saladn.

Brit.

/ˈsaləd/, U.S.

/ˈsæləd/

Forms: α. Middle English selad, Middle English–1600s salade, 1500s–1600s sallade, 1600s–1800s sallad, 1600s– salad; β. 1500s sal(l)ett(e, -otte, -ite, 1500s–1600s salat, 1500s–1800s (now dialect or archaic) sallet, 1600s sallat(e.

Etymology: < Old French salade (14th cent.), < Provençal salada = Old Italian salata, Portuguese salada (compare Italian insalata, Spanish ensalada) < popular Latin *salāta, < *salāre (Italian, medieval Latin salare, Provençal, Spanish, Portuguese salar, French saler) to salt, < Latin sal salt. The Romanic word has been generally taken into the Germanic languages: Dutch salade (salaet in Kilian, also sla < *slade), late Middle High German salât (German salat), Swedish, Danish salat; also Russian salat.

a. A cold dish of herbs or vegetables (e.g. lettuce, endive), usually uncooked and chopped up or sliced, to which is often added sliced hard-boiled egg, cold meat, fish, etc., the whole being seasoned with salt, pepper, oil, and vinegar.For an earlier wider use see quot. 1688 at β. and cf. quot. 1687 at salading n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > prepared vegetables and dishes > [noun] > salad

saladc1390

round salad1578

acetar1623

acetary1657

green salad1675

sass1775

potato salad1796

Russian salad1846

egg salad1873

sunomono1900

salade niçoise1907

Spanish salad1911

Waldorf salad1911

gado-gado1924

Spanish sauce1928

panzanella1937

side salad1940

Caesar salad1946

Cobb salad1947

wedge salad1949

chaat1954

fattoush1955

tabbouleh1955

pico de gallo1958

Caesar1978

caprese1978

α.

1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (1905) 398 Item, for erbes for a selad j. d.

1539 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 41 Yonge men..shell eate..salades of cold herbes.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 125 This herbe..is much vsed in meates and Salades with egges.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 37 If you would make a delicate sallad of Cucumbers, boile them first, then pill from them their rind, serue them vp with oile, vinegre, and honey.

1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. i. ii. 22 Purslain..tis very sweet, and makes a good Sallad for a hot Country.

1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull in his Senses iv. 17 She turn'd away one Servant for putting too much Oil in her Sallad.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iv. ii. 30 Wholesome Herbs, which I boiled, or eat as Salades with my Bread.

1846 R. Ford Gatherings from Spain (1906) 147 The salad is the glory of every French dinner and the disgrace of most in England.

1855 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Kitchen Garden 107 The most approved autumnal salads are those mainly composed of endive.

β. c1390 Forme of Cury (1780) 41 Salat. Take persel, sawge, garlec [etc.]..waische hem clene..and myng hem wel with rawe oile, lay on vyneger and salt, and serue it forth.1550 J. Coke Deb. Heraldes Eng. & Fraunce sig. Bvi^v Oyle Olyue whiche was brought out of espayne, very good for salettes.1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxxvi. 227 A Sallet of greene herbes.1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole 468 Asparagus..whose young shootes..being boyled, are eaten with a little vinegar and butter, as a Sallet of great delight.1660 S. Pepys Diary 14 May (1970) I. 139 A sallet and two or three bones of mutton were provided for a matter of ten of us.1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 84/2 Sallet, is either Sweet Herbs, or Pickled Fruits, or Cucumbers, Samphire, Elder-Buds, Broom-Buds, &c. eaten with Roasted Meats.1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 173 Samphire..is very good in Sallets.1716 J. Addison Freeholder No. 30. ⁋5 Pudding, which, it must be confess'd, is not so elegant a Dish as Frog and Sallet.1908 A. Noyes Drake vi Sallets mixed with sugar and cinnamon.

b. figurative and allusively, as a type of something mixed (†or savoury).

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > a mixture

mingingOE

mungc1175

meddlingc1384

mellaya1400

mixture?a1425

commixtion?a1439

medley1440

brothc1515

mingly1545

mingle1548

maslin1574

miscellane1582

commixture1590

flaumpaump1593

salad1603

miscellany1609

common1619

cento1625

misturea1626

mixtil1654

concrete1656

contemperation1664

ragout1672

crasis1677

alloy1707

mixtible1750

galimatias1762

misc.1851

syllabub1859

mixtry1862

cocktail1868

blend1883

admix1908

mix-up1918

mix1959

meld1973

katogo1994

1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 444 One said there was no sallets in the lines to make them sauory.

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iv. v. 17 She was the sweete Margerom of the sallet, or rather the hearbe of grace.

a1635 R. Corbet Iter Boreale in Certain Elegant Poems (1647) 16 The Puritan, the Anabaptist, Brownist, Like a grand sallet.

