816
Jack1816
calvados1906
1816 ‘Old Scene Painter’ Emigrant's Guide 30 A partial distillation is also made from apples..called Apple-Jack.
1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 9 Apple-jack, sugared apples, baked without pan, in a square thin piece of paste, with two opposite corners turn'd-over the apple.
1937 G. G. Johnson Ante-bellum N. Carolina 90 The housekeeper..spent long hours at apple jacks, sweet potato pies and jelly cakes.
1960 A. O. D. Claxton Suffolk Dial. 20th Cent. (ed. 2) 17 Apple jack, a whole apple, cored but not peeled, covered in pastry and baked.
1990 J. Conaway Napa v. xxxi. 285 It lacked the appeal of a jug of applejack.
apple knocker n. U.S. (a) Baseball slang a baseball player; spec. a batter; cf. sense 5c (now rare); (b) colloquial (frequently depreciative) a yokel or bumpkin; (hence) an ignorant or naive person; (c) colloquial a fruit picker or farmer.
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1902Apple knocker [see sense 5c].
1907 Chicago Sunday Tribune 4 Aug. vi. 4/3 40,000..citizens from other parts of the city..beat it for a quiet day among apple knockers.
1922 N. Anderson Hobo 93 An ‘apple knocker’ picks apples and other fruit.
1982 D. Harper Good Company 14 The fruit tramp, what we call the apple knocker.
1994 H. C. Sisson & D. W. Rowe Coots, Codgers & Curmudgeons 47 Ted took the ten warm-up pitches..and then faced the next apple knocker.
2003 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 11 Jan. a15/6 Locals mocked McAdoo's followers as ‘apple knockers’ and mimicked their drawls.
apple maggot n. the larva of the apple fly, Rhagoletis pomonella, which forms winding tunnels in the flesh of apples (also called railroad worm); (also) the fly itself.
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1866 Circular (Oneida & Wallingford Communities) 23 Apr. 48/1 The larva of the codling moth, or..the apple worm is quite a different insect from the apple maggot.
1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses xvii. 417 The apple maggot or railroad worm, Rhagoletis pomonella, is a pest on apples.
2004 Backwoods Home Mag. Jan. 30/1 Those apple maggots are nasty little critters. But they can be battled successfully.
apple mill n. now chiefly historical = cider-mill n. at cider n. Compounds 2.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for altering consistency > [noun] > press extracting liquids
pressour1348
press1373
apple mill1654
oil pressc1720
society > occupation and work > equipment > mills > [noun] > horse- or walk-mill
horse-mill1530
wheel1623
apple mill1654
walk mill1773
1654 W. Sheppard Parsons Guide 10 Tithes are to be paid for..Fulling, Paper, or Apple-mils that are common and publick mills.
1789 J. Woodforde Diary 21 Oct. (1927) III. 147 I called on him to borrow an Apple Mill.
1827 Torch Light & Public Advertiser (Hagers-Town, Maryland) 11 Oct. Take equal quantities of orange and nutmeg pippins, grind them in an apple mill, and press out the juice.
1939 C. Wittke We who built Amer. vi. 83 Apple mills and cider presses were operated by horses going round and round.
2000 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 19 May (Travel section) t7 One early apple mill consists of a circular stone trough around which a horse used to drag a huge stone wheel.
apple mint n. either of two similar apple-scented mints grown as herbs, Mentha suaveolens, originally of southern Europe (and south-west Britain) and now widely naturalized, and M. × villosa, a hybrid of M. suaveolens and spearmint ( M. spicata); esp. a broad-leaved cultivar of this hybrid, M. × villosa var. alopecuroides.
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1883 Times 2 Sept. 10/3 Symons & Co.,..honourable mention for apple mint.
1974 M. Page & W. T. Stearn Culinary Herbs (Wisley Handbk. 16) 33 Round-leaved Mint (M. suaveolens) is a stout vigorous species often known as Apple Mint or M. rotundifolia, a name properly belonging to hybrids of this with M. longifolia.
1997 C. Stace New Flora Brit. Isles (ed. 2) 575 M. × villosa..–Apple mint..Var. alopecuroides..is the usual Apple-mint of gardens; it comes close to M. suaveolens but has spreading leaf-teeth, not folded under, and pink corolla.
apple-monger n. now rare and historical a dealer in apples, an apple seller; (also more generally) a fruiterer.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of fruit
fruiterer1408
apple seller1440
fruitera1483
costard-jagger?1518
costermonger?1518
apple-monger1540
pippin-monger1607
oporopolist1671
fructster1688
orange merchant1693
coster1851
pearly king1902
pearly1917
1540 Septem Linguaram sig. C5 Pomarius, an aplemonger.
1673 Bp. S. Parker Reproof Rehearsal Transprosed 522 The Apple-mongers and old Women in the Strand..selling and exposing to sale from day to day whole baskets full of Pippins, Paremains, Russettings, and old Apple Johns.
1725 New-Eng. Courant 4 Jan. 2/1 Where Apple-mongers sit, your Stocks were shown.
1859 H. W. Beecher Plain & Pleasant Talk 332 The mild delicacy of an apple..would be mere insipidity to all who are favored with leather mouths. So that there must be toleration even among apple-mongers.
