| 单词 | penny pie |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspenny pie penny pie n. (a) a pie costing a penny; (b) (in plural) the leaves of navelwort, Umbilicus rupestris; (also) the plant itself (cf. penny leaf n.). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Crassulaceae (stonecrop and allies) > [noun] > navelwort pennywortc1300 wall penny-grassa1400 navelwortc1450 wall penny grass1562 Venus' navel1592 hipwort1597 sea-navel1597 sea-navelwort1597 sea-pennywort1597 Venus' garden1597 cotyledon1601 kidneywort1640 Venus's navelwort1678 penny pie1707 acetabulum1727 penny leaf1782 pancakes1882 1707 J. Stevens tr. Life Estevanillo Gonzales ii, in Spanish Libertines 289 I Sold it to make Penny-pies and Pasties. a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 139 How cou'd you troke the mavis' note For ‘penny pies all-piping hot’? 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 341/1 Its orbicular concave peltate exceedingly succulent leaves, called by children Penny-pies. 1884 Times 22 Sept. 7/2 This was not a gathering..to which men could be tempted by penny pies and peep shows. 1912 J. W. White Flora of Bristol 324 C[otyledon] Umbilicus, L. Navel-wort. Penny Pies. Native; on rocks, loose stone walls, and the rubble footing of hedgebanks. Common. 1971 B. Sleigh Smell of Privet xii. 102 The round, flat leaves and tiny minarets of penny pies, growing among the ancient boulders of the walls. 1987 B. Duffy World as I found It (1990) 46 She felt..paralyzed to think of all the poor waifs she would see without even shoes or a penny pie. < as lemmas |
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