| 单词 | toad in the hole |
| 释义 | > as lemmastoad in the (†a) hole a. Cookery. toad in the (†a) hole: meat, now usually sausages, baked in batter. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > sausage > [noun] > sausage dish toad in the (a) hole1787 haggis supper1877 pig in a blanket1926 sausage toad1937 krautfurter1949 currywurst1960 1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Pudding-Pye-Doll, the dish called toad-in-a-hole, meat boiled in a crust. Norf. 1797 F. Burney Let. Dec. in Diary & Lett. (1840) IV. 47 Mrs. Siddons and Sadler's Wells..seems..as illfitted as the dish they call a toad in a hole,..putting a noble sirloin of beef into a poor paltry batter-pudding. 1836 A. W. Fonblanque Eng. under Seven Admin. (1837) III. 314 ‘Toad-in-a-hole’, a piece of meat baked in a pudding, with a pool of gravy round it. 1883 F. B. Harrison Little Pretty iv I give you hashes, and toad-in-the-hole, and curry, and use up all the odds and ends. 1927 P. Riley Mem. ii. 11 Dinner..varied from salt beef,..‘Schooner on the Rocks’, i.e., joint of meat roasted on potatoes, or ‘toad in the hole’. 1934 Cassell's Mod. Practical Cookery 145/1 Put in the sausages. Season the batter,..and pour it over them. Put the toad-in-the-hole into a good, moderately hot oven. 1934 T. S. Eliot Rock i. 40 Restaurants where you can get..sausage and mashed or toad-in-the-'ole for twopence. 1943 L. Chatterton Mod. Cookery 167/1 Toad in the hole without eggs... Milk,..flour,..bicarbonate of soda,..vinegar,..salt,..sausages,..dripping... Small sausages are best.., or..steak cut in two-inch pieces may be used. 1959 B. Nilson Penguin Cookery Bk. 330 Toad-in-the-hole is made like Yorkshire pudding, but 1lb. skinned sausages is heated in the fat for 5 minutes before adding the batter. 1971 Guardian 18 June 11/6 Although ‘toad-in-the-hole’ is an unprepossessing name it must be one of the few dishes which sounds even worse in French. I am sure no one would eat ‘Le crapaud au trou’. toad in the hole b. toad in the hole: a name applied to various games, esp. a form of hide-and-seek and a game in which lead discs are thrown at holes in a wooden structure. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > other specific games > [noun] > others sitisota1400 papsea1450 half-bowl1477 pluck at the crow1523 white and black1555 running game1581 blow-pointa1586 hot cocklesa1586 one penny1585 cockelty bread1595 pouch1600 venter-point1600 hinch-pinch1603 hardhead1606 poor and rich1621 rowland-hoe1622 hubbub1634 handicap?a1653 owl1653 ostomachy1656 prelledsa1660 quarter-spellsa1660 yert-point1659 bob-her1702 score1710 parson has lost his cloak1712 drop (also throw) (the) handkerchief1754 French Fox1759 goal1765 warpling o' the green1768 start1788 kiss-in-the-ring1801 steal-clothes1809 steal-coat1816 petits paquets1821 bocce1828 graces1831 Jack-in-the-box1836 hot hand1849 sparrow-mumbling1852 Aunt Sally1858 gossip1880 Tambaroora1882 spoof1884 fishpond1892 nim1901 diabolo1906 Kim's game1908 beaver1910 treasure-hunt1913 roll-down1915 rock scissors paper1927 scissors cut paper1927 scissors game1927 the dozens1928 toad in the hole1930 game1932 scissors paper stone1932 Roshambo1936 Marco Polo1938 scavenger hunt1940 skish1940 rock paper scissors1947 to play chicken1949 sounding1962 joning1970 arcade game1978 1930 J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel 381 They got tired playing toad in the hole in the deep weeds. 1969 I. Opie & P. Opie Children's Games iv. 154 When played after dark, as is not unusual, it [sc. Hide-and-Seek] may have a special name, such as..‘Toad in the Hole’ (Forfar). 1969 E. H. Pinto Treen 229 Toad-in-the-hole..probably originated in England in Tudor times. Since then, it has been played in many parts of the world, including Argentina, where it is known as Sapo. 1970 Daily Tel. 18 Mar. 15/6 Mr. P. N. Barnard's letter..about the ‘charity game’ known as toad in the hole..has provided me with a translation into English of this very old game which used to be played a great deal in France, where it is known as tonneau. 1975 Country Life 11 Dec. 1677/4 I am..looking for examples of the following regional inn sports:..twister (Suffolk), and toad in the hole (Sussex)... Every one of the games I have mentioned is actually played in English pubs today. < as lemmas |
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