| 单词 | tough junk |
| 释义 | > as lemmastough junk 3. Originally and chiefly Nautical. More fully salt junk. Salt meat, esp. as used as food on long sea voyages. Formerly also in †old junk, †tough junk. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > preserved meat > [noun] > salted meat Martinmas meatc1450 Martinmas beefc1475 powder beef1479 Martinmas flesh1656 Irish horse1748 bully1753 junk1762 salt junk1792 salt horse1836 red horse1864 hunter's beef1879 bullamacow1887 Jack1890 macon1939 1762 T. Smollett Adventures Sir Launcelot Greaves II. xiii. 9 Your mistress Aurelia, whom I value no more than old junk, pork-slush, or stinking stockfish. 1792 M. Cutler Let. 5 Mar. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) I. 486 I had infinitely rather sit down with you to a piece of salt junk at one o'clock than be tormented with the parade..of Philadelphia entertainments. 1818 ‘A. Burton’ Adventures Johnny Newcome 78 They dined on Junk and Cheese. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. x. v. 646 Stedfastly eating tough junk with a wetting of rum. 1896 Boys of Eng. 25 Sept. (Boys Prince Novelettes Suppl.) 3/1 The half-hour occupied in eating their junk and biscuit. 1902 H. Lawson Children of Bush 291 The men who made Australia live on damper junk and tea. 2016 Grimsby Tel. 14 Nov. 31/2 ‘I just went to get some salt meat out of the first cask on the boat deck and it's gone.’.. ‘There's plenty of fish in the sea to make up for it. After all it's only salt junk we've lost.’ < as lemmas |
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