1986 R. E. Stillman Sidney's Poetic Justice vi. 128 Andromana, we are informed in another humorously aristocratic aside, eventually marries an apple-monger.
apple moss n. a moss of the genus Bartramia (family Bartramiaceae), esp. B. pomiformis, having apple-shaped capsules.
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the world > plants > particular plants > moss > [noun] > other mosses
golden maidenhair1578
polytrichon1578
bryon1597
maidenhair moss1597
mountain coralline1598
chalice-moss1610
purple bottle1650
water moss1663
fern-moss1698
hypnum1753
Mnium1754
rock tripe1763
feather-moss1776
scaly water-moss1796
screw moss1804
hog-bed1816
fringe-moss1818
caribou moss1831
apple moss1841
bristle-moss1844
scale-moss1846
anophyte1850
robin's rye1854
wall moss1855
fork-moss1860
thread-moss1864
lattice moss1868
robin-wheat1886
1841–50 B. Maund Floral Reg. ii. 85 Bartramia pomiformis. Common apple-moss.
1864 Intellect. Observer 5 263 The straight-leaved Apple-moss grows on Alpine rocks.
1925 Sci. Monthly Aug. 212 Their capsules, when moist, appear as tiny green apples with the single ruddy cheek marking the operculum of each. This generic characteristic gives license for the common name of apple moss.
1999 Bryologist 102 166/2 I like Dead Kittens for Sphagnum cuspidatum and Apple Moss for Bartramia pomiformis, and I am intrigued by Lurking Leskea, but put off because it is not a Leskea at all.
apple moth n. (originally) the codling moth, Cydia pomonella (family Tortricidae); (later, usually with distinguishing word) any of several other moths that are pests of apples.
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?1787 W. F. Mavor New Dict. Nat. Hist. II. at Moth Those caterpillars which destroy fruit-trees, according to the most celebrated narturalists, are..the Little Ermine; and the Apple-Moth.
1870 J. J. White Cranberry Cult. App. 117 The apple moth..deposits its egg upon the apple in the blossom end, the egg hatches, and the worm eats its way into the fruit.
1966 Science 2 Dec. 1215/2 (title) Embryonic development of the Light brown Apple Moth.
2002 N.Z. Herald 7 Mar. a12 (advt.) This is the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry's third operation of targeted aerial spraying against the painted apple moth.
apple oil n. [after German Apfelöl (A. W. Hofmann 1852, in Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie 81 89)] a compound or mixture of chemicals used to imitate the flavour or scent of apples; esp. the ester isoamyl isovalerate (C10H20O2).
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > other flavourings > [noun]
saffronc1200
rorraa1500
fetida1588
balachong1699
gammon essence1706
ratafia1727
silphium1753
peppermint1811
Honduras sarsaparilla1818
oil of wintergreen1827
wintergreen oil1827
peppermint oil1850
apple oil1852
almond extract1865
duxelles1877
celery salt1897
gianduja1902
onion salt1925
garlic saltc1938
banoffi1994
1852 A. W. Hoffman in N.Y. Jrnl. Pharmacy 1 149 I found..an apple-oil, which, according to my analysis, is nothing but valerianate of amyloxide. Every one must recollect the insupportable smell of rotten apples which fills the laboratory whilst making valerianic acid.
1921 Bot. Gaz. 71 78 Although amyl valerate is generally designated in chemical literature as ‘apple oil’, it is quite certain that this compound has never been identified as a constituent of apples.
1944 R. W. Moncrieff Chem. Senses xiii. 336 Many esters are prepared synthetically for use as perfumes or flavouring essences, e.g...isoamyl isovalerate, used as apple oil.
1995 A. E. Bender & D. A. Bender Dict. Food & Nutrition 148 Flavours, synthetic... Mostly mixtures of esters, e.g...apple oil, ethyl butyrate, ethyl valerianate, ethyl salicylate, amyl butyrate, glycerol, chloroform, and alcohol.
apple paring n. (a) that which is pared from an apple; (a piece of) apple peel; (b) the action of paring an apple; an instance of this; (c) an event at which apples are pared; = apple bee n. (b).
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society > leisure > social event > social gathering > [noun] > gatherings for specific activity
apple paring1656
house raising1704
quilting1768
bee1769
sing-song1769
reading party1781
rocking1786
cotton-picking1795
rolling1819
picking bee1828
candy pulling1834
candy pull1845
taffy-join1854
barn-raising1856
taffy pulling1863
coffee shop1880
log-rolling1883
taffy pull1883
petting party1920
play date1975
1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. iii. 83 Hee'd build you houses, and make leather Coaches, And ships, and cut frogs out of apple parings.
1747 J. Wesley Primitive Physick 55 Apply a thick Apple Paring.
1844 G. Dodd in Penny Mag. 28 Sept. 381/1 The half-work, half-holiday system, of which the ‘building-bees’ and the ‘apple-parings’ of America are modern instances.
1872 Amer. Naturalist 6 238 At the end of the week it [sc. an insect] was still alive, and trying to suck a bit of apple paring.
1879 D. J. Hill Bryant 39 Huskings and apple-parings had not gone out of fashion.
1954 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 10 Nov. 1/1 An apple-paring machine, a wondrous contrivance of wheels and sticks, which eventually peeled an apple.
