单词 | mincemeat |
释义 | mincemeatn. 1. a. Meat cut up or ground into very small pieces. Cf. earlier minced meat n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > cut or piece of meat > [noun] > minced meat minced meat1578 mincemeat1630 collopa1665 mincea1850 α. β. 1903 Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 307/1 A boiled nout-foot is a common accompaniment to the sheep's trotters and minch meat of the tripe-wife's stall.1630 Tincker of Turvey 23 If his wife puts but two fingers daintily into a dish of mince-meat, he sweares she makes hornes at him. 1662 J. A. Comenius Janua Linguarum Trilinguis xxxvi. 88/1 Of meat shread into small pieces he makes mince-meat, tid-bits, jiggets. 1726 J. Mordaunt Let. in E. Hamilton Mordaunts (1965) vii. 143 Her teeth much torment her, which forces her to mob up & wont suffer her to eat anything but Fish & mince meat. 1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery iv. 60 Then lay in your Dish a Layer of Mince-meat. 1789 J. Farley London Art Cookery (ed. 6) i. xi. 116 A Midcalf. Stuff a calf's heart..and send it to the oven... When you dish it up, pour the mincemeat in the bottom. 1820 C. Jeffreys Van Dieman's Land 70 Their meal consisted of the hind-quarters of a kangaroo cut into mince-meat, stewed in its own gravy. 1873 C. E. Beecher Miss Beecher's Housekeeper 37 Strain the soup, and save the meat for mince-meat or hash. 1920 Amer. Woman Aug. 19/4 (advt.) The Enterprise has four interchangeable knives which chop the food as fine or as coarse as needed... No. 3 cuts fine enough for mincemeat. 1994 B. Sterling Heavy Weather 64 Alex munched the mincemeat wedge of fried deer heart, deer liver, and dough while he slowly circled the truck. b. The mixture of currants, raisins, sugar, suet, apples, almonds, candied peel, spices, etc., and originally meat chopped small, typically baked in pastry, as in mince pies and other traditional Christmas dishes. Cf. minced meat n. 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > prepared fruit and dishes > [noun] > dried fruit preparations traina1450 minced meat1762 mincemeat1824 mebos1862 1824 M. Randolph Virginia House-wife 142 Cover the moulds with paste, put in a sufficiency of mince-meat, cover the top with citron, sliced thin, and lay on it a lid. 1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery xvi. 428 Mince Pies. Butter some tin pattypans well, and line them evenly with fine puff paste rolled thin; fill them with mincemeat [etc.]. 1886 G. R. Sims Ring o' Bells iv. ii. 129 My wife makes her own mincemeat and her own plum-puddings. 1919 Maine My State 289 They filled half a dozen with mince-meat. 1955 F. G. Ashbrook Butchering xiv. 291 Originally mincemeat was a mixture of finely chopped or minced meat, suet, fresh and dried fruits, and nuts, citron, molasses, sugar, spices, and brandy and other spirituous liquor, or cider. 1991 D. Richler Kicking Tomorrow xvii. 309 He could already smell..the aroma of..hot stollen, panettone, and mincemeat tartlets with nutmeg, allspice, cinnamon, bourbon, and rum, crowned with sprigs of pine and holly. 2. figurative. Something reduced to small fragments; a jumble, or clumsy mixture of such fragments. Frequently in to make mincemeat of and similar phrases (colloquial): to cut in pieces; to destroy; to defeat decisively or easily in a fight, contest, or argument. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > kill [verb (transitive)] swevec725 quelmeOE slayc893 quelleOE of-falleOE ofslayeOE aquellc950 ayeteeOE spillc950 beliveOE to bring (also do) of (one's) life-dayOE fordoa1000 forfarea1000 asweveOE drepeOE forleseOE martyrOE to do (also i-do, draw) of lifeOE bringc1175 off-quellc1175 quenchc1175 forswelta1225 adeadc1225 to bring of daysc1225 to do to deathc1225 to draw (a person) to deathc1225 murder?c1225 aslayc1275 forferec1275 to lay to ground, to earth (Sc. at eird)c1275 martyrc1300 strangle1303 destroya1325 misdoa1325 killc1330 tailc1330 to take the life of (also fro)c1330 enda1340 to kill to (into, unto) death1362 brittena1375 deadc1374 to ding to deathc1380 mortifya1382 perisha1387 to dight to death1393 colea1400 fella1400 kill out (away, down, up)a1400 to slay up or downa1400 swelta1400 voida1400 deliverc1400 starvec1425 jugylc1440 morta1450 to bring to, on, or upon (one's) bierc1480 to put offc1485 to-slaya1500 to make away with1502 to put (a person or thing) to silencec1503 rida1513 to put downa1525 to hang out of the way1528 dispatch?1529 strikea1535 occidea1538 to firk to death, (out) of lifec1540 to fling to deathc1540 extinct1548 to make out of the way1551 to fet offa1556 to cut offc1565 to make away?1566 occise1575 spoil1578 senda1586 to put away1588 exanimate1593 unmortalize1593 speed1594 unlive1594 execute1597 dislive1598 extinguish1598 to lay along1599 to make hence1605 conclude1606 kill off1607 disanimate1609 feeze1609 to smite, stab in, under the fifth rib1611 to kill dead1615 transporta1616 spatch1616 