purryn.
/ˈpʌri/, U.S. /ˈpəri/, Scottish English /ˈpʌrɪ/ Scottish. Now historical and rare.
A dish of boiled oatmeal and kale or cabbage.Earliest and chiefly in tartan-purry n. at tartan n.1 Compounds b.
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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
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > puddings > [noun] > other puddings
alker1381
moile1381
tansyc1450
tansy-cakea1475
hasty pudding1598
hodge-puddinga1616
bread pudding1623
marrowbone pudding1623
marrow-pudding1631
turmeric puddinga1704
Indian pudding1722
Westminster fool1723
pease pudding1725
pone1725
bread and butter pudding1727
custard pudding1727
purry1751
tartan-purry1751
tansy-pudding1769
vermicelli pudding1769
skimmer-cake1795
dogsbody1818
kugel1823
stickjaw1827
kheer1832
pea pudding1844
dough1848
mousseline1876
mousse1885
goose-pudding1892
payasam1892
tartan1893
malva puddinga1981
1751 W. Forbes Dominie Deposed (ed. 10) 35 Tartan, Purry [1765 Tartan-purry], Meal and Bree, Or buttry Brose.
a1776 in H. Hecht Songs from David Herd's MSS (1904) 312 Put on the pat wi' the purry.
1868 D. M. Ogilvy Willie Wabster's Wooing 17 Afore he gaed, sma' beer, wi' purry..the knave did worry.
2006 Sunday Times (Nexis) 2 Apr. 6 Gastronomically, tartan purry was a mixture of oatmeal and cabbage.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
purryadj.
/ˈpəːri/, U.S. /ˈpəri/ Characterized by or resembling purring. Hence: comfortable, contented.
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1818 Lit. Gaz. 4 Apr. 211/1 Many of our modern writers seem to imagine that..to call a tree leafy, and a bird hoppy, and a cat purry, is genuine nature.
1871 L. M. Alcott Little Men v. 71 Daisy did hear an odd crackling, and then a purry little sound as of a kettle singing.
1894 F. W. O. Ward Confessions of Poet v. 213 The pussycats around her played While daily waxing purrier.
1900 E. Glyn Visits of Elizabeth 114 Lady Doraine looked at her,..and said in her purry voice, ‘Darling Octavia’.
1921 L. Saunders Knave of Hearts in S. A. Leonard Atlantic Bk. Mod. Plays 120 I'm never so happy as when I am being flattered. It makes me feel all warm and purry.
1999 ‘Eurydice’ Satyricon USA 233 He's thirty-six, happy-looking and roly-poly, with a reassuring purry voice, wavy silver hair, and a shocked expression.
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