2007 Lincoln (Nebraska) Jrnl. Star (Nexis) 12 Jan. d3 Pectin extracted from apple parings was used to thicken jellies.
apple pear n. an apple-shaped pear; spec. (in later use) the nashi pear, Pyrus pyrifolia.
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1728 R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum at Pyrus The Pome-Pear, or Apple-Pear which is a small Pear, but round at both Ends, like an Apple, yet the Tree is a Pear-Tree.
1926 Public Opinion 6 Aug. 136/1 This new apple-pear cannot be grown outdoors, but only in greenhouses.
1983 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 9 Feb. c6/2 The Asian pear..is sometimes called a sand pear, and sometimes called an Oriental apple pear.
2004 Houston (Texas) Chron. (Nexis) 18 Aug. (Flavor section) 1 More applelike in shape, the Asian pear has plenty of monikers: Chinese, Japanese, sand or apple pear or simply nashi.
apple-Peru n. U.S. (now rare) the thorn apple or jimson weed, Datura stramonium (cf. apple of Peru n. (a) at Phrases 3e).
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1784 Cutler in Mem. Amer. Academy (1785) I. 419 Apple-peru... Common by the waysides. August.
1835 Star & Republican Banner (Gettysburg, Pa.) 27 Apr. Mary recollected that during her walk, she plucked some pods of Apple Peru, and had eaten some of the seeds.
1850 N. Hawthorne Scarlet Let. i. 56 A grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-peru, and such unsightly vegetation.
1999 R. J. Begiebing Adventures of Allegra Fullerton 148 Fitz Lane..got about only on a pair of crutches as a result..of eating an Apple-Peru plant in his father's garden.
† apple-plum n. Obsolete rare the fruit produced by a plum tree grafted on to an apple stock.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > stone fruit > [noun] > plum > other types of plum
bullacea1375
myxe?1440
prunelloa1450
bullace-fruit1530
wheat-plum1538
wheaten plum1542
pear plum1573
finger plum1577
perdrigon1582
damson plum1584
apple-plum1601
bullace-plum1608
amber plum1629
Christian1629
queen mother1629
cinnamon-plum1664
date1664
Orleans1674
Chickasaw plum1760
blue gage1764
golden drop1772
beach-plum1785
quetsch1839
egg-plum1859
hog plum1863
bladder-plum1869
prune1872
Carlsbad plum1885
apricot plum1893
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > trees or plants bearing stone fruit > plum-tree > grafted to other type of tree
apple-plum1601
nut-plum1601
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xv. xiii. 437 They began to graffe plums upon apple-tree stocks, and those brought forth Plums named Apple-plums [Fr. prunes-pommes].
apple-polisher n. North American colloquial a person who attempts to curry favour with a superior; a toady, a flatterer.
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1918 N.Y. Times 30 Nov. 10/6 A flash of common sense..might have saved us from being obliged to..contemplate the ideal world as being made up of highly competent apple polishers and pencil sharpeners.
1929 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 4 Feb. 1/7 It is a mistaken notion that a co-ed is just an apple-polisher, concerned with nothing but..the good grades she can squeeze out of a prof.
1947 E. A. McCourt Music at Close 116 The apple-polishers in the front row laughed with forced heartiness.
1989 D. H. Hackworth & J. Sherman About Face 400 To me, he was an apple-polisher and an asskisser.
2000 Sun-Herald (Sydney) 18 June 2/3 Surrounded by apple polishers and brown nosers at your office? You're not the only one. The art of sucking up to the boss is rapidly on the increase.
apple-polishing n. North American colloquial currying favour, toadying; an instance of this.
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1926 Los Angeles Times 21 Feb. ii. 4/6 Conversation with pupils, in local academic slang, is known as ‘apple polishing’.
1929 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 5 Oct. 24/2 An insincere student, by continually talking with professors about courses may become interested and proficient in his studies. The apple-polishing game, which starts out as one on the instructor, may hit back.
1983 Med. Lab. Observer (Nexis) Jan. Volunteering assistance with these chores isn't apple-polishing; it just shows a willingness to contribute to the team.
2006 New Yorker (Nexis) 22 May 81 A little apple-polishing is understandable for a reporter whose day job depends upon access.
apple pomace n. (also apple pomice, apple pummice) = pomace n. 3.
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the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > cider-making > [noun] > apple pulp
pomace1572
apple pomace1664
cider-pressings1664
must1670
cider-marc1676
pug1676
pouse1704
pressing1707
apple cheese1708
pommagec1769
pummy1843
1664 J. Newburgh in J. Evelyn Pomona in Sylva 42 Water, wherein a good quantity of Apple-pomice hath been boyled.
1768 G. Washington Diary (1925) I. 297 Sowed Apple Pummice in the New Garden.
1846 E. Emmons Agric. N.Y. I. 360 Apple pumice, in which, during decomposition, much ammonia and phosphates exist.
1891 Science Aug. 72 A trial of apple pomace as food for pigs resulted unsatisfactorily.
1923 Landmark (Statesville, N. Carolina) 20 Sept. 1/3 A complete 15-gallon copper still was found in the kitchen..and a tub of apple pomice was found in the well house.
