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单词 pummy
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pummyn.

Brit. /ˈpʌmi/, U.S. /ˈpəmi/
Forms: 1700s– pummy; English regional (chiefly southern) 1800s– pommey, 1800s– pommy, 1800s– pummey, 1800s– pumy; U.S. regional 1900s– pommey.
Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: pomace n.
Etymology: Apparently an inferred singular of pomace n. (compare forms at that entry).Perhaps compare French †pommé cider (c1330 in Middle French as pommey ; < pomme pome n.1 + -y suffix5), French regional (Angevin) pommée apple jam (1656 as pomeye in sense ‘apple compote’; < pomme pome n.1 + -ée -y suffix5).
1.
a. Chiefly English regional (southern and East Anglian) and Newfoundland. = pomace n. 2b. Now rare.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > types of softness > [noun] > pulpiness or mushiness > pulp
pomace1555
mash1598
mummy1601
pulp1633
pomate1699
pulpament1699
pummy1754
mush1824
pash1825
smush1825
1754 P. Bradshaw Family Jewel (ed. 7) 7 Wash your currants, put them into your Pan, and mash them; then put in a little Water and boil them to a Pummy.
1844 W. Barnes Poems Rural Life in Dorset Dial. 78 Gi'en vo'ke a drashen, An breaken buones, an' beaten heads to pummy.
1850 J. Weir Long Powers i. 181 Before his friends could come to his relief, I had beaten him to a pummy.
1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxi. 5 I shall be churned into a pummy.
1903 H. Gosselin in Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 575/2 [Hertfordshire] We must dig deeper there, sir, it's all of a pummy like.
1924 G. A. England Vikings of Ice 225 The [seal] skins now began ‘running to oil’, and the fat ‘goin' to pummy’, which is to say, getting very ripe and degenerating to a nauseous mess.
b. North American regional. = pomace n. 2a.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > syrup > [noun] > in sugar manufacture > juice of sugar cane > dregs or refuse of
trash1707
dunder1774
cane trash1790
sugar-wash1812
bagasse1833
megass1833
dabs1858
pummy1877
1877 H. Ruede Let. 23 Sept. in Sod-house Days (1937) 152 He was very much amused to hear the folks talk about ‘them molasses’ and being told to ‘take away them pummies’ (pomace—crushed cane.)
1938 C. H. Matschat Suwannee River 133Pummy’—cane pulp—fell from the other side of the mill.
1980 R. Anderson in Dict. Newfoundland Eng. (1982) 395/2 Worthless potatoes are sometimes used to make pummy, ‘mashed up’ as one stage in preparing starch.
1993 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. IV. 257/2 I came upon his use of pommey, which he defines as ‘mashed sugar cane’ produced in the process of making cane syrup.
2. = pomace n. 3. Now English regional (west midlands and south-western) and North American regional.
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the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > cider-making > [noun] > apple pulp
pomace1572
apple pomace1664
cider-pressings1664
must1670
cider-marc1676
pug1676
pouse1704
pressing1707
apple cheese1708
pommagec1769
pummy1843
1843 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 4 383 The pommey (that is, the pulp after it has been pressed) will generally contain a large number of entire seeds.
1865 J. Buckman Sci. & Pract. in Farm Cultiv. vii. l. 348 In Dorsetshire the ground pulp or ‘pummy’ is usually put upon a flat stage between layers of straw.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Pummy, ground apples, in process of cider making. Always so called before the juice is expressed; and the same word is applied to the refuse when pressed dry; this latter is, however, sometimes called cider-muck.
1953 Mansfield (Ohio) News-Jrnl. 11 Oct. 20/4 The cider is squeezed through a muslin screen with the trays of remaining pummies (pulp and peel) removed by hand.
1974 W. Leeds Herefordshire Speech 89 Pommey, pulp. In cider-making = apples crushed to a pulp for the extraction of the juice.
1996 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 20 Sept. 17 Her job was to spread the ‘pummy’ as it came from the choppers, leveling it so the presscloths could be filled.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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