单词 | plum porridge |
释义 | plum porridgen. Now historical. A thick soup or porridge (porridge n. 1) containing raisins, currants, spices, etc., often flavoured with brandy, claret, or another liquor and traditionally served at Christmas.Perhaps originally containing prunes (see note at plum n. 4a). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > porridges > [noun] polentaOE papelotec1400 pottagea1500 crowdy-mowdy?a1513 drowsen1519 pease porridge?1548 plum pottage1574 sowens1582 grout1587 orgementa1590 plum porridge1591 loblolly1597 pease pottage1600 girt-brew1620 washbrew1620 lentil-porridge1622 hominy1630 porridgea1643 samp1643 nettle-pottage1659 nettle-porridge1661 crowdie1668 suppawn1670 mush1671 rockahominy1674 stirabouta1691 praiseach1698 sagamité1698 brochan1700 atole1716 burgoo1750 purry1751 fungee1789 pepper porridge1803 kasha1808 mamaliga1808 skilligalee1819 bean-porridge1821 skilly1839 sap porridge1842 corn-mush1846 oatmeal mush1850 pap1858 ugali1860 oatmeal1873 mealie-meal1880 mealie-pap1880 uji1889 sadza1899 nsima1907 putu papa1910 posho1927 putu1949 ogi1957 whey-porridge- 1591 J. Lyly Endimion v. ii. sig. H4 A great platter of plum-porrige of pleasure, wherein is stued the mutton of mistrust. 1608 T. Heywood Rape of Lucrece sig. Ev My Lords, the best plumporedge in all Rome cooles for your honours. 1651 T. Randolph Hey for Honesty ii. v. 17 And whence our greatest grief does rise, No Plumb-porredg, nor no Plumbpudding pies. 1698 W. King Journey to London 5 Prunes..they have not had enough to lay round their Plum-porridge at Christmas. 1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses v. 21 Plumb-porridge and Minc'd Pies. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker III. 261 His temper, which had been soured and shrivelled by disappointment and chagrin, is now swelled out, and smoothed like a raisin in plum-porridge. 1808 W. Scott Marmion vi. Introd. 302 There the huge sirloin reeked; hard by Plumb-porridge stood, and Christmas pye. 1831 T. L. Peacock Crotchet Castle xviii. 277 The boar's head..led the van. Then came tureens of plum-porridge; then a series of turkeys. 1884 W. Besant Dorothy Forster II. xiv. 46 After the lobscouse they had plum-porridge and shrid-pies, with as much strong ale as they could carry, and more. 1901 Daily Chron. 25 Dec. 5/1 The plum-pudding may be said..to have supplanted entirely the older dish of plum-porridge, with its congeners the December and Christmas pies. 1973 C. A. Wilson Food & Drink in Brit. vi. 228 Plum porridge, like the Christmas puddings of more recent times, was usually laced with liquor such as claret and sack. 2002 Times Higher Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 20 Dec. 18 This then lost its meat content and evolved into a plum porridge, laced with claret or brandy, mixed some months before, then stored. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1591 |
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