单词 | slibber-sauce |
释义 | † slibber-saucen. Obsolete. 1. A compound or concoction of a messy, repulsive, or nauseous character, used esp. for medicinal purposes. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > a medicine or medicament > nauseous or repulsive medicine slibber-sauce1527 slibber-slabber1566 nauseity1683 1527 W. Tyndale Parable Wicked Mammon in Wks. 65/1 His stomacke..longyng after slibbersause and swashe, at which a whole stomacke is readye to cast hys gorge. 1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 44 I loathe almoste to thincke on..all their slibber sawces, which bring quasinesss to the stomacke. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 423 Oftentimes also they make sliber-sauces of it selfe without any other mixture. a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) 288 [He] was but a weak spirited man,..by such slibber-sauces, and drugs as Olympias had procured to be given him. 2. A preparation of this kind used as a cosmetic. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the skin or complexion > [noun] > preparations for the skin or complexion > messy slibber-sauce1581 slibber-slabber1622 slap1960 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) iii. 137 There are no sortes of ointments and slibber sauces, which they will not proue, to make their haire of the brauest coulour. 1584 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses (ed. 3) i. sig. Eviii To colour their faces with such slibbersawces. 1627 G. Hakewill Apologie iv. ix. 386 For the face they vsed so much slibber-sauce, such dawbing and painting [etc.]. 1633 J. Hart Κλινικη i. xxii. 98 Our gentlewomen..dirt-dawb their faces with their severall slibber-sauces and paints. DerivativesΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the skin or complexion > [adjective] > which are messy slibber-sauced1601 1601 Bp. W. Barlow Def. Protestants Relig. 147 Without any slibber-sauced ceremonies. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < |
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