单词 | relisher |
释义 | relishern. 1. A person who relishes or enjoys something.In quot. 1654 in a personification. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > [noun] > relish > one who relishes relisher1654 1654 J. Hall Of Govt. & Obed. iii. x. 313 Accustomed patience..is..the true and onely relisher of all blessings when they come. 1678 W. Battie Serm. 14 They who are S. Peter's Despisers, no Relishers of Government, will, when it lies in their way,..be S. Iude's Deposers. 1788 A. Shirrefs Poems (1790) 129 What grand advantages from reading flow None, but the happy relishers, can know! 1850 Daily News 11 Nov. 2/1 The lover of nature or the relisher of manly sports will here find matter sufficient to occupy his thoughts. 1859 Harper's Mag. Oct. 707/1 A fifty-cent volume of Wit and Humor..a book that every relisher of the Drawer will be glad to get. 1942 Musical Times 83 48/2 He is evidently no student of Gregorians, or a relisher of the music of ancient times. 1963 H. Salt Gold ii. 177 His place as an easer in life, an enjoyer, a backward relisher, bemused and entertained and wearing the narrowest Continental styles. 2006 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 4 Feb. a2 Like most people who take to Tamburlaine or to Doctor Faustus, he is a relisher of the vivid gesture. 2. Something which adds flavour or relish to food or drink; an appetizer, a refreshment. Also figurative. Cf. relish n.2 5. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [noun] > appetizer shoeing-horn1536 antepast1582 rasher1609 whet1688 appetite1693 relisher1732 whetter1755 appetizer1862 amuse-bouche1959 amuse-gueule1963 amuse1988 relish2006 1732 in S. Keimer Caribbeana (1741) I. 58 How, Ladies! will these Sauces relish with a foreign Dish of Matrimonial Ragoo? Had you not better let a plain honest Barbadian Relisher please your Taste? 1770 T. Bridges Adventures of Bank-note I. xx. 174 They had forgot buttered biscuits and anchovies, by way of relisher. 1800 J. Anderson Recreations in Agric. 3 465 The tallow [serves] for a relisher to other food in the kitchen. 1888 Ramsay's Scot. & Scotsmen in 18th C. II. 82 Salt herrings were set down as a relisher. 1950 Long Beach (Calif.) Press-Telegram 5 Jan. b5 (heading) Sandwiches ‘made’ by right relisher. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1654 |
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