单词 | padkos |
释义 | padkosn. South African. Food or provisions for a journey. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > supply of food or provisions > [noun] > supply for journey stoverc1330 wayfooda1382 prog1655 viaticum1665 padkos1848 compo pack1943 baon1956 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). < n.1848 |
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