单词 | parkin |
释义 | parkinn. Originally English regional (northern) and Scottish. A kind of gingerbread made from oatmeal and treacle; (as a count noun) a piece or cake of this. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > gingerbread gingerbreada1450 dry leach1570 pepper-gingerbread1598 pepper bread1611 gingerbread nut1734 ginger cake1758 ginger nut1786 parkin1800 parliament gingerbread1809 parliament1812 parliament cake1818 parley1825 spice-nut1829 Pfefferkuchen1856 Hoosier cake1859 1800 D. Wordsworth Jrnl. 6 Nov. (1941) I. 71 I was baking bread, dinner, and parkins. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Parkin, a cake made of treacle and oat meal, commonly called a treacle-parkin. 1884 I. Banks Sybilla III. 145 Bribed by a cake of parkin from Dame Dorothy's capacious pockets. 1908 J. Kirkland Mod. Baker II. 188 Scotch Parkins belong to the same family as Parleys. 1931 A. Uttley Country Child ix. 112 It was a ‘Bun Fire’, when they ate parkin and treacle toffee, and children danced round the fire before winter swept the fields. 1991 Sun (Brisbane) 30 Oct. 25/1 Parkin... Commonly made in Yorkshire, this traditional cake has many versions, all containing oatmeal (use any breakfast rolled oats). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1800 |
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