单词 | marrowbone |
释义 | marrowbonen. 1. a. A bone containing edible marrow. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > part or joint of animal > [noun] > bones boneeOE marrowbonec1387 ice-bone1576 natch-bone1614 pin bone1640 sucking-bone1648 tasting-bone1850 ham-bone1855 c1387–95 G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. 380 A cook they hadde with hem..To boille the chiknes with the marybones. a1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 5 Take beeff and merybonys, and boyle yt in fayre water. 1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. vii. 158 The bridegrome eateth to his supper..a litle of the maribone of a Chamel. 1637 T. Morton New Eng. Canaan ii. vii. 87 For daintinesse of diet, they [sc. bass] excell the Marybones of Beefe. 1701 C. Cibber Love makes Man ii. 13 Chopping Herbs, and minc'd Meat, and breaking Marrowbones. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature (1805) VII. xxxvii. 591 There is no more reason..why the sight of a human skull and bones in a charnel house should shock us more than the sight of a calve's head or a pair of marrow bones in a dish. 1846 G. Warburton Hochelaga I. 155 The wretch sucked a couple more marrow bones, and became torpid. 1870 De B. R. Keim Sheridan's Troopers 205 A dainty dish..is the marrow-bones of the buffalo. 1902 R. Kipling Just So Stories 146 Taffy took a marrow-bone and sat mousy quiet. 1987 Sunday Express Mag. 20 Sept. 33/1 Add all the vegetables, herbs and seasoning... Put in the marrow bones and potatoes. b. figurative. The centre, core, essential part, etc., of something; cf. marrow n.1 3. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > essence or intrinsic nature > [noun] > essence or essential constituent substancec1480 basea1550 marrowbone1554 ground1580 subsistence1581 basis1601 essence1656 body1664 hardpan1842 1554 H. Latimer Wks. (1845) II. 483 Ye said upon Saturday last, that ye could not find the mass nor the marrow-bones thereof in your book. a1603 T. Cartwright Confut. Rhemists New Test. (1618) 37 Diuorced..both from the body and marrow bones of the Popish Masse, as also from the jimmers and trinkets thereof. a1625 J. Fletcher Noble Gentleman iii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ee2/1 Was it not..as Clerk to the great Band Of maribones, that people call the Switzers? Men made of beufe, and sarcenet? 1634 Noble Souldier i. ii. sig. B2v What I knocke out now is the very Maribone of mirth. 1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia Generalis 471/1 This is the marrow bone of the difference, or matter. a1729 E. Taylor Metrical Hist. Christianity (1962) 407 He said he never in the Word could finde The Masses Marrowbones at all definde. 1863 P. Davidson Pentateuch Vindic. ii. 33 Here was a stumbler for the priests and a marrowbone for the infidels. 1878 N. Amer. Rev. 127 13 The scraps and marrow-bones of office. 1925 V. Lindsay Coll. Poems (rev. ed.) 41 The Dust of Ages holds a glint Of fire from the foundation-stones, Of spangles from the sun's bright face, Of sapphires from earth's marrow-bones. 1991 E. H. Spitz Image & Insight p. xi Seeks..to reinstate..the subjectivity (Yeats' marrow bone) of criticism. c. In plural. Bones struck together as a rudimentary percussion instrument. Frequently used more generally (usually in collocation with cleavers) to designate any kind of primitive or makeshift musical instrument. Cf. marrowbone music n. at Compounds 2. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > [noun] > bones bone1600 snapper1605 knick-knack1650 marrowbones1714 rattle-bones1819 jawbone1844 knicky-knackers1876 1714 Spectator 5 Nov. The Mob drank the King's Health, on their Marrow-bones, in Mother Day's Double. 1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 18 Apr. (1965) I. 351 As if a Foreigner should take his Ideas of English Music from..the marrow bones and cleavers. 1765 B. Thornton (title) Ode on St. Cecilia's Day, adapted to the ancient British Musick; viz. the Salt-box, Jew's-Harp, the Marrow-bones and Cleavers, the Hum~strum or Hurdy-gurdy, etc. 1794 Times 6 Dec. 3/1 in Hist. The Times (1935) I. iv. 67 The whole to conclude with a Solo on the Salt box; and the favourite Marseillais Hymn, with Marrowbones and Cleavers. 