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单词 blue mould
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blue mouldn.

Brit. /ˌbluː ˈməʊld/, U.S. /ˌblu ˈmoʊld/
Forms: see blue adj. and n. and mould n.4
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: blue adj., mould n.4
Etymology: < blue adj. + mould n.4
1. A bluish mould or mould-like growth; esp. one consisting of any ascomycete fungus of the genus Penicillium, found in blue cheeses and rotting fruit. Also: the fungus itself.
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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > cheese > [noun] > mould on cheese
blue mould1546
cheese mould1794
fade1884
the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > mouldy or musty condition > mould
moulda1400
vinny1538
blue mould1546
1546 S. Gardiner Detection Deuils Sophistrie f. ixv Do we not se (saith the deuyll) the sacrament of thaulter that they call god their ydol, (o blasphemous tongue) sometyme eaten of a mouse, sometyme waxe grene moulde, redde moulde, and blue mould?
1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 28 Blew mould and Mushromes.
1710 D. Hilman Tusser Redivivus Apr. 15 The blew Mould is occasion'd from Moisture, and Cheeses touching one another.
1788 R. Briggs Eng. Art Cookery i. 19 Cheshire cheese is esteemed the best when old and a fine blue mould, the coat of a fine smoothness, and the cheese feels firm.
1812 W. Stevenson Gen. View Agric. Dorset iv. 384 Some of the skim-milk-cheese..is streaked with a kind of blue mould, and Mr. Ottan says, this blue cheese is made by breaking and sprinkling the curds with flour after they have been pressed.
1863 W. M. Thackeray in Cornhill Mag. Jan. 129 Carps..with great humps of blue mould on their old backs.
1910 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 19 Nov. 24/2 Blue mould..was found to be the organism responsible for much of the decay of oranges and lemons.
1948 Good Housek. Cookery Bk. 383 Danish Blue, a soft white cheese with a blue mould veining, made in Denmark in imitation of Roquefort.
2007 Times (Nexis) 8 May 53 The mould that we have on Stilton is controlled blue mould that gives flavour to the cheese.
2. A downy mildew, the oomycete Peronospora tabacina, which affects tobacco crops.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > harmful or parasitic fungi > [noun] > causing disease in plants
bunt1800
Sclerotium1813
Alternaria1834
oidium1836
Septoria1836
conk1851
Rhizopus1854
snow-mould1855
vine-mildew1855
vine-fungus1857
bramble-brand1867
Microsphaera1871
wood-fungus1876
sphacelia1879
blue mould1882
orange fungus1882
cluster-cup1883
hop-mildew1883
powdery mildew1886
cladosporium1887
shot-hole fungus1897
verdet1897
wound-fungus1897
fusarium1907
verticillium1916
rhynchosporium1918
coral-spot1923
blind-seed fungus1939
sclerotinia1950
1882 C. E. Lyne Industries New S. Wales iv. 47 Tobacco cultivation is attended to with no difficulty, beyond the appearance at times of a kind of blight known as ‘blue mould’.
1931 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 158 258/2 The dreaded blue mould of tobacco—a disease which limits the profitable production of tobacco throughout Australia.
1980 P. Holliday Fungus Dis. Trop. Crops 307/1 There is no monograph on blue mould, a major disease of tobacco.
2008 Lancaster (Pa.) New Era (Nexis) 18 July a4 Blue mould has been found on several Lancaster County tobacco fields, according to the Trileaf Blue Mould hotline.

Derivatives

ˈblue-moulded adj. affected by or covered in blue mould; also figurative.With quot. 1864 cf. to be blue-moulding for.
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1812 J. Dubourdieu Statist. Surv. Antrim 165 The grain..is bruised on the barn floor, and grows blue-moulded.
1864 C. O'Dowd Men & Women 7 The Austrians, as Paddy says, are blue-moulded for want of a beatin.
1876 Daily News 3 Nov. 5/5 If this [bad weather] continues there is a danger of us all getting blue-moulded.
1915 B. J. H. Austin Domest. Sci. III. 324 Roquefort..[is] a highly flavored, blue-molded cheese, made from the milk of ewes and cured in caves.
1995 E. Toman Dancing in Limbo ii. 53 He tried to clean up the kitchen, throwing the blue-moulded bread to the chickens at the door.
ˈblue-moulding adj. covered in or gathering blue mould; frequently figurative, esp. in to be blue-moulding for (something) (colloquial, chiefly Irish English): to have waited a long time for, to be keen for or desperately in need of (the thing specified).
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1869 Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star 13 Mar. 174/2 Like the typical Irishman, they are blue-moulding for a fight.
1905 Everybody's Mag. Mar. 394/1 He is a corpse. He will be all broken up, and the pieces will be blue-moulding for burial before I can collect half of them.
1906 M. E. M. MacGregor Silver Maple xii. 264 Why, we haven't seen you since October, and I've been blue-moulding for somebody to talk to.
1999 Mirror (Nexis) 17 June 50 An Antrim team seek to prevent Down making a meal of the blue moulding memories of their 1991 and '94 All-Ireland glories.
ˈblue mouldy adj. affected by or covered with blue mould; also figurative. to be blue mouldy for (colloquial, chiefly Irish English) = to be blue-moulding for.
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1806 Spirit of Public Jrnls. 9 155 There is a coach standing at the door, full of old materials, all shrivelled and blue-mouldy.
1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. iii. 39 Stales [sc. cakes], that were all but blue-mouldy, but not quite.
1900 Daily News 3 Apr. 2/5 I was ‘blue-mouldy for want of a batin',’ as they say in certain parts of the Empire.
1900 Westm. Gaz. 31 May 2/3 Bluemouldy from Ennui.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 286 I was blue mouldy for the want of that pint.
1999 H. Leonard Love in Title i. in J. Friel & S. Sternlicht New Plays from Abbey Theatre III. 17 You must be blue mouldy with brains.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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