2006 Prepared Foods (Nexis) 1 June 117 Commercial pectin is extracted from citrus peels..and dried apple pomace.
apple quince n. a variety of quince having apple-shaped fruit; the fruit of this.
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1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole iv. xx. 589 The Portingall Apple Quince is a great yellow Quince... The Portingall Peare Quince is not fit to be eaten rawe like the former.
1766 Compl. Farmer at Quince-tree Several kinds, as the pear-quince, the apple-quince, and the Portugal quince.
1888 W. W. Meech Quince Cult. 22 Some speak of the Apple quince as distinct to the Orange; but, as generally understood, they are one and the same variety.
1905 E. P. Powell Orchard & Fruit Garden vii. 90 The Orange or Apple quince should be grown in the bush form, with perhaps three or four limbs coming directly from the ground.
2003 V. R. Phillips tr. C. Ferber Mes Tartes 175 Quince Tart with Slivered Citrus Zest... 11 oz...rich flaky pastry..4 attractive apple-quinces or pear-quinces.
apple ring n. a ring-shaped slice of apple, often cooked or fried in various dishes.
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1880 ‘Mrs. Frederick’ Hints to Housewives vii. 78 Apple Rings.—Peel some nice large apples, slice them through, first taking out the core, into rings.
2005 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. (Nexis) 23 Feb. f1 Serve warm, with sauteed apple rings and a dusting of icing sugar.
apple roaster n. now chiefly historical an apparatus used for roasting (whole) apples, esp. one placed in front of a fire and consisting of a tin frame, shelf, and canopy for reflecting heat on to the side of the apples not facing the fire.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > stove or cooker > [noun] > oven > other types of oven
broiling-iron1562
broil-iron1567
apple roaster1637
bread oven1745
pot-oven1750
Dutch oven1769
caboose1779
roaster1796
gas oven1810
kitchen1826
tandoor1840
water oven1848
ti-oven1896
roaster oven1940
1637 in J. S. Moore Clifton & Westbury Probate Inventories (1981) 70 One halfe pint, 2 Chamber potes and one Appell Roster.
1721 Particular & Inventory F. Hawes (South-Sea Company) 10/2 Tin ditto... Apple Roaster and candle Box.
1873 C. E. Beecher Miss Beecher's Housekeeper ii. xxi. 347 An apple-corer; an apple-roaster; an egg-boiler; [etc.].
1999 Capital (Annapolis, Maryland) (Nexis) 1 Oct. 15 By the 18th century, there were all sorts of items made of tin, from footwarmers to coffee pots and apple roasters.
apple rose n. the rose Rosa villosa, which has apple-scented blue-green foliage, pink flowers, and large hips.
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1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole cix. 418 Rosa Pomifera maior. The great Apple Rose. The stemme or stocke of this Rose is great, couered with a darke grayish barke.
1789 W. Camden Britannia III. 100 Rosa villosa. Apple Rose; in Grasswood near Kilnsay, and elsewhere.
1873 Chambers's Encycl. V. 373/2 at Hip For this purpose [sc. preserving], the large soft hips of the Apple Rose (Rosa pomifera) are preferred.
1949 Times 20 Aug. 6/4 The apple-rose rivals them [sc. rugosa roses] with its enormous rich red fruits which have so effective a setting in the bluish foliage.
2003 Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) (Nexis) 11 Sept. 26 Called the apple rose not only for the red, apple-shaped hips, but also because the foliage and flowers smell like apples.
apple rust n. any of several rust fungi of the genus Gynosporangium, esp. G. juniperivirginianae, which alternately infects red cedar ( Juniperus virginiana) and the apple; the disease caused by this, resulting (in the apple) in lesions on the leaves and distorted fruit.
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1887 Bot. Gaz. 12 121 The spores now formed are carried in the air to the apple tree..where they produce the apple rust.
1939 E. A. Bessey Text-bk. Mycol. (new ed.) x. 268 The apple rust (Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae ) has been found to be susceptible to control by removal of its alternate host, the red cedar.
1996 Times–Union (Albany, N.Y.) (Nexis) 10 Nov. c1 There are different kinds of killing molds, infections, apple scabs, apple rust or tar spots on leaves. If left on the ground, these leaves can recontaminate the tree the following year.
