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单词 mongcorn
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mongcornn.

Brit. /ˈmʌŋkɔːn/, U.S. /ˈməŋˌkɔrn/
Forms: Middle English moggecorn (in a late copy, perhaps transmission error), Middle English mongorne, Middle English 1900s– mancorn, Middle English–1500s mongcorne, Middle English–1500s mongecorne, Middle English– mongcorn, 1500s moncorne, 1500s–1600s muncorne, 1600s munckcorn, 1600s munckcorne, 1600s mungcorne, 1600s munkcorn, 1600s– muncorn, 1700s mangcorn (in dictionaries), 1700s– mungcorn, 1800s– monkcorn.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mung n.1, corn n.1
Etymology: < mung n.1 + corn n.1Attested earlier in post-classical Latin as mancornum in British sources from the 12th cent. ( < Middle English):1199 Rotuli Chartarum 14/1 Quatuor acras in B., duas sc. de mancorn' et duas de avena.1209 in H. Hall Pipe Roll Winchester (1903) 52 Reddunt compotum de xxxvij s. j d. de xx quarteriis mancorni..de toto exitu novi molindini. Also apparently attested in surnames from the mid 13th cent., as Nich. Mancorn (1255). For the folk etymology of forms in monk- < monk n.1, see quot. 1805 at main sense.
Now English regional.
A mixture of different kinds of grain (usually wheat and rye), esp. when sown together. Cf. maslin n.2 1. Now historical.
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the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [noun] > rye and wheat mixed
mongcorn1263
maslina1400
mashloch1445
mixtilliona1641
miscelleny1745
mixtil1864
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > rye and wheat mixed
mongcorn1263
maslina1400
mixed corn1577
mixtilliona1641
1263 in W. D. Macray Notes Munim. St. Mary Magdalen Coll. Oxf. (1882) 144 Mancorn.
c1350 in London Mediaeval Stud. (1951) 2 45 (MED) I mot haue..Boþe bef and Bacon..Mancorn and maltcorn, mustard and mele.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 334 Mestlyone, or monge corne [?a1475 Winch. mongorne], Mixtilio, bigermen.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Beere corne, barley bygge, or moncorne.
1572 J. Jones Benefit Bathes of Buckstones f. 9v Some [make bread] of Miscelling, or Muncorne, as in Worcester Shyre.
1620 G. Markham Farwell to Husbandry 117 Masline, or as some call it Munck-corne or Blend-corne, being part Rye, and part Wheate mixed together.
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ix. 341 They sow it with Muncorn or Miscellane in the place of wheat.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Bollimong Buck-wheat, a kind of Grain: Also a Medley of several sorts of Grain together, otherwise call'd Mastin, or Mong-corn.
a1796 S. Pegge Two Coll. Derbicisms (1896) 46 Muncorn is mixt corn or miscellane; and mong is mix'd. Littleton writes it truly mong-corn, and I would spell it mong.
1805 J. Duncumb Agric. Herefordsh. 66 Rye, which with an equal proportion of wheat, constituted the bread-corn used in religious houses before their suppression, is now sown but sparingly, but grain thus mixed in flour during a time of scarcity, or dearness, still retains the name of monk-corn, from the circumstances above-mentioned.
1855 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. II. (Gloss.) 724/3 Muncorn (Herefords.), a mixture of different seeds sown to come up as one crop.
1935 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 7 133 Mixed wheat and rye, or muncorn, was sometimes sown on these light lands.
1973 C. A. Wilson Food & Drink in Brit. vii. 235 They..favoured the mixed crop of wheat and rye that was later called maslin (..the Saxon term for it was later corrupted to mancorn or monkcorn).
1997 Oxoniensia 61 323 The principal grains exported from Henley were wheat and mancorn (a mixture of rye and winter barley).

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
mongcorn heap n. Obsolete rare
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1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. v. ii. 67 A iolly rounding of a whole foote broad, From of the Mong-corne heape shall Trebius load.
C2.
mongcorn bread n. now rare (English regional) bread made with different kinds of grain.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > [noun] > mixed-grain bread
maslin bread1539
mongcorn breadc1600
maslin1631
rye and Indian bread1803
c1600 (?c1395) Pierce Ploughman's Crede (Trin. Cambr. R.3.15) (1873) 786 And mene mong [v.r. mogge] corn bred to her mete fongen.
1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xxv. 239 Misslin or Munckcorn-bread, made of Rye and Wheate together.
1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. (at cited word) Muncorn bread's very..good, but theer's nuthin' like a bit o' good w'eaten flour.
mongcorn team n. English regional Obsolete rare a mixed team of horses and oxen.
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1839 G. C. Lewis Gloss. Words Herefordshire 128 A ‘muncorn team’ means a team of horses and oxen mixed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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