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单词 padkos
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padkosn.

Brit. /ˈpadkɒs/, /ˈpatkɒs/, U.S. /ˈpɑdkɑs/, South African English /ˈpʌtkɒs/
Forms: 1800s padkost, 1800s pat-cop (irregular), 1800s pat-koss, 1800s– padkos, 1800s– pad-kos, 1800s– pad kos.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Dutch. Partly a borrowing from Afrikaans. Etymons: Dutch padkost; Afrikaans padkos.
Etymology: < South African Dutch padkost and its reflex Afrikaans padkos food for the journey < Dutch pad road (see path n.1) + kost food (see cost n.3).
South African.
Food or provisions for a journey.
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the world > food and drink > food > supply of food or provisions > [noun] > supply for journey
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1848 R. Gray Jrnl. 16 Dec. (1849) 95 Having got careless as to our ‘pat-cop’ as we approached home, we fared but badly, and finished our meal by a draught of not the clearest water in the world.
1850 R. Gray Jrnl. 6 Nov. (1851) 173 I was not allowed to depart without a good supply of pat-koss, and other comforts provided by the kindness of the parishioners.
1878 Cape Monthly Mag. Nov. 273 A dish of ‘sesaties’ and a couple of loaves..often formed part of the ‘padkos’.
1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 279 ‘Veld kos’ is such food as the veld will furnish; ‘Pad kos’, provisions for a journey.
1957 Cape Times 3 Apr. 9 One thing the South African Railways have always had to contend with is South Africa's habit of taking along ‘padkos’ on a journey.
1971 Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 24 Oct. 11/2 No Afrikaner ventures forth on a journey of more than a few miles without his padkos (‘food for the road’), and our new friends were seemingly equipped for a fortnight's safari.
2002 Financial Mail (Johannesburg) (Nexis) 8 Nov. (Education section) 26 One of the cars dumped its padkos trash—cold drink cans, plastic wrappers and polystyrene punnets—onto the roadside.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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