单词 | peascod |
释义 | peascodn. Now chiefly historical. 1. The pod or legume of the pea plant; a pea pod, esp. one still containing the peas. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > pea > pea-pod, pea-shell, or pea seed peascodc1390 pease-hulla1425 pippina1450 squash1600 pea-hull1717 pea-cod1721 pea shell1744 pea pod1772 shaup1822 c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. vii. 279 Al þe pore peple pese-coddes [v.r. peosekoddes; c1400 C text peescoddes] fetten; Bake Benes in Bred þei brouhten in heor lappes. 1415 T. Hoccleve Addr. to Sir John Oldcastle l. 466 in Minor Poems (1970) i. 23 Men seyn ‘yee purpose hastily appeere, The worm for to sleen in the pesecod.’ c1450 (c1405) Mum & Sothsegger (BL Add. 41666) (1936) 904 (MED) Peris and plummes and pesecoddes grene..Were gadrid for gomes ere þay gunne ripe. 1522 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte 108 They may garlycke pyll..Or pescoddes they may shyll. 1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Pistles in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. G iiijv He can dyet with grudginge breade, and peasecoddes all alone. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. iv. 48 I remember the wooing of a peascod instead of her. View more context for this quotation 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Codders, gatherers of Peascods. 1726 B. Townsend Compl. Seedsman 5 The Rose Pea, or Crown Pea, brings a Bunch of Peasecods on the Top of the Plant, and no where else. 1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote II. iii. xv. 287 A post that will not afford victuals, is not worth a pease-cod. 1820 Lonsdale Mag. 1 512 Pray ye, nebbers, dunnet pull [peas]; I'll gi' ye a pey-scode when they're full. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 220 The pea that may be extracted from a ripe peascod. 1974 S. Dobson Geordie Dict. 46 Peskit, a peascod, peas in the pod. 1988 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 27 Nov. vii. 1/1 Accompaniments [sc. to a seventeenth-century meal] were stewed sweet potatoes with spiced apples, and buttered peasecods. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [interjection] > oaths other than religious or obscene > imprecations woeOE dahetc1290 confoundc1330 foul (also shame) fall ——c1330 sorrow on——c1330 in the wanianda1352 wildfirea1375 evil theedomc1386 a pestilence on (also upon)c1390 woe betide you (also him, her, etc.)c1390 maldathaita1400 murrainc1400 out ona1415 in the wild waning worldc1485 vengeance?a1500 in a wanion1549 with a wanion1549 woe worth1553 a plague on——a1566 with a wanion to?c1570 with a wanyand1570 bot1584 maugre1590 poxa1592 death1593 rot1594 rot on1595 cancro1597 pax1604 pize on (also upon)1605 vild1605 peascod1606 cargo1607 confusion1608 perditiona1616 (a) pest upon1632 deuce1651 stap my vitals1697 strike me blind, dumb, lucky (if, but—)1697 stop my vitals1699 split me (or my windpipe)1700 rabbit1701 consume1756 capot me!1760 nick me!1760 weary set1788 rats1816 bad cess to1859 curse1885 hanged1887 buggeration1964 1606 J. Day Ile of Guls sig. H1v Not come, a pescod on him. 1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 77 Ho now! pescods on it, Crauford Lodi Lindsay [i.e. Lodowick Lindsay, Earl of Crawford] puts me in minde of him. a1679 R. Boyle Mr. Anthony (1690) i. 7 But a Pescods on it, what if he should strike me for affronting him. Compounds C1. ΚΠ 1707 tr. M.-C. d'Aulnoy Diverting Wks. 374 You would have thought him some Draught-Horse taken from a Pease-cod Cart. C2. ΚΠ 1555 J. Heywood Two Hundred Epigrammes with Thyrde sig. B.vi Thy tales taste all of ale. Not of pescod ale, syr, my tales are not stale. peasecod-bellied adj. now historical designating a doublet with the lower part of the front stiffly quilted and projecting, fashionable about the end of the 16th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [adjective] > other cod-pieced1579 pectoral1616 peasecod-bellied1650 wrapping1787 tunical1805 shad-bellied1832 odalisque1837 peplum1866 pubic1892 sack-back1892 middy1894 sarong1913 hip-hugger1932 bloused1935 snake hook1944 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 259 The bombasting of long, Pease-cod-Bellied Doublets..was sure invented in emulation of the Grobian or All-paunch Family. 