单词 | nodden |
释义 | noddenadj. Now English regional (northern) and historical. Kneaded; (hence) compact, hard. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > [adjective] > make (more) dense or solid > by compaction or compression compressedc1374 compacta1398 hard-pressed1562 compacted1598 condensed1606 compress1647 constipated1647 confert1661 clotted1674 noddena1864 tabloid1890 a1864 J. Clare Later Poems (1984) II. 691 Land o' the honest nun forsakes The whiskey gill and nodden cakes. 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby ‘Knodden-paste’, flour with butter or lard for pie-crust. 1927 E. K. Chambers Arthur of Britain vi. 190 At Tarn Wadling, the scene of one of the English romances, was garnered a set of ribald verses from the mouth of an innkeeper... ‘His pudding it was nodden well, And stuffed right full of plums.’ 1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. 88/1 Nodden, hard, rough, coarse. 1991 C. A. Wilson Trad. Food East & West of Pennines 93 Bannocks could be enriched in a variety of ways;..when concealing an inner layer of raisins, currants and candied peel, they became curn or double nodden cakes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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