apple sauce n. (and int.) (a) a sauce made from cooked apples; (b) North American slang (frequently as one word) nonsense; insincere flattery; lies.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun]
magged talea1387
moonshine1468
trumperyc1485
foolishness1531
trash1542
baggage1545
flim-flam1570
gear1570
rubbisha1576
fiddle-faddle1577
stuff1579
fible-fable1581
balductum1593
pill1608
nonsense1612
skimble-skamble1619
porridge1642
mataeology1656
fiddle-come-faddle1663
apple sauce1672
balderdash1674
flummery1749
slang1762
all my eye1763
diddle-daddle1778
(all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781
twaddle1782
blancmange1790
fudge1791
twiddle-twaddle1798
bothering1803
fee-faw-fum1811
slip-slop1811
nash-gab1816
flitter-tripe1822
effutiation1823
bladderdash1826
ráiméis1828
fiddlededee1843
pickles1846
rot1846
kelter1847
bosh1850
flummadiddle1850
poppycock1852
Barnum1856
fribble-frabble1859
kibosh1860
skittle1864
cod1866
Collyweston1867
punk1869
slush1869
stupidness1873
bilge-water1878
flapdoodle1878
tommyrot1880
ruck1882
piffle1884
flamdoodle1888
razzmatazz1888
balls1889
pop1890
narrischkeit1892
tosh1892
footle1894
tripe1895
crap1898
bunk1900
junk1906
quatsch1907
bilge1908
B.S.1912
bellywash1913
jazz1913
wash1913
bullshit?1915
kid-stakes1916
hokum1917
bollock1919
bullsh1919
bushwa1920
noise1920
bish-bosh1922
malarkey1923
posh1923
hooey1924
shit1924
heifer dust1927
madam1927
baloney1928
horse feathers1928
phonus-bolonus1929
rhubarb1929
spinach1929
toffeea1930
tomtit1930
hockey1931
phoney baloney1933
moody1934
cockalorum1936
cock1937
mess1937
waffle1937
berley1941
bull dust1943
crud1943
globaloney1943
hubba-hubba1944
pish1944
phooey1946
asswipe1947
chickenshit1947
slag1948
batshit1950
goop1950
slop1952
cack1954
doo-doo1954
cobbler1955
horse shit1955
nyamps1955
pony1956
horse manure1957
waffling1958
bird shit1959
codswallop1959
how's your father1959
dog shit1963
cods1965
shmegegge1968
pucky1970
taradiddle1970
mouthwash1971
wank1974
gobshite1977
mince1985
toss1990
arse1993
1672 J. Eachard Let. 37 in Mr. Hobbs's State Nature Considered Plaister of Paris, Puff'd past, Curds and Apple-sauce, I would not have answered you one word.
1737 Smith's Compl. Housewife (ed. 8) 104 Boil them as you do Apple-sauce.
1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 287 Miss Reid and Miss Harvey were names quite as inseparable as goose and apple-sauce.
1897 W. E. Barton Hero in Homespun 229 Jennie brought out..a high pie,..made of several layers of biscuit dough alternating with apple sauce.
1925 in R. Lardner Love Nest & Other Stories (1926) iii. 71 Yes, Mr. Jollier, but I wasn't born yesterday and I know apple sauce when I hear it and I bet you've told that to fifty girls.
1934 J. O'Hara Appointment in Samarra (1935) ii. 45 ‘I just didn't want to spoil your evening, that's all.’ ‘Applesauce,’ said Irma.
1946 S. Newton Paul Bunyan 55 Paul's belly pains were caused by eating too much apple sauce.
2007 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 19 May d2 Any notion that the Ducks were thinking, ‘Let's win this one for Chris’ is pure applesauce.
apple scab n. a common disease of apple trees caused by the ascomycete fungus Venturia inaequalis, characterized by the occurrence of dark blotches on the leaves and dark scab-like spots on the fruit.
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1885 Amer. Naturalist 19 172 Professor Trelease gives accurate popular descriptions of the..apple scab and leaf blight (Fusicladium dendriticum).
1902 E. S. Goff Lessons Commerc. Fruit Growing ii. 66 The apple scab may be largely controlled by thorough spraying with bordeaux mixture.
1990 N. Hill Death grows on You (1992) xiii. 164 The Bramleys are going to be late this year, and not good, he says gloomily, because they got apple scab.
apple scoop n. now historical a scoop or spoon, typically made of bone, used to bore into apples, esp. in order to remove the core.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > tools for preparing fruit or nuts
nutcracker1481
nut-crack1570
nutcrackers1600
crackera1640
crack-nut1656
orange-strainer1688
apple scoop1696
orange-peel cutter1757
apple corer1778
lemon-squeezer1781
corer1789
orange squeezer1815
seeder1865
sweat-box1870
reamer1894
stemmer1898
juicer1938
zester1963
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > spoon
tiremoelle1669
marrow spoon1693
scoop1747
marrow scoop1755
cooking spoon1848
measuring spoon1926–7
apple scoop1969
1696 R. Norton Pausanias 28 Look here a great peice of Chalk—a Scrap of Parchmin—,a great peice of Allum,—an Apple Scoop, and a raw Turnip.
1704 Dict. Rusticum at Inoculation Take a Goose-quill, cut half way, in the form of an Apple-Scoop.
1829 C. Lamb Let. 27 Feb. (1935) III. 211 Most took it for a marrow spoon, an apple scoop, a banker's guinea shovel.
1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Apple-scoap, an apple-scoop. An instrument made of a sheep's metacarpal bone..used for taking the cores out of apples.
1969 E. H. Pinto Treen 83 Although the main purpose of an apple scoop was to enable one who had lost his or her teeth, to eat a raw apple, the larger ones were also used as efficient apple corers.
2005 Independent 10 Nov. 11/2 Three 18th-century apple or cheese scoops from London, made from the metapodial bones of sheep.
apple-shaped adj. shaped like an apple; spec. (of a person or body-type) characterized by a tendency to store fat around the abdomen, rather than on the hips or thighs.
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1779 J. Abercrombie Brit. Fruit-gardener 255 Apple-shaped quince.