1774 O. Goldsmith Retaliation 11 Our Garrick's a sallad, for in him we see Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree.

1831 T. P. Thompson in Westm. Rev. Jan. 246 How the united robbers, after a sallad of murder and Te Deums, of conflagrations and general fasts, succeeded in dividing Poland.

1856 F. Saunders (title) Salad for the Social.

1893 Nation (N.Y.) 57 133/1 Close at hand the building is an entertaining salad of styles.

a. Any vegetable or herb used in a raw state as an article of food, esp. in the kind of dish described in sense 1; = salad-herb n. at Compounds 2. See also corn-salad n.

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the world > plants > wild and cultivated plants > food plant or vegetable > [noun] > used raw or for salads

saladc1460

salad-herb1538

salad-root1573

salading1664

mekin1688

the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > [noun] > salad vegetables

saladc1460

salad-herb1538

salad-root1573

salading1664

salad greens1847

c1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 97 Beware of saladis, grene metis, and of frutes rawe.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 52^v And your potte hearbes and sallettes in an other place.

1598 Floure & Leafe in T. Speght Wks. G. Chaucer f. 367^v/2 They yede about gadering Pleasaunt salades which they made hem eat.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. ii. i. 91 That all rawe hearbs and sallets breed Melancholy blood, except Buglosse and Lettice.

1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) ii. §1 I could digest a Sallad gathered in a Church-yard, as well as in a Garden.

1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 395 They are very temperate in their diet, eating a great deal of sallet and but little flesh.

1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 304 To pick A cheap but wholesome sallad from the brook.

1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood iii. 12 The Cloisterham children grow small salad in the dust of abbots and abbesses, and make dirt-pies of nuns and friars.

1887 C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 273 Watercress (Nasturtium officinale..). The well-known salad.

b. spec. (dialect and U.S.) Lettuce.

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1838 Public Ledger (Philadelphia) July Salad goes to head by the middle of May, on Vancouver's Island.

1847 W. Darlington Agric. Bot. 100 Those forms known as Curled and Head Salad.

1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness Sallit..the lettuce plant before preparation for the table.

†c. in proverbial or allusive use, esp. in to pick a salad, (a) to be engaged in some trivial occupation, (b) to make a selection (out of). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > be idle or unoccupied [verb (intransitive)] > potter or waste time in trifling activity

trifle?a1400

loiterc1400

tiffc1440

tifflec1440

to pick a salad1520

to play the wanton1529

fiddle1530

dauntc1540

piddle1545

dally?1548

pittlea1568

pingle1574

puddle1591

to thrum caps1594

maginate1623

meecha1625

pudder1624

dabble1631

fanfreluche1653

dawdlea1656

taigle17..

niff-naff1728

tiddle1747

peddle1755

gammer1788

quiddle1789

muddle1791

browse1803

niddle1808

poke1811

fal-lal1818

potter1824

footer1825

putter1827

shaffle1828

to fool about1838

mike1838

piffle1847

mess1853

to muck about1856

tinker1856

bohemianize1857

to fool around1860

frivol1866

june1869

muss1876

to muddle about (also around)1877

slummock1877

dicker1888

moodle1893

to fart about1899

to fart about (or around)1899

plouter1899

futz1907

monkey1916

to arse around1919

to play around1929

to fuck around1931

tool1932

frig1933

boondoggle1935

to muck around1935

to screw around1935

to bugger about1937

to bugger around1939

to piss about1943

to dick around1948

to jerk around1953

fart-arse1954

to fanny around1969

slop1973

dork1982

to twat around (or about)1992

to dick about1996

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > be unimportant [verb (intransitive)] > behave in unimportant way

to pick a salad1520

niggle1599

to play tiddlywinks1919

the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > make types of choice [verb (intransitive)] > make a selection

to pick a salad1520

pick1824

select1833

1520 R. Whittington Uulgaria sig. A.iv^v He that laboureth no thyng wholly but catcheth a patche of euery thynge is mete to pyke a salet.

1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. v^v Angisus..vsurpynge the hygh stewardshyp of ffraunce, at layser made the kynge to go pyke a salett.

1568 in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1709) lii. 525 As for your new Doctors, it is good to pick a Sallet out of them, now and then.

1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late i. 56* If not, like an vnthankefull Hackney-man shee meant to tourne him into the bare leas, and set him as a tyrde iade to picke a sallet.

1603 tr. Batchelars Banquet iii. sig. C1 I would haue turnd the queane out of doors to picke a Sallet.

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iv. v. 14 'Twas a good Lady. Wee may picke a thousand sallets ere wee light on such another hearbe.

