单词 | jipper |
释义 | jippern. dialect. Gravy; dripping; stew. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > gravy > [noun] gravy1591 jipper1886 1886 W. H. Long Dict. Isle of Wight Dial. 31 Thee'st lat all the jipper out of the pudden. 1896 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang IV. 59/2 Jipper (nautical), gravy. 1900 Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 5 295 The chef de cuisine was an old navy pensioner, and his instructions were: ‘Mind you jipper them [sc. thrushes] well.’ From him I learned to call gravy ‘jipper’, and bread and dripping ‘bread-and-jipper’. 1904 Daily Chron. 12 Aug. 3/7 The mysteries of Irish stew, or ‘gipper’, as it is mysteriously termed in camp. 1909 H. G. Wells Tono-Bungay (U.K. ed.) ii. iii. 195 They [sc. shavings] might be anything. Soak 'em in jipper,—Xylo-tobacco! Derivatives jipper v. transitive, to baste. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > cook [verb (transitive)] > baste enbenec1420 flambc1440 baste?a1475 bebaste1582 jipper1822 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel III. vi. 176 This man Gregory is not fit to jipper a joint with him. 1900 [see main sense]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1822 |
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