单词 | kitchen physic |
释义 | kitchen physicn. Now English regional or historical. Good, nourishing food and healthy living as a means of restoring good health, as opposed to medicines; (more generally) household remedies, as opposed to those prescribed or sold by doctors, apothecaries, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food otherwise characterized > [noun] > invalid or infants food milkeOE pap1286 pap-meat1440 kitchen physic1566 mammaday1593 suckling meatsc1610 embamma1623 kitchen medicine1684 pappy1807 pobs1824 baby food1832 pobbies1848 1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. H The stronge may eate good looshiouse meate, in kytchins whiche be dreste, The kitchin phisicke, is for them, simplye, the very beste. 1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. D4 If I be ill at ease, I take Kitchin physicke, I make my wyfe my Doctor, and my garden my Apoticaries shop. 1674 R. Godfrey Var. Injuries in Physick 91 By the help of it and other Kitchen Physick, whilst she took none of those Decoctions the Doctor ordered, she safely recovered in the space of ten or twelve dayes, the Doctor thinking she followed his orders. 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 154 Well, after all, Kitchen-Physic is the best Physic. 1802 G. Lipscomb Journey into S. Wales xiii. 138 How infinitely superior is this to the kitchen physic, and mischievous dispensation of family medicines, which a few great persons call, and think, charitable assistances to their poor neighbours. 1876 J. H. Ewing Jan of Windmill viii. 75 The cook said, ‘Goose-grease and kitchen physic for her!’ 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 167/2 Ent nowt wrong wiyim, there ent. All 'e wannts is a bit o' good food an' sum proper kitchin physics. 2004 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 65 592 Hall's somewhat off-hand remark reveals the extent to which the therapy of wisdom had become like hellebore common kitchen physick. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1566 |
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