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suetn. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French suet. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman suet, sywet (1356 or earlier) < su , sue , seu , syu , suy suet, fat (13th cent.), tallow (14th cent.), corresponding to Old French siu , Old French, Middle French sieu (12th cent.), Middle French, French suif ( < classical Latin sēbum tallow, suet, grease: see sebum n.) + et -et suffix1.Compare Old Occitan seu, ceu, Spanish sebo (13th cent.), Portuguese sebo (13th cent.), Italian †sevo (13th cent.), sego (17th cent.). It is uncertain whether the following shows the Middle English or the Anglo-Norman word:1377 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 46 In 4li. Swhet emp. in villa, 8d. 1. the world > food and drink > food > fat or oil > [noun] > suet the world > animals > animal body > general parts > constituent materials > [noun] > fat the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [noun] > (miscellaneous) parts of the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > body and parts of > internal organs the world > food and drink > food > fat or oil > [noun] > used in baking the world > life > the body > bodily substance > fat > [noun] a1325 Diuersa Cibaria in C. B. Hieatt & S. Butler (1985) 55 (MED) Nim þat broþ & swete of porc oþur of vþur vlehs. a1450 in T. Austin (1888) 41 Take Percely, & Swynys grece, or Sewet of a schepe. 1562 W. Turner f. 125 Bulles tallowe or gote buckes swet. 1598 J. Florio 119/1 Epipomfalo, a disease, when the caule or sewet wherein the guts are lapped falleth out of the nauill. 1615 R. Cocks 30 Dec. (1883) I. 93 Cows shewet for shipps use for chirurgion. 1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer xviii. 218 There are o'th' fire good puddings full of suit. 1712 J. Addison No. 317. ¶8 Too many Plumbs, and no Sewet. 1844 H. Stephens II. 97 The kidney is extracted from the suet. 1879 J. M. Duncan vii. 73 Remote parametritis may affect the region of the psoas muscle, or may affect the suet. 1955 F. G. Ashbrook Pref. p. v His grandfather put him to chopping and grinding meat, fat, and suet. 2012 5 Feb. 25/1 He currently has sea buckthorn blancmange on his menu, and will be bringing back Sussex pond pudding, made with beef suet and whole lemon inside. the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > family Cervidae (deer) > [noun] > body or parts of > other parts of c1425 (Vesp. B.xii) 151 Alle the bestis that beryth suet and fime ben escorches, and alle that bere grece and freyn be arracies. 1575 G. Gascoigne lxxvii. 217 I haue termed their [sc. bears] fatte, greace, & so is it to be called of all beastes which praye: and of all Deare & other fallow beasts, it is to be called Sewet. 1632 (ed. 2) iii. xiv. 176 The fat of all sorts of Deere is called Suette. 1699 B. E. Sewet, Deer's Grease. 1821 A. Mackintosh ii. i. 218 The fat of all sorts of deer is called suet, but the fat of a roe and hart is called bevy-grease. 1938 T. H. White (1939) xvi. 212 You could talk to him [sc. Master William Twyti] about os and argos, suet and grease, croteys, fewmets and fiants, but he only looked polite. 1793 T. Beddoes 109 Thus we have the suet of the croton sebiferum, the butter of the phœnix dactylifera and of the butyrum cacao. 1816 A. Rees (1819) XXXIV. at Suet F. le Compte mentions a tree in China, that bears a kind of suet or tallow. 1868 1 Nov. 249/1 The animal and vegetable fats and oils, such as grease, lard, suet, tallow, palm oil, cocoa-nut oil, vegetable suet, Japan wax, and resinous matters. 1901 R. Hutchison 250 Amongst these are the commercial preparations known as ‘Albene’,‘Nucoline’, ‘Vegsu’, or vegetable suet. 1930 C. Webb-Johnson 57 Fruit, vegetables, butter, cream, cheese, nut-butter, and nut suet. 2019 A. Gray 24/2 A vegetarian suet..is available, though it's not quite as good. Compounds1694 T. D'Urfey iv. iii. 45 And I am his Lordship's every thing; his hot Loaf and Butter, Suet-pudding, his Pancake, by the Universe. 1747 H. Glasse vii. 70 (heading) Suet-Dumplings. 1854 A. Soyer 85 Jugged Hare... Some stuffing.., made into little balls, can be added with advantage, or even a few suet balls. 1989 A. Aird 435 Bar food includes..a winter home-made broth with suet dumplings or steak barm-cakes. 2021 (Nexis) 3 Mar. Sussex pond pudding..is made of a suet pastry, filled with butter and sugar. 