1845 C. Dickens Chimes iv. 172 A good-humoured comely woman..came running in,..closely followed by the marrow-bones and cleavers, and the bells. 1866 E. Waugh Robin Hood vii. 29 Daisy. I'll play on the ‘ole banjo’, Though the music it will prove a riddle. While—Sir L. and Sir B. We can come out strong with the marrow bones. 1990 Representations Winter 57 Many songs and caricatures referred to the ‘horns’ that traditionally bedecked the deceived husband and the marrow bones and cleavers that produced the rough music to ridicule him. 2005 J. Barlow Enraged Musician iii. 70 The association of marrowbones and cleavers with political clamour harks back at least to the burning of the rumps at Temple Bar in February 1660 shortly before the Restoration. 2. a. Chiefly in plural. The shin bones; (also) the knees. Frequently used humorously in phrases referring to kneeling in supplication, prayer, etc. Also rarely in singular. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > leg > knee > [noun] kneec825 knop14.. marrowbone1506 gigot1687 knapper1767 prayer-bones1877 bender1925 knobblies1953 1506 tr. Kalender of Shepherdes sig. Kviiiv Frome the kne to the fote in eche legge ben two bones called cannes or mary bones. 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 727/2 Down he fel vpon his maribones. 1620 J. Taylor Praise of Hemp-seed Preamb. sig. B2v And therefore Merchants, Mariners, people all Of all trades, on your marrow-bones downe fall. 1668 J. Dryden Sr Martin Mar-all ii. 23 Down on your marribones and confess the truth. 1736 S. Wesley Poems 401 Strait down on his Marrow-bones falling, he cries, I'll ne'er call You Fool more. 1791 ‘P. Pindar’ Remonstrance 1 Bring on his marrow-bones th' Apostate down. 1812 Pancratia 212 He finished this round by putting in one of his round hits over his antagonist's eye, which he cut severely, and brought him on his marrow bones. 1870 C. Kingsley Legend La Brea 95 Magic brings some positivists Humbly on their marrowbone. 1888 G. MacDonald Elect Lady 108 I only want to bring them to their marrow-bones. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvi. [Eumaeus] 603 They would all to a man have gone down on their marrowbones to him. 1925 W. Cather Professor's House i. ii. 34 I like my closets. I like..not having to get down on my marrow-bones and fumble in dark corners to find my shoes. 1952 D. M. Jones Anathemata v. 145 No, no, on y'r marrow-bones——though you hooked behemoth, you shall kneel! b. In plural. slang. Fists as weapons; (hence) fist fighting. In quot. 1834: knuckles. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > [noun] > part of body as weapon weapon1635 marrowbones1812 1812 Sporting Mag. 40 249 He was alike a stranger to fear in the field of either bayonets or marrowbones. 1818 Sporting Mag. New Ser. 2 165 The distance of twenty-four miles from Lunnun rather damped the ardour of the Marrow-bone fraternity. 1834 W. A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I. 62 I did the slight o' hand work, as you may see by the skin that's gone off these four marrowbones. 1909 A. Bierce Coll. Wks. 169 You'll never see 'em Assail a street-car passenger with stones, Nor brain a woman with their marrow bones. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > others buckle-pit1532 marrowbone1533 put-pin?1577 primus secundus1584 fox in the hole1585 haltering of Hick's mare1585 muss1591 pushpin1598 Jack-in-the-box1600 a penny in the forehead1602 buckerels1649 bumdockdousse1653 peck-point1653 toro1660 wheelbarrow1740 thread-needle1751 thrush-a-thrush1766 runaway ring?1790 Gregory1801 pick-point1801 fighting cocks1807 runaway knock1813 tit-tat-toe1818 French and English1820 honeypots1821 roly-poly1821 tickle-tail1821 pottle1822 King of Cantland1825 tip-top-castle1834 tile1837 statue1839 chip stone1843 hen and chickens1843 king of the castle1843 King Caesar1849 rap-jacket1870 old witch1881 tick-tack-toe1884 twos and threes1896 last across (the road)1904 step1909 king of the hill1928 Pooh-sticks1928 trick or treat1928 stare-you-out1932 king of the mountain1933 dab cricket1938 Urkey1938 trick-or-treating1941 seven-up1950 squashed tomato1959 slot-racing1965 Pog1993 knights- 1533 T. More 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere iv. p. ciii Suche prety playes of lykelyhed as chyldren be wont to playe, as chyrystone mary bone, bokyll pyt, spurne poynt, cobnutte or quaytyng. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [noun] > a symbol > specific symbols cross-bones1798 marrowbones1824 skull and crossbones1826 uroboros1940 corn dolly1952 1762 J. Hall-Stevenson Crazy Tales 152 And on his urn engrav'd there were..Death's head, and with Death's head a pair Of marrow-bones were lay'd across.] 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet III. i. 16 I..sailed under the black flag and marrow-bones. 1875 W. McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 40 Here are the typical marrow-bones, skull, and sandglass. Compounds C1. General attributive. marrowbone holder n. ΚΠ 1940 M. de la Roche Whiteoak Chron. I. v. 28 She unearthed from the depths of a chest of old-fashioned silver a marrow-bone holder. A marrow-bone was ordered and simmered for hours... Then, with it thrust firmly into the holder, she dug out spoonfuls of the smooth dark meat. C2. marrowbone coach n. colloquial rare = marrowbone stage n. ΚΠ 1905 N.E.D. at Marrow sb. Marrow-bone coach. ΚΠ 1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre i. iii. 4 in Wks. II None but a scatterd couey of Fidlers, or one of these Rag-rakers in dung-hills, or some Marrow-bone man at most, would haue beene vp, when thou wert gone abroad. marrowbone music n. rudimentary music played on makeshift instruments; cf. sense 1c. ΚΠ 1884 Graphic 13 Sept. 270/3 Making the most unearthly ‘marrow-bone’ music on frying pans, tin kettles and empty pails. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > pie > [noun] > meat-pie rafiolea1425 shred-pie1573 Florentine1579 marrowbone pie1595 marrow pie1598 meat pie1607 mutton pie1607 olive pie1615 venison piea1616 flesh-pie1616 veal (and ham) piea1625 godiveau1653 lumber-pie1656 mermaid pie1661 umble-pie1663 humble piea1665 trotter-pie1693 stump pie1695 mugget pie1696 pot-pie1702 squab-pie1708 pork pie1723 steak pie1723 Perigord pie1751 pasticcio1772 fidget pie1790 muggety pie1800 numble pie1822 Florentine pie1823 pastilla1834 kidney-pie1836 beef-steak pie1841 stand pie1872 Melton Mowbray1875 timbale1880 pâté en croûte1929 tourtière1953 growler1989 1595 W. Warner tr. Plautus Menaecmi i. ii. sig. B2 Some oysters, a mary-bone pie or two, some artichockes, and potato rootes. 1608 T. Middleton Mad World, my Masters i. sig. Bv All her wanton Pamphlets, as Hero and Leander, Venus and Adonis, oh two lushious mary-bone pies for a yong married wife. 1651 T. Randolph et al. Hey for Honesty i. ii. 8/1 They'll rather feed on Rost-beef and Marrow-bone pyes. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > puddings > [noun] > other puddings alker1381 moile1381 tansyc1450 tansy-cakea1475 hasty pudding1598 hodge-puddinga1616 bread pudding1623 marrowbone pudding1623 marrow-pudding1631 turmeric puddinga1704 Indian pudding1722 Westminster fool1723 pease pudding1725 pone1725 bread and butter pudding1727 custard pudding1727 purry1751 tartan-purry1751 tansy-pudding1769 vermicelli pudding1769 skimmer-cake1795 dogsbody1818 kugel1823 stickjaw1827 kheer1832 pea pudding1844 dough1848 mousseline1876 mousse1885 goose-pudding1892 payasam1892 tartan1893 malva puddinga1981 1623 J. Webster Deuils Law-case i. ii. B 4 b Let none of these come at her..Nor the woman with Maribone puddings. ΚΠ 1820 G. Simpson Let. 28 Apr. in Brit. Columbia Hist. Q. (1937) 1 120 I..was compelled to have recourse to the Marrowbone stage the greater part of the Journey. 1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock 85 The humbler conveyances known as ‘Shanks's mare’, and the ‘Marrowbone stage’—in more refined language, walking. ΚΠ 1829 P. Egan Boxiana New Ser. II. 396 Two miles and a half from Birmingham—an easy distance for the marrow-bone stagers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1387 |
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