Compounds

C1. General attributive. Also salad oil n.

salad bowl n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > table-vessels > dish or plate > cup, bowl, or basin > salad-bowl

salad-dish1688

salad bowl1773

1773 J. Wedgwood Let. 21 Nov. in Sel. Lett. (1965) 156 Sa[lad] Bowles, and boats.

1840 R. H. Barham Spectre of Tappington in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 24 Curled like a head of celery in a salad-bowl.

1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset I. xxxii. 267 A bitter leaf will now and then make its way into your salad-bowl.

1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 22 Oct. 7/7 (advt.) China salad bowls—hand painted.

1980 Berkeley Graduate Oct. 5/2 Even in California, the salad bowl of the nation, thousands of people were hungry.

salad-cream n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > additive > sauce or dressing > [noun] > salad dressing

salad-dressing1836

dressing1853

salad-cream1858

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Salad-cream, a prepared dressing for salads.

1976 D. Clark Dread & Water ii. 26 A woman..was shaking salad cream from a bottle.

salad-dish n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > table-vessels > dish or plate > cup, bowl, or basin > salad-bowl

salad-dish1688

salad bowl1773

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) 4/1 A sallett dish.

1710 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 26 Oct. (1948) I. 72 And so you only want some salad dishes, and plates.

salad-dressing n.

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the world > food and drink > food > additive > sauce or dressing > [noun] > salad dressing

salad-dressing1836

dressing1853

salad-cream1858

1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 244 An unrivalled compounder of salad-dressing.

salad-eater n.

ΚΠ

1947 W. H. Auden Age of Anxiety (1948) iii. 70 The parlour cars and Pullmans are packed also With scented assassins, salad-eaters Who murder on milk.

salad fork n.

ΚΠ

1917 Harrods Gen. Catal. 892/2 Glass salad forks... Prices on application.

1978 Detroit Free Press 5 Mar. a17/5 (advt.) Stainless tableware..setting includes salad fork, dinner fork, [etc.].

salad leaf n.

ΚΠ

1927 J. Joyce Pomes Penyeach The still garden where a child Gathers the simple salad leaves.

salad-plate n.

ΚΠ

1881 C. C. Harrison Woman's Handiwork Mod. Homes iii. 219 The little salad-plates were silver-gilt.

1976 G. McDonald Confess, Fletch (1977) xxxii. 150 Sylvia entered with salad plates. The salad consisted of..cold, canned peas.

salad-root n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > wild and cultivated plants > food plant or vegetable > [noun] > used raw or for salads

saladc1460

salad-herb1538

salad-root1573

salading1664

mekin1688

the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > [noun] > salad vegetables

saladc1460

salad-herb1538

salad-root1573

salading1664

salad greens1847

1573 in J. Nichols Progresses Queen Elizabeth (1823) I. 370 Item, for sallet roots 0 2.

salad-spoon n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > serving food > [noun] > utensils for serving > salad servers

salad-spoon1858

server1872

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Salad-spoon, a wooden, ivory, or other spoon, for mixing and serving salad.

C2.

salad bar n. chiefly U.S. a servery from which a salad may be obtained.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating place > [noun] > eating-house or restaurant > snack bar

buffet1792

breakfast-stall1853

fish-bar1887

stand-up1897

pizzeria1901

luncheonette1924

snack bar1930

snackette1935

snackery1936

pizza bar1956

Wimpy Bar1959

Wimpy1966

salad bar1976

1976 Amer. Speech 1974 49 116 Salad bar, counter in many restaurants, with ingredients from which the diner can make his own salad.

1978 Times 23 Apr. 12/6 The..assistant manageress..led me to the salad bar with its two kinds of salad, four kinds of bread and four kinds of salad dressing.

salad basket n. (a) a wire basket in which superfluous moisture is shaken from the constituents of a salad after washing; (b) slang [translating French panier à salade] , a police van, ‘Black Maria’.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > salad drier

salad basket1906

society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > prison or police van

prison van1829

Black Maria1835

salad basket1906

1906 Mrs. Beeton's Bk. Househ. Managem. (rev. ed.) xxxv. 1092 When a salad basket is not available, the materials should be well drained and shaken in a colander.

1962 P. Brickhill Deadline vi. 83 A row of large ‘Black Marias’, or, as I learned, ‘paniers à salade’ (salad baskets) as the French call them.

1966 J. Dos Passos Best Times (1968) ii. 54 The French cooks were already out..whirling the salad around in wire salad-baskets to dry it.

1975 H. McCutcheon Instrument of Vengeance iii. 52 There will be a salad basket here soon... What you call, I think, a Black Maria.

salad burnet n. the common burnet, Poterium Sanguisorba.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > agrimony or lady's mantle or burnet

agrimonyeOE

padelion?a1300

burnetc1400

sindaw1548

liverwort1566

great sanicle1578

lady's mantle1578

pimpernel1578

goose-chite1597

philanthropos1597

Poterium1597

lion's foot1611

salading-burnet1766

burnet blood-wort1776

dew-cup1799

sanguisorb1846

salad burnet1854

1854 S. Thomson Wanderings among Wild Flowers iii. 239 The Poterium sanguisorba,..derives its English name of salad-burnet from its being used as a salad.