to take off1619 mactate1623 to make meat of1632 to turn up1642 inanimate1647 pop1649 enecate1657 cadaverate1658 expedite1678 to make dog's meat of1679 to make mincemeat of1709 sluice1749 finisha1753 royna1770 still1778 do1780 deaden1807 deathifyc1810 to lay out1829 cool1833 to use up1833 puckeroo1840 to rub out1840 cadaverize1841 to put under the sod1847 suicide1852 outkill1860 to fix1875 to put under1879 corpse1884 stiffen1888 tip1891 to do away with1899 to take out1900 stretch1902 red-light1906 huff1919 to knock rotten1919 skittle1919 liquidate1924 clip1927 to set over1931 creasea1935 ice1941 lose1942 to put to sleep1942 zap1942 hit1955 to take down1967 wax1968 trash1973 ace1975 the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat > soundly threshc1384 to knock the socks offa1529 thump1597 thrash1609 thwacka1616 capot1649 to beat to snuff1819 to knock into a cocked hat1830 to —— (the) hell out of1833 sledgehammer1834 rout1835 whop1836 skin1838 whip-saw1842 to knock (the) spots off1850 to make mincemeat of1853 to mop (up) the floor with1875 to beat pointless1877 to lick into fits1879 to take apart1880 to knock out1883 wax1884 contund1885 to give (a person) fits1885 to wipe the floor with1887 flatten1892 to knock (someone) for six1902 slaughter1903 slather1910 to hit for six1937 hammer1948 whomp1952 bulldozer1954 zilch1957 shred1966 tank1973 slam-dunk1975 beast1977 α. β. 1774 D. Graham Impartial Hist. Rebellion (ed. 3) v. 62 Which made him minch-meat for the grave.1649 Mercurius Pragmaticus (for King Charls II) No. 7. sig. G1v He must be Cloystered up in some Cave, or Dungeon provided for that purpose, till the saints please to make mince-meate of him by the approbation of the State-doctors, Fairfax, and Snout. 1663 A. Cowley Cutter of Coleman-St. ii. iv. 17 I'l hew thee into so many morsels, that [etc.]... Thou shalt be mince-meat, Worm, within this hour. 1693 T. Southerne Maids Last Prayer i. i. 4 For my part, I always make mince-meat of Any Fellow that offers but half so much to me. 1709 S. Centlivre Busie Body iii. iii. 32 If I shou'd find a Man in the House, I'd make Mince-Meat of him. 1742 A. Pope New Dunciad 220 (note) Stobæus,..an author who gave his Common-place-book to the public, where we happen to find much Mince-meat of old books. 1797 F. Reynolds Will iv. ii. 48 While He makes mince-meat of you, I shall have time to Run away. 1841 G. P. R. James Corse de Leon I. iv. 87 They think that we are hewed into mince-meat. 1853 Ld. Strangford in Croker Papers (1884) III. xxviii. 296 They blame you for letting Johnny Russell off so easily [in a review], when you might have made mincemeat of him. 1876 R. Browning Pacchiarotto & Other Poems 13 Confutation of vassal for prince meet—Wherein all the powers that convince meet, And mash my opponent to mincemeat! 1876 Coursing Cal. 193 Maniac made mincemeat of Smoker, who was so stiff that he could scarcely raise a gallop. 1902 L. Stephen Stud. of Biographer IV. ii. 76 Macaulay..makes mincemeat of Southey's..expositions of political economy. 1955 Times 20 June 13/4 Thames R.C. made mincemeat of all their opponents in the Grand Eights. 1984 Battle Picture Library 83 One occasion when smallness is on your side, and you make mince meat out of the big hefty boys! 1998 P. Jooste Dance with Poor Man's Daughter (1999) xii. 187 The devil has got hold of him..and if you looked at him sideways and he saw you he could change his mind in a second and then it won't be Matilda who's mincemeat but anyone who tries to stop him. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mincemeatv. colloquial. transitive. To cut to pieces, to turn into mincemeat; to kill, to pulverize. Also: to punish harshly or defeat decisively. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > cut [verb (transitive)] > cut to pieces to-carvec950 forhewa1000 forcarveOE to-hackc1000 to-hewc1000 to-slivec1050 to-brittenc1175 shredc1275 to-snedc1275 to-race1297 smitec1300 dismember1303 hewa1382 hew1382 to-cut1382 forcutc1386 brit?a1400 splatc1400 to-shredc1405 upshear1430 detrench1470 dispiece1477 thrusche1483 till-hew1487 despiecea1492 rip1530 share?1566 hash1591 shamble1601 becut1630 betrench1656 mincemeat1861 becarve1863 1861 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) 11 May 217 Thus within a week they have learned..that the Seventh Regiment were mince-meated at Washington. 1879 R. J. Atcherley Trip to Boërland 202 Concluding that I was about to be mincemeated by a Basuto impi. 1897 A. C. Gunter Susan Turnbull ii. 15 Bring him up here, or..I'll mincemeat you! 1982 J. Butterfield et al. What is Dungeons & Dragons? iv. 96 He wouldn't have mincemeated a fly, normally, but he ketchuped my arm. 1998 Washington Post (Nexis) 16 Sept. c9 How many pedestrians have almost been mincemeated by right-on-redders who don't stop—or even slow down? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1630v.1861 |
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