单词 | pepper-water |
释义 | pepper-watern. 1. Biology. A mixture of finely ground black pepper and rainwater or river water, left to stand for a few days so that microscopic organisms in the water grow and multiply and can be observed under the microscope. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > processes > [noun] > dissection > examination by microscope > substance used in pepper-water1677 1677 Minute 8 Nov. in T. Birch Hist. Royal Soc. London (1757) III. 349 Experiment..of examining pepper-water with better microscopes. 1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 119 Those Animalcula not long since discovered in pepper-water by Mr. Lewenhoek of Delft in Holland. 1767 Philos. Trans. 1766 (Royal Soc.) 56 71 The seeds of mushrooms, the feathers of butterflies, pepper-water, &c. 1869 E. Haskell Trial of Ebenezer Haskell 87 The little eels in vinegar, and the animalcules in pepper water, I believe, are quarrelsome. 1959 A. Schierbeek Measuring Invisible World 33 Members were at first unable to see Leeuwenhoek's ‘little animals’ in pepper-water, so Hooke..set to work to repeat the observations. 2. A soup flavoured with pepper or other hot spices; spec. = mulligatawny n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > [noun] > other soups breec1000 mortressc1387 cretone?a1400 mortrelc1400 primrosea1450 water-kale?a1500 white broth?1537 plum broth1614 mutton broth1615 veal brotha1625 nettle-kale?c1625 China-broth1628 bisque1647 beer-broth1648 dilligrout1662 nativity broth1674 sowdyc1700 mandarin broth1701 white soup1708 soup-vermicell1724 soup-meagre1733 burgoo1743 sago-gruel1743 soup maigre1754 vermicelli soup1769 vermicelli1771 noodle soup1779 mock turtle soup1783 pepper-water1783 mulligatawny1784 powsowdie1787 macaroni soup1789 bird's nest soup1806 smiggins1825 garbure1829 pish-pash1834 laksa1846 sancocho1851 ajiaco1856 pepper soup1860 liquorice-soup1864 mock turtle1876 borsch1884 petite marmite1890 whey-brose1894 rassolnik1899 lokshen soup1900 menudo1904 hoosh1905 sinigang1912 waterzooi1915 Cullen Skink1916 swallow's nest soup1920 mizutaki1933 rasam1933 pasta fazool1935 pho1935 pasta fagioli1951 stracciatella1954 solyanka1958 tom yam1960 mannish water1968 pasta e fagioli1968 ribollita1968 tom yam kung1969 1783 W. Thomson Jrnl. 16 Nov. in Mem. Late War in Asia (1788) II. 169 Two dinners in the week of doll [sic] pepper-water. 1798 Sporting Mag. 11 308 I supped..in his house on mulagatoney or pepper-water. 1828 C. D'Oyly Tom Raw, Griffin 21 ‘Qui hi?’..has become a bantering designation of residents of Bengal, as ‘Mull,’ abbreviation of mullagatanee (pepper-water), of those at Madras. 1910 W. de la Mare Three Mulla-mulgars 245 The hot pepper-water the travellers had brewed against the cold. 1991 M. Tully No Full Stops in India (1992) ii. 67 Rasam or pepperwater is provided to wash the meal down. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1677 |
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