请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 merribowk
释义

merribowkn.

Forms: 1600s meribauk, 1600s merribowke, 1600s 1800s merry bauks (English regional).
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: merry adj., bowk n.
Etymology: < merry adj. + bowk n. Compare sillibouk n.
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
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/12/23 14:23:00