| 单词 | short sauce |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshort sauce short sauce n. (also short sass) U.S. regional (chiefly New England) (now historical and rare) vegetables that are short or rounded in form (such as potatoes, turnips, etc.), as distinguished from those with a more elongated shape, such as carrots, parsnips, etc. (see long sauce n.); cf. sauce n. 2a. ΚΠ 1809 A. Ritson Poet. Pict. Amer. 76 Their long sauce, and their short sauce too, About their boats are laid in view. 1837 Farmers' Reg. Jan. 543/2 Well known as a garden vegetable; but whether to call it long or short ‘sass’, I do not know. I mean the sugar beet. 1849 S. Smith Settler's New Home 76 The abundance and universal accessibility of everything that can provoke the appetite, the long sauce and short sauce, the preserves and fruits, the infinite varieties of bread. 1931 Mason City (Iowa) Globe-Gaz. 7 Mar. 3/2 Long sauce denotes beets, carrots, parsnips, etc., as distinguished from short sauce, the shorter vegetables. 1963 J. G. Horsfall in S. Rich Perspectives Biochem. Plant Pathol. 162 Sass, or garden sauce, is said to be of two kinds, long sass (as beets and carrots) and short sass (as onions, potatoes, and pumpkins). < as lemmas |
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