1860 J. H. Ingraham Throne of David x. 332 Each one adorned..with apple-shaped knops, and almonds of wrought gold.
1880 R. Browning Pan & Luna 42 That apple-shaped Head which its hair binds close into a ball.
1912 W. Tibbles Foods iii. xxiii. 632 The red guava, P. pomiferum, is apple-shaped.
1990 Sunday Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 4 Feb. Women who are ‘apple-shaped’ are at a significantly greater risk of developing breast cancer than those who are ‘pear-shaped’, according to a new study in the US.
2001 Science 7 Dec. 2071/1 People who carry excess fat around their waists—the so-called apple-shaped body type—are more prone to obesity-related maladies.
† apple shell n. Obsolete the shell of an apple snail (family Ampullariidae); (also) the snail itself.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Holostomata > family Paludinidae > member of
river snaila1398
apple shell1854
1854 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 4 111 For the moon they made a silver palace in the form of an apple-shell.
1870 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. (1880) 408 Ampullaria canaliculata. one of the Apple shells.
apple slump n. U.S. regional (chiefly New England) a dessert of sliced apples baked in a deep dish or pot with a topping of thick pastry; cf. slump n.2 Additions and apple dowdy n.
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1831 H. J. Finn Amer. Comic Ann. 140 The pumpkin pies and apple slump..were smoking on the table.
1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 415 Apple-Slump is..a favorite New England dish, consisting of apples and molasses baked within a bread-pie in an iron pot.
1947 R. Berolzheimer et al. U.S. Regional Cook Bk. 143 Rhode Island apple slump.
2004 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Jrnl. (Nexis) 6 Oct. c1 Granny Smith..is great for making pies, cobblers, Brown Betty, pandowdy or apple slump.
apple snail n. (a) any of various freshwater prosobranch molluscs constituting the family Ampullariidae; esp. those of the New World genus Pomacea, which are popular in tropical aquaria and can grow to a large size, but have become a serious pest following introduction in Asia; (b) British the edible snail, Helix pomatia.
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1797 G. Humphreys Museum Calonnianum 58 (heading) Genus III. Pomus—Pomme—Apple Snail.
1869 Amer. Naturalist 3 38 Picking up a few Apple-snails (Ampullariæ), I walked briskly towards town.
1939 T. L. Green Pract. Animal Biol. i. 83 The Roman or Apple Snail (Helix pomatia) should be used for dissection, though the common garden snail..can be used.
1975 BioScience 25 309/3 The apple snail (Pomacea paludosa) [is] the sole food of the endangered Everglades kite.
2006 Jrnl. Food Composition & Anal. 19 749/2 Some fish species contribute to the biological control of rice pests such as apple snails, stem borers or caseworms.
apple snow n. a dessert dish consisting of cooked apples folded into a bed of whipped egg whites (see snow n.1 5a).
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > prepared fruit and dishes > [noun] > apple dishes
apple-moyse1381
apple frittera1475
hot codlings?1610
flapjack1620
baked apple1621
apple pudding1708
black cap1710
pan pie1723
flap-apple1750
charlotte1796
hop-about1820
biffin1822
apple dowdy1823
pandowdy1833
apple charlotte1842
apple snow1846
apple strudel1850
apple hogling1880
apple amber1889
cob1898
apple crumble1947
1846 C. E. Beecher Miss Beecher's Domest. Receipt Bk. xviii. 176 Apple snow. Put twelve very tart apples in cold water over a slow fire. When soft, take away the skins and cores, and mix in a pint of sifted white sugar [etc.].
1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. xxix. 703 Apple Snow... 10 good-sized apples, the whites of 10 eggs, the rind of 1 lemon, ½ lb. of pounded sugar.
1920 Manitoba Morning Free Press 31 Dec. 41/5 When making a mayonnaise, in which only the yolks of eggs are used, the economical housekeeper will use the whites in a dessert, such as apple snow.
2006 Observer (Nexis) 4 June (Mag.) 55 It is odd that such a cheap, straightforward and delicious dessert as apple snow has all but disappeared.
† apple's queen n. Obsolete rare Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > Pomona
Pomona1480
apple's queen?1614
?1614 W. Drummond Sonnet: The Sunne is faire in Poems Faire looketh Ceres with her yellow haire, And Apples-Queene, when Rose-cheekt Shee doth smile.
apple strudel n. [ < apple n. + German Strudel strudel n., after German Apfelstrudel] a sweet consisting of a spiced apple mixture baked in a roll of flaky pastry.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > prepared fruit and dishes > [noun] > apple dishes
apple-moyse1381
apple frittera1475
hot codlings?1610
flapjack1620
baked apple1621
apple pudding1708
black cap1710
pan pie1723
flap-apple1750
charlotte1796
hop-about1820
biffin1822
apple dowdy1823
pandowdy1833
apple charlotte1842
apple snow1846
apple strudel1850
apple hogling1880
apple amber1889
cob1898
apple crumble1947
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > sweet or rich pastries > [noun]
puff1419
curd tart1594
baklava1650
petits choux1702
chou1706
pastry1708
millefeuille1733
pithivier1834
frangipane1844
apple strudel1850
cream puff1851
ensaimada1867
profiterole1884
Napoleon cake1892
strudel1893
milk tart1896
Napoleon1896
St. Honoré1907
cream horn1908
bear claw1915
butterhorn1920
churro1929
vanilla slice1930
Danish pastry1934
gur cake1936
rugelach1941
pain au chocolat1944
religieuse1954
Pop Tart1964
Napoleon pastry1969
1850 C. H. Meeker tr. ‘J. H. Rausse’ Errors Pract. Water-cure 266 Whoever has been so unfortunate..[to] experience..Tyrolean apple-strudel (a sort of colossal apple dumpling, made of dough a little shortened, and fried in a sea of fat).
