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单词 tottenham
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Tottenhamn.

/ˈtɒt(ə)nəm/
Forms: In 1500s Totnam.
Etymology: < Tottenham, the name of a northern suburb of London.
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a. Tottenham is turned French, a proverb used in reference to any unlikely or remarkable change. Obsolete.
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > change of direction, reversion > reversal [phrase]
Tottenham is turned French1546
to turn the tables1612
to have one's heart in one's boots (also shoes, heels, hose, etc.)1642
the boot is on the other leg1854
the shoe is on the other foot1933
the wheel has come full circle1944
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. vii. sig. Biv Their faces told toies, yt Totnam was turnd frenche.
1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades iv. 60 Do what thou canst, the time wil come that Totnam French shal turn; The Gods and I will so prouide.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) ii. 178 Tottenham is turn'd French... It seems about the beginning of the Reign of King Henry the eigth, French Mechanicks swarmed in England, to the great prejudice of English Artisans.
b. Tottenham Pudding n. feed for pigs or poultry, consisting of sterilized kitchen waste.
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the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > food eaten by birds > poultry food
gobbetc1384
shack1536
patoun1600
cram1614
chicken meat1684
soilinga1825
chicken feed1843
cram-cake1888
laying meal1908
laying mash1926
Tottenham Pudding1944
balancer meal1950
balancer mash1955
the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > pig fodder > other pig fodder
defrutc1420
hog meata1500
shack1536
hog potato1776
pig potato1796
Tottenham Pudding1944
1944 Halnan & Garner Princ. & Pract. Feeding Farm Animals (ed. 2) xvi. 329 In the process of cooking the waste..sets to a firm..‘pudding’ which finds a ready market for feeding to pigs and poultry. Since this pudding was first produced in..Tottenham..such prepared food is known as ‘Tottenham Pudding’.
1966 ‘K. Nicholson’ Hook, Line & Sinker viii. 91 He's a Large White... In the winter, he has his quota of Tottenham Pudding—that's concentrated swill, sterilised by steam.
1980 Good Housek. Dec. 226/6 The days of muck and mystery, when poultry were fed on ‘Tottenham Pudding’—kitchen waste from hotels and restaurants, boiled up and sterilised.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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