单词 | mongcorn |
释义 | mongcornn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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). < n.1263 |
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