单词 | olykoek |
释义 | olykoekn. U.S. regional (chiefly New York). A small ball-shaped cake made of sweetened dough and traditionally fried in lard (similar to a doughnut).Olykoeks originated in Dutch cookery and were introduced to America by early 17th-cent. Dutch settlers in New York. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > doughnut dough cakea1631 doughnut1782 olykoek1795 nutcake1801 poffertje1804 zeppole1835 krapfen1845 simball1865 sinker1870 doughnut hole1886 vetkoek1900 bear sign1903 koeksister1904 sinker1906 submarine1916 mandazi1937 1740 C. Davies Life & Adventures ii. 27 This Dog..we used to go out with, furnished with oily Cakes, to the Town Ditch, where we lay conceal'd.] 1795 N.-Y. Mag. Jan. 26/2 Upon the whole, Constance, I think you had better..come and eat kiskatoma nuts or oly-cooks at my fire side. 1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. I. iii. iii. 149 Balls of sweetened dough..called doughnuts, or oly koeks. 1820 W. Irving Legend Sleepy Hollow in Sketch Bk. vi. 92 There was the doughty dough-nut, the tenderer oly koek, and the crisp and crumbling cruller. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick lxv. 334 Like old Amsterdam housewives' dough-nuts or oly-cooks. 1881 Harper's Mag. Mar. 533/1 His favorite city has surpassed all others in..olie koeks, and New Year cookies. 1895 Dial. Notes 1 387 In the Dutch-settled districts the word olykoeks, which Washington Irving has made classic, is used for some of the varieties [of doughnut]. 1987 T. C. Boyle World's End (1988) i. v. 50 Here he was..snow powdering his black cloak till he looked like an olykoek dusted with sugar. 2002 Washington Post (Nexis) 6 Mar. (Food section) 4 When historians talk about how the doughnut first got to this country, they mention the Dutch olykoeks or ‘oily cakes’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1795 |
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