spoon-meatn.

Etymology: < spoon n. + meat n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈspoon-meat.

a. Soft or liquid food for taking with a spoon, esp. by infants or invalids.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > consistency of food > [noun] > suppable food

supeta1382

suppinga1425

supping meat1440

spoon-meat1555

liquid1708

1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. x. 225 Thei are ware, not to spill any spone meate.

1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 42^v No spoone meate, no bellifull, labourers thinke.

1639 O. Wood Alphabet. Bk. Physicall Secrets 195 Eate neither Milke, Broath, nor spoone meat, salt meats, nor fried.

1673 Gentlewomans Compan. 71 Do not venture to eat Spoon-meat so hot, that the tears stand in your eyes.

1750 Rise Eng. Stage iii. 495 To shew that he was a Child, they fed him on the Stage with Spoon-Meat.

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. xi. 27/1 Did he, at one time, wear drivel-bibs, and live on spoon-meat?

1884 T. H. Huxley in L. Huxley Life & Lett. T. H. Huxley (1900) II. 70 A fortnight's spoon-meat reduced me to inanity.

b. With a and plural. A kind of this.

ΚΠ

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Ioncade, a certaine spoone-meat made of creame, Rose-water, and Sugar.

1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician vi. 217 To refresh the Patient with Broths and comfortable Spoon-meats.

1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea viii. 106 The best..that the poor Sick can get here, are Culinary Vegetables and Spoon-Meats.

1783 Med. Communications 1 238 It allowed spoon-meats to pass.

c. figurative and transferred.

ΚΠ

1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. B2 Martin cald his arguments spoon meat in his protest.

1608 T. Dekker Belman of London sig. I1 The fift [reads first] Iump, is called Spoone-meate, and that is a messe of knauerie serued in about Supper time. [This deception is described in sigs I1-I1^v.]

a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry IV lxxxviii, in Poems (1878) IV. 23 Aldermen are still Caudle and Custard, Spoon~meat to the Mouth Of present Power.

1879 ‘G. Eliot’ Theophrastus Such v. 113 All human achievement must be wrought down to this spoon-meat.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	spoon-meat
释义	spoon-meatn. Etymology: < spoon n. + meat n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈspoon-meat. a. Soft or liquid food for taking with a spoon, esp. by infants or invalids. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consistency of food > [noun] > suppable food supeta1382 suppinga1425 supping meat1440 spoon-meat1555 liquid1708 1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. x. 225 Thei are ware, not to spill any spone meate. 1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 42^v No spoone meate, no bellifull, labourers thinke. 1639 O. Wood Alphabet. Bk. Physicall Secrets 195 Eate neither Milke, Broath, nor spoone meat, salt meats, nor fried. 1673 Gentlewomans Compan. 71 Do not venture to eat Spoon-meat so hot, that the tears stand in your eyes. 1750 Rise Eng. Stage iii. 495 To shew that he was a Child, they fed him on the Stage with Spoon-Meat. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. xi. 27/1 Did he, at one time, wear drivel-bibs, and live on spoon-meat? 1884 T. H. Huxley in L. Huxley Life & Lett. T. H. Huxley (1900) II. 70 A fortnight's spoon-meat reduced me to inanity. b. With a and plural. A kind of this. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Ioncade, a certaine spoone-meat made of creame, Rose-water, and Sugar. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician vi. 217 To refresh the Patient with Broths and comfortable Spoon-meats. 1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea viii. 106 The best..that the poor Sick can get here, are Culinary Vegetables and Spoon-Meats. 1783 Med. Communications 1 238 It allowed spoon-meats to pass. c. figurative and transferred. ΚΠ 1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. B2 Martin cald his arguments spoon meat in his protest. 1608 T. Dekker Belman of London sig. I1 The fift [reads first] Iump, is called Spoone-meate, and that is a messe of knauerie serued in about Supper time. [This deception is described in sigs I1-I1^v.] a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry IV lxxxviii, in Poems (1878) IV. 23 Aldermen are still Caudle and Custard, Spoon~meat to the Mouth Of present Power. 1879 ‘G. Eliot’ Theophrastus Such v. 113 All human achievement must be wrought down to this spoon-meat. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1555
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