† salad clover n. Obsolete Melilotus cærulea.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > sweet trefoil

salad clover1562

old sow1855

sweet trefoil1859

sweet clover1867

1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 42 I know no Englishe name for it [sc. Lotus urbana]: howbeit, it may be named..gardin clauer or four clauer, or sallat clauer.

salad days n. days of youthful inexperience; also attributive in singular.

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the world > life > source or principle of life > age > youth > [noun]

youthc897

youngheada1300

youngthc1330

juvent1377

juventy1377

first youtha1387

youthheada1400

joyfnesc1400

junessec1430

young daysa1464

juventudec1470

younga1475

youngness?1505

flower?1507

juventute1541

prime tide1549

spring1553

April1583

springtime1583

nonage1584

prime1584

flowering youth1586

primrose1590

greenc1595

dancing-days1599

primrose-time1606

leaping timea1616

salad daysa1616

minority1632

juvenency1656

coltagec1720

youdith1723

veal-bones1785

whelphood1847

colthood1865

a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) i. v. 72 My Sallad dayes, When I was greene in iudgement, cold in blood.

1865 Cornhill Mag. May 554 Being in want of a horse at the time—it was in my salad days, reader—I looked through the advertisements in The Times, and noticed one which at any rate promised well.

1882 C. Pebody Eng. Journalism xii. 83 All the newspapers that flourished in the green and sallet days of the Press have been replaced by more adventurous rivals.

a1953 D. Thomas Under Milk Wood (1954) 60 She whispers to her salad-day deep self.

1963 Times 8 Mar. 15/4 This was a young concerto for a young pianist—it was, we have tried to suggest, not such a salad-day reading.

salad furniture n. (see furniture n. 6b).

salad-herb n. ? Obsolete = sense 2.

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the world > plants > wild and cultivated plants > food plant or vegetable > [noun] > used raw or for salads

saladc1460

salad-herb1538

salad-root1573

salading1664

mekin1688

the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > [noun] > salad vegetables

saladc1460

salad-herb1538

salad-root1573

salading1664

salad greens1847

1538 T. Elyot Dict. Acetarium,..a gardeyn, where salate herbes do growe.

1588 T. Kyd tr. T. Tasso Housholders Philos. f. 3^v An other Garden full of all sorts of sallet hearbes.

1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole 468 Asparagus is a principall and delectable Sallet herbe..boyled.

1767 J. Abercrombie Every Man his Own Gardener (1803) 665/2 Sallad Herbs:..the principal..are lettuce, endive, cellery, and small herbs, such as cresses, mustard, radish, &c.

1796 C. Marshall Introd. Knowl. & Pract. Gardening xvi. 328 Burnet is a warm perennial sallad herb, propagated in spring or autumn.

salad rocket n. Eruca sativa (Miller Plant-n. 1884).

salad servers n. a large spoon and fork for serving salads.

ΚΠ

1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 148/2 Salad Servers, boxwood..set 1/1.

1978 ‘M. Delving’ No Sign of Life v. 94 Betsy is a carver... She carves the handles of salad servers and jugs for me.

† salad sorrel n. Obsolete ? Oxalis Acetosella.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Oxalidaceae (wood-sorrel and allies) > [noun]

sorrel de boysa1400

wood-soura1400

hallelujahc1425

cuckoobread1526

cuckoo's meat1526

wood sorrel1526

stubwort1541

sour trefoil1578

stobwort1597

salad sorrel1611

French sorrel1633

three-leaved grass1634

stab-wort1640

lujula1651

oxalis1706

goat's foot1787

sour grass1866

sour-sop1885

soursob1907

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Salette Petite salette, Pettie Sorrell, sallet Sorrell.

Draft additions July 2011

salad greens n. leafy vegetables of the sort commonly used in salad.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > [noun] > salad vegetables

saladc1460

salad-herb1538

salad-root1573

salading1664

salad greens1847

1847 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 2 Feb. Minerva introduced the culture of olives and (we must necessarily suppose) that of all sorts of salad-greens; for what should so wise a deity want with oil but to put it in a learned herbivorous composition of lettuce, endive, or water-cress?

1891 Manch. Weekly Times 2 Oct. 7/2 Some salad greens, it is true, are raised for the table at this season, but no artificial means can give to any salad leaf the exact flavour of those that come up from the moist, cool earth of early spring.

