| 单词 | potato peeling |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspotato peeling potato peeling n. (a) (chiefly in plural) strips of the peeled skin of potatoes; (b) the action of peeling potatoes. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparing fruit and vegetables > [noun] > peeling potatoes > potato peelings potato peeling1771 1771 Ann. Reg. 1770 i. Chron. 94/2 She had often been seen to pick up and devour with great eagerness potatoe peelings, and such things, as were thrown out for the dogs. 1875 A. Trollope Way we live Now II. c. 314 If her future husband would consent to live on potatoes, she would be quite satisfied with the potato-peelings. 1896 Daily News 7 Apr. 3/7 Yesterday's exhibition was enlivened by competitions in potato-peeling, boot-blacking, cookery, and recitation. 1933 ‘B. Ross’ Trag. of Z vii. 109 ‘Potato water’..was a vicious fermented brew home-made in secret by thirsty inmates out of potato peelings and other vegetable rinds. 1975 L. Gillen Return to Deepwater x. 178 She impatiently brushed them [sc. tears] away with the back of one hand before resuming her potato-peeling. 2004 New Yorker 29 Mar. 55/2 He falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings. < as lemmas |
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