α. 1500s swynes brede, 1500s–1600s swynes breade, 1500s–1700s swine's bread.
β. see swine n. and bread n.
单词 | swine-bread |
释义 | swine-breadn.α. 1500s swynes brede, 1500s–1600s swynes breade, 1500s–1700s swine's bread. β. see swine n. and bread n. 1. The tuberous root of any of various Eurasian species of cyclamen; (also) any of these plants; = sow-bread n. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > primrose and allied flowers > cyclamen earth applelOE dill-nuta1450 swine-bread1526 rape violet1548 cyclamen?1550 sow-bread?1550 sow's bread1558 lady's seal1592 hog's bread1607 sow-wort1838 1526 Grete Herball viii. sig. A.v/2 A rote called malum terre, or swynes brede. 1568 W. Turner New Bk. Natures of Wines sig. F.viv To them that are diseased in the milt, the roote of Swines bread, called Cyclamem, or the barkes of Capers, or put vnto the sixt part of pepper. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iii. 98 Swines-bread, so vsed, doth not onely speed A tardy labour; but (without great heed) If ouer it a Child-great Woman stride, Instant abortion often doth betide. 1788 tr. C. E. Savary Lett. on Greece xxxvii. 386 The herb, which we call swine's bread, fringes the foot of these rocks; and, in Spring, adorns the ground with its elegant flower. 1855 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. IV. 234 Swine-bread is an old name for it; and the French call it Pain de Porceau, or, as it is provincially termed, Pain de pur. 2010 Kentish Express (Nexis) 18 Nov. The name sowbread, or swinebread, originates from the plant being regularly fed to pigs in southern Europe. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > mushrooms or edible fungi > truffle or underground fungus truffle1591 truff1633 earthnutc1660 trub1668 swine-bread1677 tuber1704 deer-ball1854 earth-ball1863 hart's-balls1866 hart's-truffle1866 Perigord truffle1869 oak-truffle1874 1677 G. Miege New Dict. French & Eng. i. sig. *Oooo2v/1 Trufe, Sow-bread, or swine bread (a most dainty kind of round and russet root). 1696 tr. J. Dumont New Voy. Levant vi. 68 Tis not so hard a Task to know the delicious Earth-Apples or Swine-bread [Fr. Trufes]. 1704 tr. L. Lémery Treat. Foods i. lxiv. 97 Swine-Bread contains much Oil, essential Salt, and Earth. 1777 J. Wesley Surv. Wisdom God (ed. 3) IV. 195 A swine-bread, an agaric, a liverwort, on the contrary,..have in them so small a resemblance to plants. 1849 Visitor 432/1 Swine are fond of this mushroom, and skilled in detecting it; and on this account it has been called swine's-bread. 3. Scottish. The plant pignut ( Conopodium majus). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > earth-nut or plant earthnutOE earth chestnut1578 cipper-nut1653 hog-nut1771 swine-bread1888 1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield Pig-nut, sb. the earth nut. Bunium flexuosum. Called Swine-bread in Inverness-shire. 1972 in Sc. National Dict. (1974) IX. 163/2 Swine-bread. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1526 |
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