| 单词 | breadberry |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbreadberry breadberry n. originally and chiefly Scottish (now rare) bread steeped in hot water or milk, sometimes with seasoning or sugar; cf. bread and milk n. (a) at Phrases 2b, aleberry n. [For the second element compare bree n.2 and β. forms at aleberry n.] ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > bread dish > [noun] > sops brewisc1440 pain perdua1450 bread and milk1549 sugar-sops1581 Poor Knights1659 breadberry1715 milk toast1840 sop1845 kettle-broth1880 slinger1882 1715 A. Pitcairne Method of curing Small-pox in G. Sewell & J. T. Desaguliers tr. A. Pitcairne Wks. 273 Let the Child's Diet be..a thin Bread-berry. 1864 J. Brown Plain Words Health 44 Giving the baby..thin bread-berry once a day..so as gradually to wean it. 1909 Manch. Courier 10 Sept. 9/5 I would give it milk puddings and breadberry till it was one year old. 1936 Belfast Tel. 25 July 5/4 Where will you get a better word for the familiar dish bread-and-milk than the Ulster ‘panada’?.. How distinguished it sounds compared with the Scots and English equivalents—saps, sops, bread-berry, and steepies. < as lemmas |
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