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单词 moskonfyt
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moskonfytn.

Brit. /ˈmɒskɒnfeɪt/, U.S. /ˈmɔskənˌfeɪt/, /ˈmɑskənˌfeɪt/, South African English /ˈmɒskɒnfeɪt/
Forms: 1800s mos comfeit, 1800s mos-komfyt, 1900s– mos confyt, 1900s– moskomfijt, 1900s– moskonfijt, 1900s– moskonfyt, 1900s– most konfijt.
Origin: A borrowing from Afrikaans. Etymon: Afrikaans moskonfyt.
Etymology: < Afrikaans moskonfyt grape syrup, must syrup (earlier South African Dutch mostkonfijt ) < mos mos n. + konfyt konfyt n.
South African.
A thick syrup prepared from the must of grapes, used chiefly as a sweetener (in cookery and in wine production) and as a spread.
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1872 in A. M. L. Robinson Sel. Articles Cape Monthly Mag. (1978) 282 We will undertake never to..pull face at ‘mos comfeit’.
1891 In Afrikanderland & Land of Ophir (Pall Mall Gaz. Extra No. 58) 13/2 It was mos-komfyt, I found, made with grape-juice.
1905 Agric. Jrnl. Cape Good Hope Oct. 483 The first idea in planting vines is to provide ‘mos confyt’, a kind of grape sugar syrup, which is given as part of their rations to the coloured labourers.
1931 T. J. Haarhoff Vergil in Exper. of S. Afr. i. 3Moskonfyt’ is used, as it was by the Romans, partly as a syrup and partly to break down the acidity of wines.
1953 Cape Times 10 Mar. 2/4 A consignment of 600 110-gallon drums of moskonfyt, which will be processed into wine in Britain.
1975 Daily Dispatch (East London, S. Afr.) 20 Sept. 5 A grape for raisins and also for the production of sweet wines, moskonfyt and even jam.
1991 Flying Springbok (S. Afr.) May 71 At the Dagbreek Museum, you can buy the local speciality, moskonfyt (a grape syrup).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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