单词 | to beat to a mummy |
释义 | > as lemmasto beat (also smash, thrash, etc.) to a mummy (earlier into mummy, to mummy) b. A pulpy substance or mass; pulp. Esp. in to beat (also smash, thrash, etc.) to a mummy (earlier into mummy, to mummy).Quot. 1601 may be an illustration of sense 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > types of softness > [noun] > pulpiness or mushiness > pulp pomace1555 mash1598 mummy1601 pulp1633 pomate1699 pulpament1699 pummy1754 mush1824 pash1825 smush1825 1601 W. Cornwallis Disc. Seneca sig. A4 I verily beleeue the hanging of one man, to worke better effects amongst men, then twentie made into mummie. 1612 R. Daborne Christian turn'd Turke i. v. sig. Iv If you gull me now, Il'e giue you leaue to make mummy of me. 1662 R. Brathwait Chimneys Scuffle 3 That those whose Fortunes are not worth a straw Should be thus pounc'd to Mummie. 1693 G. Powell Very Good Wife iv. 30 The Conclusion is, that if I ever hear you mention my Name in any sense whatsoever, I'll beat thee into Mummy. 1699 Protestant Mercury 4–6 Oct. 2/1 They..almost Thrash'd him to Mummy. 1724 W. Forbes Xantippe 5 This put me past all Sense, so that—G— damn me, I scarce forbare to beat the Rogue to Mummie. 1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery ii. 52 It must be very thick and dry, and not the Rice boiled to a Mummy. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 680 The most horrible machines, calculated for grinding to mummy those unhappy criminals. 1834 Tracts for Times No. 22. 2 These little mountaineers [sc. Scottish ponies] got in at a weak place in the hedge..and trod the garden, as one may say, to a mummy. 1847 E. Brontë Wuthering Heights II. vii. 128 I believe the master would relish Earnshaw's thrashing him to a mummy. 1890 Leeds Mercury 28 May 5/7 John Crow..stated that..her face appeared to be smashed to a ‘mummy’. a1903 J. P. Kirk in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 201/1 [S. Nottinghamshire] Ah don't like my taters boiled to a mummy. < as lemmas |
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