1935 M. Lane Faith, Hope, No Charity iv. 108 Ada's friend from the Jewish caterers..came round with a four-pound apple strudel.
2000 You & your Wedding Mar. (Honeymoon Destinations Suppl.) 84/3 Fuel up on a hearty lunch of paprika-peppered goulash, and apple strudel with lashings of cream.
apple sucker n. a jumping plant louse, Psylla mali, whose larvae damage the blossom and leaf buds of apple trees.
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1895 Times 6 May 3/2 The pests referred to include winter moth, apple blossom weevil, and apple sucker, and full instructions are given as to the means of checking their attacks.
1925 A. D. Imms Gen. Textbk. Entomol. iii. 359 The life-history of the ‘Apple Sucker’ Psylla mali..may be regarded as fairly typical... It passes the winter in the egg.
1991 Gardener Jan. 36/2 Winter wash [with tar oil] kills useful insects, such as lace-wings, together with the eggs of aphids and apple suckers we want to destroy.
apple turnover n. a type of tart in which slices of apple are laid on one half of a piece of rolled-out pastry, and the other half is turned over it; cf. turn-over n.2 5.
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1786 W. H. Davies Plays written for Private Theatre 196 Get them some eggs and pickled pork, and apple turnovers, with a flour crust.
1882 Good Words 23 606 Who brought him venison pasties and apple turnovers and runlets of ale.
1997 L. Carcaterra Apaches i. iii. 51 ‘Uniform on the scene saw no sign of a break-in,’ Russo said, taking a huge bite from an apple turnover.
apple water n. now rare and historical (a) cider; (b) a liquid made from apples boiled with sugar and water, typically served as a soft drink.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > cider > [noun]
ciderc1315
pomadec1400
pomacec1450
pommage1576
apple water1606
pomatum1657
hard cider1786
1606 N. Breton Choice, Chance, & Change sig. C2 Apple water, otherwise called Sider.
1655 W. M. Queens Closet Opened 225 Put in your Oranges, and make them seethe as fast as you can..when they have boiled near an hour, put into them a pint of Apple water.
1734 T. Lobb Rational Methods for Curing Fevers xv. 207 I ordered..Apple Water for her Drink (that is, Water with which the Pulp of roasted Apples had been mixed) a little sweetned.
1800 S. Brown Treat. Yellow Fever 69 Currant jelly dissolved in water, apple-water, barley-water, balm tea, mashmallows tea, &c.
1915 Decatur (Illinois) Daily Rev. 25 June 8/7 Apple water is another very good drink for an invalid... Cut [an apple] in small pieces... Pour one cup of boiling water over it. Add a tablespoon of sugar.
2006 Quadrant (Nexis) 1 Sept. 64 Who is master is moot after much apple-water.
apple-wife n. now rare and historical = apple-woman n.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of fruit > woman
fruitesterc1386
apple-wife1599
apple-woman1607
fruit-wife1611
orange wifea1616
orange-woman1616
coster-wife1661
orange-wench1665
orange-miss1694
fruiteress1713
fruit-girl1750
orange girl1764
fruit-woman1849
costeress1869
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 45 Pomona, the first applewife.
1636 W. Davenant Witts i. sig. B2 Colon keepes more noyse Than..Apple-wives That wrangle for a Sive!
1659 London Chaunticleres vii. 17 There shall not be an Apple-wife in the whole Countrey, but she shall be ingrafted into some branch of our Family.
1824 W. Oliver Coll. of Local Songs 15 He sent the apple-wives to mourn, A month iv wor awd cassell.
1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped xi. 97 Last night ye haggled and argle-bargled like an apple-wife.
1921 J. Buchan Path of King (1923) vii. 157 You are getting as cautious as an apple-wife, Gawain.
2002 V. Traub Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Mod. Eng. i. 76 It was not only noblewomen who has access to theatrical entertainments... Merchant wives, apple-wives, and fishwives also attended stageplays in the public amphitheaters.
apple wine n. an alcoholic drink made from fermented apple juice.
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eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 263 Idromelum, æppelwin, beor.
1715 tr. J. Groeneveld Grounds of Physick 124 What is Cyder, or Apple Wine? It is made of the Juice of Apples,..fermented and desecated.
1824 Atheneum: Spirit of Eng. Mags. 15 Apr. 54/2 In the same manner, cider is..apple wine; and perry and mead, pear and honey wine.
1917 H. W. Conn Bacteria, Yeasts, & Molds in Home (rev. ed.) vi. 71 Homemade wines..are produced from juices of fruit... Cider also is an apple wine.