1846 F. W. Fairholt Costume in Eng. 263 The long-breasted doublets..were carried down to a long peak in front, from whence they obtained the name of ‘peascod-bellied’ doublets. 1990 Kitchen July–Aug. (Suppl.) 10/2 Men wore jerkins and ‘peascodbellied’ doublets, while women's farthingales also required capacious storage. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] > small vessel > small boat nacelle1483 cockle boata1625 peasecod-boat1657 boatie1788 monkey boat1813 dinky1849 cockle1857 sea-boat1909 1657 W. Davenant First Days Entertainment at Rutland-house 51 Step into one of your pescod-boats; whose tilts are not so sumptuous as the roofs of gundaloes. peasecod breastplate n. Armour historical a breastplate shaped like the front of a peasecod-bellied doublet. ΚΠ 1934 G. C. Stone Gloss. Arms & Armor 491/2 Peascod breastplate, a form of breastplate worn in the latter part of the 16th century, the lower part of which projected outward and downward like the civilian doublet of the period. peasecod cuirass n. Armour historical a cuirass shaped like a peasecod-bellied doublet. ΚΠ 1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 693/1 About 1550 the breast-piece of the cuirass was characterized by a central ridge..having near its centre a projecting point; this projection, somewhat later, was brought lower down, and eventually the profile of the plate..assumed the singular form which led to this fashion of the cuirass being distinguished as the ‘peascod cuirass’. peasecod doublet n. historical a peasecod-bellied doublet. ΚΠ 1868 Ladies' Repository Nov. 371/2 Our rude ancestors in the peascod doublets and trunk hose and our rugged ancestress in the wheel ruff and farthingale. 1909 C. Ffoulkes Armour & Weapons vi. 97 The breastplate is usually short and projects downwards at the lower portion after the fashion of the ‘peascod’ doublet of civilian war. 1958 V. A. LaMar Eng. Dress in Age of Shakespeare 35 His short cloak has a contrasting lining, and he wears a peasecod doublet and Venetians. ΚΠ 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole iii. xiii. 576 The red Pescod plum is a reasonable good plum. 1704 Dict. Rusticum at Plum-tree The Peascod-plum, whereof there is the red, white, and green, all long, late ripe, waterish, the red the best, and green the biggest. peasecod time n. now archaic and historical the season for peas. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > [noun] > pea-gathering > pea-gathering season peasecod time1557 1557 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husb. (1878) Nov. xxxiv Thencrease of one gallonde..shall pleasure thy household, ere peskod time come. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. iv. 387 I haue knowne thee these twentie nine yeeres, come pease-cod [1623 Pescod] time . View more context for this quotation ?1740 Lady's Fall (single sheet) To the Tune of, In Pescod time. 1959 Shakespeare Q. 10 518 ‘Peasecod time is wooing time’ goes the old saying. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > other shrubs > [noun] moorworteOE bean-trefoil1551 Osyris1562 bladder-nut1578 anagre1608 peasecod tree1611 firebush1639 Colutea1664 savin1697 houseleek-tree1732 Volkameria1753 Andromeda1760 bladder-senna1785 fringe-myrtle1866 thyrse-flower1866 eranthemum1882 nitre bush1884 ilima1888 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Anagyre, the plant called Beane Trifolie, or Pescod tree. 1759 J. Justice Brit. Gardener's Cal. 386 The Laburnum or Pease-cod Tree..their flowers are produced in May in very long yellow coloured spikes, which are succeeded by long cods like Pease, which include their seeds. 1896 Garden Work No. cxvi. 136/3 Pease Cods is an old and perfectly legitimate term for Pea Pods. Up to the beginning of the eighteenth century the Laburnum was called the Pease Cod Tree. Lord Haddington employed it in 1723. ΚΠ c1475 MS Sloane 4 in Notes & Queries (1864) 2 July 4 (MED) Take ye tayll of ye rede worme and putt yt on the hoke..or els a note worme or a piscod worme. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1390 |
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