单词 | poppering |
释义 | popperingn. Now archaic and rare. A type of pear; the tree bearing this. Also poppering pear.An early-ripening and a late-ripening variety were distinguished.In quot. 1597 with allusion to the shape of the fruit, supposed to resemble the male genitals. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > pear > other types of calewey1377 honey peara1400 pome-pear1440 pome-wardena1513 choke-pear1530 muscadel1555 worry pear1562 lording1573 bon-chrétienc1575 Burgundian pear1578 king pear1585 pound pear1585 poppering1597 wood of Jerusalem1597 muscadine1598 amiot1600 bergamot1600 butter pear1600 dew-pear1600 greening1600 mollart1600 roset1600 wax pear1600 bottle pear1601 gourd-pear1601 Venerian pear1601 musk pear1611 rose pear1611 pusill1615 Christian1629 nutmeg1629 rolling pear1629 surreine1629 sweater1629 amber pear1638 Venus-pear1648 horse-pear1657 Martin1658 russet1658 rousselet1660 diego1664 frith-pear1664 maudlin1664 Messire Jean1664 primate1664 sovereign1664 spindle-pear1664 stopple-pear1664 sugar-pear1664 virgin1664 Windsor pear1664 violet-pear1666 nonsuch1674 muscat1675 burnt-cat1676 squash pear1676 rose1678 Longueville1681 maiden-heart1685 ambrette1686 vermilion1691 admiral1693 sanguinole1693 satin1693 St. Germain pear1693 pounder pear1697 vine-pear1704 amadot1706 marchioness1706 marquise1706 Margaret1707 short-neck1707 musk1708 burree1719 marquis1728 union pear1728 Doyenne pear1731 Magdalene1731 beurré1736 colmar1736 Monsieur Jean1736 muscadella1736 swan's egg1736 chaumontel1755 St Michael's pear1796 Williams1807 Marie Louise1817 seckel1817 Bartlett1828 vergaloo1828 Passe Colmar1837 glou-morceau1859 London sugar1860 snow-pear1860 Comice1866 Kieffer pear1880 sand pear1880 sandy pear1884 snowy pear1884 a1529 J. Skelton Speke Parrot in Certayne Bks. (?1545) sig. A.iii In popering grew peres, whan Parrot was an eg.] 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. i. 38 Ah Romeo that she were, ah that she were An open Et cætera, thou a poprin Peare. View more context for this quotation 1609 Euerie Woman in her Humor sig. F4 No plums, nor no parseneps, no peares, nor no Popperins. 1611 C. Tourneur Atheist's Trag. (new ed.) iv. sig. H2 The wanton Streame,..still seeming to play and dally vnder the Poppring, so long, that it has almost wash'd away the earth from the roote. 1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 72 in Sylva Pears..Summer Poppering, Sugar Pear, Lording Pear. 1676 J. Worlidge Vinetum Britannicum 169 Bings-pear, Winter-Poppering, Thorn-pear, [etc.]..are all very good Winter-pears. 1728 E. Smith Compl. Housewife (ed. 2) 171 Take poppering Pears, and thrust a picked Stick into the Head of them. 1800 Catal. Garden, Grass & Flower Seeds 12/1 Bordalou, Summer poppering, Bon Louis, Twice bearing. 1935 E. R. Eddison Mistress vii. 123 Clingstone, 'tis too great trouble: freestone, I like them not. Your grace shall give me a summer poppering. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1597 |
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