1912 Aug. 9 A suet ball may be suspended from a branch or under the porch for the Chickadees, Nuthatches and Downy Woodpeckers. 1915 Aug. 46/1 (advt.) We make a large variety of feeding devices. Suet Feeders, Feeding Houses, Feeding Tables. 1974 29 Nov. c15/2 Suet can be made attractive to many birds by preparing homemade suet cakes with liberal additions of millets seeds. 2012 (Nexis) 15 Jan. 1 a A downy woodpecker drills into a suet dispenser attached to Greene's mammoth bird feeder. 2015 P. J. Baicich et al. iv. 90 Novelty items like suet wreaths and suet pellets are for sale, as are the more common suet bells, all available through bird-feeding catalogs. C3. the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > glandular disorders > [noun] > disorders of kidneys > other kidney disorders 1886 J. M. Duncan (ed. 3) xxvii. 239 Whether the suet affection explains the frequent occurrence of albuminuria in parametritic cases..it is to be remembered as an important concomitant of the disease. the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [adjective] 1852 6 Mar. 425/3 A young, suet-brained sprig of an old Orange-boven house, who, it is quite probable, helped Thesiger to put the sting into his amendments. 1921 26 Aug. 199/2 Even among the most suet-brained readers of the Morning Post there are some [etc.]. 1998 31 Aug. (Metro Final ed.) 5 a/1 Wrong belief in our time is generally defined by a thought police consisting of suet-brained educators. the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > apparatus for specific foods 1795 Inventory in (1986) 22 195 1 chopping knife 2 suet choppers. 1844 C. Smith 38 My portable vegetable masher or pulverizer, or suet chopper and paste and pudding mixer and levigater. 1980 A. Hartcup ix. 175 There were also meat saws, suet choppers, beef forks, and steak beaters. the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > [noun] > types of pastry 1809 M. E. Rundell (new ed.) 146 Cut slices off a leg [of mutton] that has been under-done, and put them into a basin lined with a fine suet-crust. 1906 (rev. ed.) xxxi. 889 Suet Crust..flour..suet..baking-powder..salt..water. 2002 P. Frank iii. 47 (caption) A favourite dish was ‘cuttings pie’: three pennyworth of bits of meat and offal (‘cuttings’), with vegetables and gravy, topped with a suet crust. the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [noun] > of face 1896 ‘O. Rhoscomyl’ v. 52 The chair of Gwgan Maddox was shadowed by the suet face of the servant. 2003 (Nexis) 17 Feb. 204 We come to Jack Van Meter.., who has the suet face of a drinker and a bad case of missing morals. the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [adjective] 1834 Mar. 332 The cold-blooded suet-faced water-drinker. 1922 J. Joyce ii. viii. [Lestrygonians] 161 A pallid suetfaced young man polished his tumbler knife fork and spoon with his napkin. 2012 15 Apr. (Culture section) 22/4 Dervla Kirwan's suet-faced Sonya almost hyperventilates with happiness when she confesses she's in love with Dr Astrov. the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [adjective] 1890 22 Jan. 7/1 So we are bounced out of Croydon? Thanks to a batch of suet-headed crack-pots, this year will see the last of the merry Woodside meetings. 1937 E. Pound 10 Mar. (1971) 291 Make it clear..that 200 words per subject is all that wildcat editing can get over on the suet-headed Brits. 2007 U. K. Le Guin 191 No, no, no. That suet-headed Falli has got something mixed up. I'll go get this straight right now. the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > puddings > [noun] > suet puddings 1694 T. D'Urfey iv. iii. 45 And I am his Lordship's every thing; his hot Loaf and Butter, Suet-pudding, his Pancake, by the Universe. a1756 E. Haywood (1771) 196 A Suet Pudding, Take half a pound of fine beef suet, [etc.]. 1906 B. Harraden xi. 213 Big suet pudding with treacle. 2005 29 Apr. i. 27/3 In my north Bucks childhood, a rolled-up boiled suet pudding with currants in it was a bug in a bolster. Derivatives the world > food and drink > food > fat or oil > [adjective] > full of suet > of nature of suet 1662 tr. F. Plater et al. (new ed.) 574/1 We take out the Membrane which containeth that thick, Suet-like or pap-like, or honey like Matter, from whence the tumors are named. 1799 H. Clutterbuck 20 An ulcer..covered with a white suet-like slough. 1994 10 Dec. (Weekend section) 40/2 Dry and dull in taste with a strong suet-like aftertaste. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022). <  n.a1325 |