1937 Amer. Home Apr. 55/2 (advt.) Pour into a damp mold and chill until set. Unmold on bed of salad greens.

2002 T. Shimoda Fourth Treasure (2003) 181 On the table was ziti pasta.., and mixed salad greens with balsamic vinaigrette.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	salad
释义	saladn. Brit. /ˈsaləd/, U.S. /ˈsæləd/ Forms: α. Middle English selad, Middle English–1600s salade, 1500s–1600s sallade, 1600s–1800s sallad, 1600s– salad; β. 1500s sal(l)ett(e, -otte, -ite, 1500s–1600s salat, 1500s–1800s (now dialect or archaic) sallet, 1600s sallat(e. Etymology: < Old French salade (14th cent.), < Provençal salada = Old Italian salata, Portuguese salada (compare Italian insalata, Spanish ensalada) < popular Latin salāta, < salāre (Italian, medieval Latin salare, Provençal, Spanish, Portuguese salar, French saler) to salt, < Latin sal salt. The Romanic word has been generally taken into the Germanic languages: Dutch salade (salaet in Kilian, also sla < slade), late Middle High German salât* (German salat), Swedish, Danish salat; also Russian salat. 1. a. A cold dish of herbs or vegetables (e.g. lettuce, endive), usually uncooked and chopped up or sliced, to which is often added sliced hard-boiled egg, cold meat, fish, etc., the whole being seasoned with salt, pepper, oil, and vinegar.For an earlier wider use see quot. 1688 at β. and cf. quot. 1687 at salading n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > prepared vegetables and dishes > [noun] > salad saladc1390 round salad1578 acetar1623 acetary1657 green salad1675 sass1775 potato salad1796 Russian salad1846 egg salad1873 sunomono1900 salade niçoise1907 Spanish salad1911 Waldorf salad1911 gado-gado1924 Spanish sauce1928 panzanella1937 side salad1940 Caesar salad1946 Cobb salad1947 wedge salad1949 chaat1954 fattoush1955 tabbouleh1955 pico de gallo1958 Caesar1978 caprese1978 α. 1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (1905) 398 Item, for erbes for a selad j. d. 1539 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 41 Yonge men..shell eate..salades of cold herbes. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 125 This herbe..is much vsed in meates and Salades with egges. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 37 If you would make a delicate sallad of Cucumbers, boile them first, then pill from them their rind, serue them vp with oile, vinegre, and honey. 1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. i. ii. 22 Purslain..tis very sweet, and makes a good Sallad for a hot Country. 1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull in his Senses iv. 17 She turn'd away one Servant for putting too much Oil in her Sallad. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iv. ii. 30 Wholesome Herbs, which I boiled, or eat as Salades with my Bread. 1846 R. Ford Gatherings from Spain (1906) 147 The salad is the glory of every French dinner and the disgrace of most in England. 1855 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Kitchen Garden 107 The most approved autumnal salads are those mainly composed of endive. β. c1390 Forme of Cury (1780) 41 Salat. Take persel, sawge, garlec [etc.]..waische hem clene..and myng hem wel with rawe oile, lay on vyneger and salt, and serue it forth.1550 J. Coke Deb. Heraldes Eng. & Fraunce sig. Bvi^v Oyle Olyue whiche was brought out of espayne, very good for salettes.1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxxvi. 227 A Sallet of greene herbes.1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole 468 Asparagus..whose young shootes..being boyled, are eaten with a little vinegar and butter, as a Sallet of great delight.1660 S. Pepys Diary 14 May (1970) I. 139 A sallet and two or three bones of mutton were provided for a matter of ten of us.1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 84/2 Sallet, is either Sweet Herbs, or Pickled Fruits, or Cucumbers, Samphire, Elder-Buds, Broom-Buds, &c. eaten with Roasted Meats.1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 173 Samphire..is very good in Sallets.1716 J. Addison Freeholder No. 30. ⁋5 Pudding, which, it must be confess'd, is not so elegant a Dish as Frog and Sallet.1908 A. Noyes Drake vi Sallets mixed with sugar and cinnamon. b. figurative and allusively, as a type of something mixed (†or savoury). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > a mixture mingingOE mungc1175 meddlingc1384 mellaya1400 mixture?a1425 commixtion?a1439 medley1440 brothc1515 mingly1545 mingle1548 maslin1574 miscellane1582 commixture1590 flaumpaump1593 salad1603 miscellany1609 common1619 cento1625 misturea1626 mixtil1654 concrete1656 contemperation1664 ragout1672 crasis1677 alloy1707 mixtible1750 galimatias1762 misc.1851 syllabub1859 mixtry1862 cocktail1868 blend1883 admix1908 mix-up1918 mix1959 meld1973 katogo1994 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 444 One said there was no sallets in the lines to make them sauory. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iv. v. 17 She was the sweete Margerom of the sallet, or rather the hearbe of grace. View more context for this quotation a1635 R. Corbet Iter Boreale in Certain Elegant Poems (1647) 16 The Puritan, the Anabaptist, Brownist, Like a grand sallet. 