| 单词 | organ tea |
| 释义 | > as lemmasorgan tea 3. Pennyroyal, Mentha pulegium. In later use frequently in plural. Frequently attributive, designating various infusions and concoctions made with the herb, as organ broth, organ tea. Now English regional (chiefly south-western) and Welsh English (Pembrokeshire).In quot. 1867 with reference to ‘organ tea’. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > pennyroyal pulegeeOE organOE hillwortc1000 pulegiumOE wood-minta1300 puliol royalc1300 churchworta1400 puliol?a1425 pennyroyal1530 pudding grass1538 organy1540 organy1578 OE Names of Herbs (Corpus Cambr. 223) in H. D. Meritt Old Eng. Glosses (1945) 57 Poleium, organa. a1500 Agnus Castus (Laud) (1950) 198 (MED) Pvlogium montanum is an herbe me cleputh puliole mountayn..þis hath litel leues lich to organe. 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 30 Pulegium angustifolium sive Cervinum..Wee in English [call it] Penny-royall, Pudding grasse, and Pulioll-royall, and in the West parts, as about Exeter, Organs. 1640 Wits Recreations sig. C6v A good wife once a bed of Organs set, The pigs came in and eate up every whit. a1794 M. Palmer Dialogue Devonshire Dial. 4 I wish 'twas cry'd treason to drink ort but organ tay. 1867 W. F. Rock Jim an' Nell 6 Jist put her tooties in hot watter, an' gie'r a few strong argans arter. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Organ,..the plant Penny-royal (Mentha pulegium)... It is chopped small and put into a mess called ‘Tea-kettle broth’,..often called ‘Organ broth’. 1982 B. G. Charles Eng. Dial. South Pembrokeshire Organ, the herb penny-royal. < as lemmas |
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