单词 | merribowk |
释义 | † merribowkn. Obsolete (English regional (northern) in later use). = posset n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > milk and cream dishes > [noun] > sillabub syllabub?1562 sillibouk1574 sillub1583 merribowk1611 whip-syllabub1740 zabaglione1899 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Laict aigre, whay; also, a sillibub, or merribowke. a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Coxcombe iii. iii, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Oo2v/2 And can you milke a Cow? and make a merry-bush [perh. read -buck or -bouk]?] 1664 O. Heywood Autobiogr., Diaries, Anecd. & Event Bks. (1883) III. 86 She had drunk six meribauk pots ful of ale. 1673 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 32 Merry bauks: a cold Posset, Derb. 1857 T. Wright Dict. Obsolete & Provinc. Eng. Merry bauks, A cold posset. Derb. The word occurs in Cotgrave. 1865 in Eng. Dial. Dict. Merry-bauks. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1611 |
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