1774 O. Goldsmith Retaliation 11 Our Garrick's a sallad, for in him we see Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree. 1831 T. P. Thompson in Westm. Rev. Jan. 246 How the united robbers, after a sallad of murder and Te Deums, of conflagrations and general fasts, succeeded in dividing Poland. 1856 F. Saunders (title) Salad for the Social. 1893 Nation (N.Y.) 57 133/1 Close at hand the building is an entertaining salad of styles. 2. a. Any vegetable or herb used in a raw state as an article of food, esp. in the kind of dish described in sense 1; = salad-herb n. at Compounds 2. See also corn-salad n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > wild and cultivated plants > food plant or vegetable > [noun] > used raw or for salads saladc1460 salad-herb1538 salad-root1573 salading1664 mekin1688 the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > [noun] > salad vegetables saladc1460 salad-herb1538 salad-root1573 salading1664 salad greens1847 c1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 97 Beware of saladis, grene metis, and of frutes rawe. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 52^v And your potte hearbes and sallettes in an other place. 1598 Floure & Leafe in T. Speght Wks. G. Chaucer f. 367^v/2 They yede about gadering Pleasaunt salades which they made hem eat. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. ii. i. 91 That all rawe hearbs and sallets breed Melancholy blood, except Buglosse and Lettice. 1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) ii. §1 I could digest a Sallad gathered in a Church-yard, as well as in a Garden. View more context for this quotation 1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 395 They are very temperate in their diet, eating a great deal of sallet and but little flesh. 1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 304 To pick A cheap but wholesome sallad from the brook. 1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood iii. 12 The Cloisterham children grow small salad in the dust of abbots and abbesses, and make dirt-pies of nuns and friars. 1887 C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 273 Watercress (Nasturtium officinale..). The well-known salad. b. spec. (dialect and U.S.) Lettuce. ΚΠ 1838 Public Ledger (Philadelphia) July Salad goes to head by the middle of May, on Vancouver's Island. 1847 W. Darlington Agric. Bot. 100 Those forms known as Curled and Head Salad. 1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness Sallit..the lettuce plant before preparation for the table. †c. in proverbial or allusive use, esp. in to pick a salad, (a) to be engaged in some trivial occupation, (b) to make a selection (out of). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > be idle or unoccupied [verb (intransitive)] > potter or waste time in trifling activity trifle?a1400 loiterc1400 tiffc1440 tifflec1440 to pick a salad1520 to play the wanton1529 fiddle1530 dauntc1540 piddle1545 dally?1548 pittlea1568 pingle1574 puddle1591 to thrum caps1594 maginate1623 meecha1625 pudder1624 dabble1631 fanfreluche1653 dawdlea1656 taigle17.. niff-naff1728 tiddle1747 peddle1755 gammer1788 quiddle1789 muddle1791 browse1803 niddle1808 poke1811 fal-lal1818 potter1824 footer1825 putter1827 shaffle1828 to fool about1838 mike1838 piffle1847 mess1853 to muck about1856 tinker1856 bohemianize1857 to fool around1860 frivol1866 june1869 muss1876 to muddle about (also around)1877 slummock1877 dicker1888 moodle1893 to fart about1899 to fart about (or around)1899 plouter1899 futz1907 monkey1916 to arse around1919 to play around1929 to fuck around1931 tool1932 frig1933 boondoggle1935 to muck around1935 to screw around1935 to bugger about1937 to bugger around1939 to piss about1943 to dick around1948 to jerk around1953 fart-arse1954 to fanny around1969 slop1973 dork1982 to twat around (or about)1992 to dick about1996 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > be unimportant [verb (intransitive)] > behave in unimportant way to pick a salad1520 niggle1599 to play tiddlywinks1919 the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > make types of choice [verb (intransitive)] > make a selection to pick a salad1520 pick1824 select1833 1520 R. Whittington Uulgaria sig. A.iv^v He that laboureth no thyng wholly but catcheth a patche of euery thynge is mete to pyke a salet. 1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. v^v Angisus..vsurpynge the hygh stewardshyp of ffraunce, at layser made the kynge to go pyke a salett. 1568 in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1709) lii. 525 As for your new Doctors, it is good to pick a Sallet out of them, now and then. 1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late i. 56* If not, like an vnthankefull Hackney-man shee meant to tourne him into the bare leas, and set him as a tyrde iade to picke a sallet. 1603 tr. Batchelars Banquet iii. sig. C1 I would haue turnd the queane out of doors to picke a Sallet. