α. 1800s– tomalley, 1900s– tamale, 1900s– tamali, 1900s– tamalley, 1900s– tomale, 1900s– tomaly.
β. 1800s tomalline (rare), 1900s tomalin (rare, historical).
单词 | tomalley |
释义 | tomalleyn.α. 1800s– tomalley, 1900s– tamale, 1900s– tamali, 1900s– tamalley, 1900s– tomale, 1900s– tomaly. β. 1800s tomalline (rare), 1900s tomalin (rare, historical). Originally U.S. regional (New England). The digestive gland or hepatopancreas of a lobster, esp. when used as a foodstuff or ingredient; (now also) the hepatopancreas of a crab used in the same way.Lobster tomalley, which turns green when cooked, is considered a delicacy and is eaten either on its own or mixed into sauces. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > lobster > fat or liver of tomalley1860 1860 New Amer. Cycl. X. 598/1 There is a greenish glandular organ surrounding the intestine, with a mixture of fat cells; this, popularly called “tom alley”, is the liver. 1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Tom-alley, the liver of the lobster, which becomes green when boiled; called also tom-alline. 1866 Boston Daily Advertiser 9 July ‘C. H. D.’ has convinced my better half that the ‘tom-alley’ ought not to be eaten. 1894 Ladies' Home Jrnl. July 21/3 Lobster salad. Cut or chop the meat of two lobsters into pieces about half an inch square. Arrange in a neat pile on the dish. The coral and tomalley may be placed on top. 1950 R. Moore Candlemas Bay 289 The lobsters boiled to a fine, even red. Grampie ate five. Then he wiped the tomalley off his jacknife. 1992 N.Y. Times 27 Sept. wc15/1 They should also not eat any hepatopancreas (the mustard, liver or tomalley of crabs). 2012 Observer (Nexis) 18 Mar. (Food Monthly Suppl.) 26 Discard the black intestinal vein and the green tomalley but keep any roe or coral. Compounds General attributive, designating foods made from or with tomalley, as tomalley butter, tomalley sauce, etc. ΚΠ 1948 Portland (Maine) Press Herald 4 Mar. 24/1 Lobster croquettes, Tomalley sauce. 1981 Washington Post 8 Feb. k1 Whisk in the tomalley butter and add the shredded claw meat. 2014 Stratford (Ontario) Gaz. (Nexis) 19 Nov. Chef Ryan O'Donnell..helped to morph the idea from a tomalley paste to a tomalley oil. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1860 |
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