| 单词 | peppermint rock |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspeppermint rock d. Chiefly British. In early use: sugar in crystallized form, rock candy. Now more usually: a kind of hard confectionery made of boiled sugar in the form of cylindrical, usually peppermint-flavoured, sticks. Frequently in stick of rock. Also with modifying words, as Blackpool rock, peppermint rock. Also: sweets more generally, lollipops (English regional (west midlands)).Rock is now typically sold at seaside resorts, and frequently features a pattern or letters running through the length of the stick and visible at either end.almond, seaside rock: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > stick or tube wreath1562 rock1718 sugar stick1825 pipe1843 lemon platt1916 slim jim1916 seaside rock1963 the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > hard sweet rock sugar1652 rock candy1653 rock1718 hard candy1848 1718 Mrs. Mary Eales's Receipts 64 All the Rock will slip out, and fall most of it in small Pieces. 1734 Young Lady's Compan. in Cookery 96 To make Rock of Citron, Orange, Lemmon and Angelica. 1843 J. Pereira Treat. Food & Diet 120 Sugar constitutes the base of an almost innumerable variety of hard confectionery, sold under the names of Lozenges, Brilliants, Pipe, Rock, Comfits, Nonpareils. 1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago II. v. 174 Promising them rock and bullseyes. 1878 L. P. Meredith Teeth (ed. 2) 20 Biting into rock and other hard candies is certainly a very reprehensible practice. 1896 G. F. Northall Warwickshire Word-bk. 193 Rock, sweetstuff generally; lollipops. 1907 M. Johnston Jin Ko-niu 3 The daily arrival of the white-haired beadle with peppermint rock in his pocket. 1956 Times 13 Jan. 9/4 It was a stick of Blackpool rock, a yard long and four inches thick. 2007 Hull Daily Mail (Nexis) 8 Sept. 3 When people come to Bridlington they want fish and chips, a stick of rock and a ride on the Yorkshire Belle. < as lemmas |
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