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iv. v. 14 'Twas a good Lady. Wee may picke a thousand sallets ere wee light on such another hearbe. View more context for this quotation Compounds C1. General attributive. Also salad oil n. salad bowl n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > table-vessels > dish or plate > cup, bowl, or basin > salad-bowl salad-dish1688 salad bowl1773 1773 J. Wedgwood Let. 21 Nov. in Sel. Lett. (1965) 156 Sa[lad] Bowles, and boats. 1840 R. H. Barham Spectre of Tappington in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 24 Curled like a head of celery in a salad-bowl. 1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset I. xxxii. 267 A bitter leaf will now and then make its way into your salad-bowl. 1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 22 Oct. 7/7 (advt.) China salad bowls—hand painted. 1980 Berkeley Graduate Oct. 5/2 Even in California, the salad bowl of the nation, thousands of people were hungry. salad-cream n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > sauce or dressing > [noun] > salad dressing salad-dressing1836 dressing1853 salad-cream1858 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Salad-cream, a prepared dressing for salads. 1976 D. Clark Dread & Water ii. 26 A woman..was shaking salad cream from a bottle. salad-dish n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > table-vessels > dish or plate > cup, bowl, or basin > salad-bowl salad-dish1688 salad bowl1773 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) 4/1 A sallett dish. 1710 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 26 Oct. (1948) I. 72 And so you only want some salad dishes, and plates. salad-dressing n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > sauce or dressing > [noun] > salad dressing salad-dressing1836 dressing1853 salad-cream1858 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 244 An unrivalled compounder of salad-dressing. salad-eater n. ΚΠ 1947 W. H. Auden Age of Anxiety (1948) iii. 70 The parlour cars and Pullmans are packed also With scented assassins, salad-eaters Who murder on milk. salad fork n. ΚΠ 1917 Harrods Gen. Catal. 892/2 Glass salad forks... Prices on application. 1978 Detroit Free Press 5 Mar. a17/5 (advt.) Stainless tableware..setting includes salad fork, dinner fork, [etc.]. salad leaf n. ΚΠ 1927 J. Joyce Pomes Penyeach The still garden where a child Gathers the simple salad leaves. salad-plate n. ΚΠ 1881 C. C. Harrison Woman's Handiwork Mod. Homes iii. 219 The little salad-plates were silver-gilt. 1976 G. McDonald Confess, Fletch (1977) xxxii. 150 Sylvia entered with salad plates. The salad consisted of..cold, canned peas. salad-root n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > wild and cultivated plants > food plant or vegetable > [noun] > used raw or for salads saladc1460 salad-herb1538 salad-root1573 salading1664 mekin1688 the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > [noun] > salad vegetables saladc1460 salad-herb1538 salad-root1573 salading1664 salad greens1847 1573 in J. Nichols Progresses Queen Elizabeth (1823) I. 370 Item, for sallet roots 0 2. salad-spoon n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > serving food > [noun] > utensils for serving > salad servers salad-spoon1858 server1872 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Salad-spoon, a wooden, ivory, or other spoon, for mixing and serving salad. C2. salad bar n. chiefly U.S. a servery from which a salad may be obtained. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating place > [noun] > eating-house or restaurant > snack bar buffet1792 breakfast-stall1853 fish-bar1887 stand-up1897 pizzeria1901 luncheonette1924 snack bar1930 snackette1935 snackery1936 pizza bar1956 Wimpy Bar1959 Wimpy1966 salad bar1976 1976 Amer. Speech 1974 49 116 Salad bar, counter in many restaurants, with ingredients from which the diner can make his own salad. 1978 Times 23 Apr. 12/6 The..assistant manageress..led me to the salad bar with its two kinds of salad, four kinds of bread and four kinds of salad dressing. salad basket n. (a) a wire basket in which superfluous moisture is shaken from the constituents of a salad after washing; (b) slang [translating French panier à salade] , a police van, ‘Black Maria’. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > salad drier salad basket1906 society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > prison or police van prison van1829 Black Maria1835 salad basket1906 1906 Mrs. Beeton's Bk. Househ. Managem. (rev. ed.) xxxv. 1092 When a salad basket is not available, the materials should be well drained and shaken in a colander. 1962 P. Brickhill Deadline vi. 83 A row of large ‘Black Marias’, or, as I learned, ‘paniers à salade’ (salad baskets) as the French call them. 1966 J. Dos Passos Best Times (1968) ii. 54 The French cooks were already out..whirling the salad around in wire salad-baskets to dry it. 1975 H. McCutcheon Instrument of Vengeance iii. 52 There will be a salad basket here soon... What you call, I think, a Black Maria. salad burnet n. the common burnet, Poterium Sanguisorba. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > agrimony or lady's mantle or burnet agrimonyeOE padelion?a1300 burnetc1400 sindaw1548 liverwort1566 great sanicle1578 lady's mantle1578 pimpernel1578 goose-chite1597 philanthropos1597 Poterium1597 lion's foot1611 salading-burnet1766 burnet blood-wort1776 dew-cup1799 sanguisorb1846 salad burnet1854 1854 S. Thomson Wanderings among Wild Flowers iii. 239 The Poterium sanguisorba,..derives its English name of salad-burnet from its being used as a salad. † salad clover n. Obsolete Melilotus cærulea. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > sweet trefoil salad clover1562 old sow1855 sweet trefoil1859 sweet clover1867 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 42 I know no Englishe name for it [sc. Lotus urbana]: howbeit, it may be named..gardin clauer or four clauer, or sallat clauer. salad days n. days of youthful inexperience; also attributive in singular. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > youth > [noun] youthc897 youngheada1300 youngthc1330 juvent1377 juventy1377 first youtha1387 youthheada1400 joyfnesc1400 junessec1430 young daysa1464 juventudec1470 younga1475 youngness?1505 flower?1507 juventute1541 prime tide1549 spring1553 April1583 springtime1583 nonage1584 prime1584 flowering youth1586 primrose1590 greenc1595 dancing-days1599 primrose-time1606 leaping timea1616 salad daysa1616 minority1632 juvenency1656 coltagec1720 youdith1723 veal-bones1785 whelphood1847 colthood1865 a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) i. v. 72 My Sallad dayes, When I was greene in iudgement, cold in blood. View more context for this quotation 1865 Cornhill Mag. May 554 Being in want of a horse at the time—it was in my salad days, reader—I looked through the advertisements in The Times, and noticed one which at any rate promised well. 1882 C. Pebody Eng. Journalism xii. 83 All the newspapers that flourished in the green and sallet days of the Press have been replaced by more adventurous rivals. a1953 D. Thomas Under Milk Wood (1954) 60 She whispers to her salad-day deep self. 1963 Times 8 Mar. 15/4 This was a young concerto for a young pianist—it was, we have tried to suggest, not such a salad-day reading. salad furniture n. (see furniture n. 6b). salad-herb n. ? Obsolete = sense 2. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > wild and cultivated plants > food plant or vegetable > [noun] > used raw or for salads saladc1460 salad-herb1538 salad-root1573 salading1664 mekin1688 the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > [noun] > salad vegetables saladc1460 salad-herb1538 salad-root1573 salading1664 salad greens1847 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Acetarium,..a gardeyn, where salate herbes do growe. 1588 T. Kyd tr. T. Tasso Housholders Philos. f. 3^v An other Garden full of all sorts of sallet hearbes. 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole 468 Asparagus is a principall and delectable Sallet herbe..boyled. 1767 J. Abercrombie Every Man his Own Gardener (1803) 665/2 Sallad Herbs:..the principal..are lettuce, endive, cellery, and small herbs, such as cresses, mustard, radish, &c. 1796 C. Marshall Introd. Knowl. & Pract. Gardening xvi. 328 Burnet is a warm perennial sallad herb, propagated in spring or autumn. salad rocket n. Eruca sativa (Miller Plant-n. 1884). salad servers n. a large spoon and fork for serving salads. ΚΠ 1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 148/2 Salad Servers, boxwood..set 1/1. 1978 ‘M. Delving’ No Sign of Life v. 94 Betsy is a carver... She carves the handles of salad servers and jugs for me. † salad sorrel n. Obsolete ? Oxalis Acetosella. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Oxalidaceae (wood-sorrel and allies) > [noun] sorrel de boysa1400 wood-soura1400 hallelujahc1425 cuckoobread1526 cuckoo's meat1526 wood sorrel1526 stubwort1541 sour trefoil1578 stobwort1597 salad sorrel1611 French sorrel1633 three-leaved grass1634 stab-wort1640 lujula1651 oxalis1706 goat's foot1787 sour grass1866 sour-sop1885 soursob1907 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Salette Petite salette, Pettie Sorrell, sallet Sorrell. Draft additions July 2011 salad greens n. leafy vegetables of the sort commonly used in salad. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > [noun] > salad vegetables saladc1460 salad-herb1538 salad-root1573 salading1664 salad greens1847 1847 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 2 Feb. Minerva introduced the culture of olives and (we must necessarily suppose) that of all sorts of salad-greens; for what should so wise a deity want with oil but to put it in a learned herbivorous composition of lettuce, endive, or water-cress? 1891 Manch. Weekly Times 2 Oct. 7/2 Some salad greens, it is true, are raised for the table at this season, but no artificial means can give to any salad leaf the exact flavour of those that come up from the moist, cool earth of early spring. 1937 Amer. Home Apr. 55/2 (advt.) Pour into a damp mold and chill until set. Unmold on bed of salad greens. 2002 T. Shimoda Fourth Treasure (2003) 181 On the table was ziti pasta.., and mixed salad greens with balsamic vinaigrette. 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