2000 Niagara Falls (Ont.) Rev. (Nexis) 14 Oct. b3 Apple wine..is a great complement to roast chicken.
apple-woman n. now rare and historical a woman or girl who sells apples, esp. from a stall.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of fruit > woman
fruitesterc1386
apple-wife1599
apple-woman1607
fruit-wife1611
orange wifea1616
orange-woman1616
coster-wife1661
orange-wench1665
orange-miss1694
fruiteress1713
fruit-girl1750
orange girl1764
fruit-woman1849
costeress1869
1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster Famous Hist. Thomas Wyat sig. B4 May we not take tooles of the pies & the aple-women.
1646 W. Prynne Canterburies Doome 132 Prohibiting an Apple-woman to sell Apples on the Lords Day within Pauls Church-yard.
1741 Mem. Martinus Scriblerus 24 in A. Pope Wks. II Yonder are two Apple-women scolding.
1840 T. P. Thompson Exercises (1842) V. 330 If members of parliament had the spirit of apple-women.
1898 T. N. Page Red Rock p. ix They..greet the apple-woman on the corner.
1996 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 3 Feb. b4 He was off and into the apples. The old apple woman attacked him with a fly swatter.
apple worm n. now rare the larva of the codling moth, Cydia pomonella (family Tortricidae); (also) the moth itself.
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1850 New Eng. Farmer 2 252 The others were bored by the common apple-worm.
1912 E. D. Sanderson Insect Pests 624 The common apple worm, the larva of the codling moth, is probably the best known and most destructive of all the apple insects.
1940 Sci. Monthly Apr. 359/2 The introduced codling moth or apple-worm does not appear among the victims.
† applewort n. Botany Obsolete rare (J. Lindley's name for) a plant of the group Pomaceae (equivalent to the modern subfamily Maloideae), which included the apple, pear, quince, etc.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > rosaceous plants > [noun] > rosaceous plant
applewort1846
rosacean1854
1846 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom 564 That Roseworts have some intimate relationship with Myrtleblooms is proved by Appleworts.
1847 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom (ed. 2) 559 Appleworts are closely allied to Rose~worts.
1881 P. Henderson Handbk. Plants 277/1 Appleworts.—An English name proposed for the order Pomaceæ.
apple-yellow adj. and n. (a) adj. of a shade resembling the colour of a yellow apple; (b) n. this shade or colour.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [adjective] > other yellows
honey-yellow1615
butter-coloured1629
gamboge1819
honey-gold1849
lily-yellowc1865
apple-yellow1884
goldenrod1905
mimosa1928
1884 Overland Monthly Aug. 160/2 Let us look at the sports and pastimes [in Beowulf]. In the first lines stands horse-racing on the ‘apple-yellow’ horses.
1953 D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles I. 180 Young birds..are more grey-green, that colour replacing the brighter apple-yellow of the adult.
2004 Edmonton Sun (Nexis) 26 Sept. (Sports section) 6 They stepped on the ice with yellow uniforms. Apple-yellow, of course.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

applev.

Brit. /ˈapl/, U.S. /ˈæp(ə)l/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: apple n.
Etymology: < apple n. Compare earlier appled adj.
Now English regional.
1. intransitive. Of vegetables, flower buds, and esp. (in later use) root crops: to swell into a globular shape; to become shaped like an apple.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [verb]
apple1601
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [verb (intransitive)] > swell (of turnips)
apple1712
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xxi. xvi. 98 For all the sort of them [sc. a type of thistle, perh. an artichoke] during the Summer throughout, never rest and give over, but either they floure, or they apple, or els be readie to bring foorth fruit.
1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner at Pome To Pome or Apple, is said of the Heads of Artichokes when they grow round, and full shaped as an Apple. It is said also of Lettuce, &c.
1712 J. Morton Nat. Hist. Northants. 483 Unless the Soil has some mixture of Sand the Turnips do not apple, as they call it: that is, do not bottom well.
1750 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman IV. ii. 22 The Turneps grew 'till Christmas or longer, and appled well in gravelly or stony Grounds, because their Roots can't here enter so deep.
1798 C. Marshall Introd. Knowl. & Pract. Gardening (ed. 2) xv. 251 The cabbage turnep is of two kinds; one apples above ground, and the other in it.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words I. 16 Apple, to bottom at the roots. Turnips apple well, when the roots well, and assume a bulbous form.
1895 P. H. Emerson Birds, Beasts, & Fishes Norfolk Broadland 114 The fine-leaved turnips that have escaped the fly, but have still to ‘apple’.
1923 E. Gepp Essex Dial. Dict. (ed. 2) 16 Potatoes and onions are said to apple when they develop properly. A dialect use.
1948 M. Carbery & E. Grey Herts. Heritage 57 Me taters be n't applin' like they ed ough'ter.
1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 9/1 Them blubs (bulbs) what we put awaay int' spring's gone an' appled nicely.
2. intransitive. To gather fir cones (see fir-apple n. at fir n. Compounds 2). rare. Eng. Dial. Dict. (at cited word) records this sense as still in use in Worcestershire in 1896.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > [verb (intransitive)] > gather fruit
to beat a tree1611
vindemiate1664
apple1799
1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln ix. 216 The poor people supply themselves with very good fuel by gathering the fir-apples and rotten wood; you will sometimes see twenty children in my plantations appleing, as they call it.
1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 9/1 Going out appling is going out into the woods to collect fir cones for burning.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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