| 单词 | water size |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater size j. Designating an item of food or drink prepared with water (instead e.g. of milk), or by mixing or diluting with water. Also with reference to other prepared substances in which water is an important ingredient, as water size, water starch. See also water gruel n., water-ice n. 1, water-sop n. 1, water toast n. at Compounds 7, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > biscuit > [noun] > crackers watera1450 cracker1739 water biscuit1789 water cracker1803 cream cracker1906 Triscuit1906 saltine1907 shrimp cracker1969 the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > cider > [noun] > ciderkin or small cider water cidera1450 purrec1623 pomperkin1637 water cidera1665 ciderkin1678 perkin1761 beverage1796 a1450 MS Bodl. 779 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1889) 82 335 (MED) A lytil water-potage he ete. c1610–15 Some Notes before Liues in C. Horstmann Lives Women Saints (1886) 26 But to her self being sicke, she was still rigorous, hardlie admitting a little wine, with her water-meates. 1630 T. Dekker Second Pt. Honest Whore ii. i. 205 As arrant a whore as euer stiffned tiffany neckcloathes in water-starch. 1702 J. K. tr. F. Massialot Court & Country Cook 22 Two [Dishes] of Blanc-manger-fritters, garnish'd with Water-fritters. 1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery ix. 104 A Water Tansey. 1767 H. Robertson Young Ladies School of Arts (ed. 2) i. 30 (heading) Gilding in water-size. 1769 W. Buchan Domest. Med. i. 22 It will then be proper to give it..a little of some food that is easy of digestion; as water-pap, milk-pottage. 1786 R. Burns Poems 76 I'll sit down o'er my scanty meal, Be't water-brose, or muslin-kail, Wi chearfu' face. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality i, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. III. 9 We got some water-broo and bannocks. 1838 A. Langton Jrnl. in Gentlewoman Upper Canada (1950) 80 This morning the same party assembled to tea, coffee, and water porridge—a great favourite with most of the backwoodsmen. 1851 Manch. Guardian 14 May 5/6 They made her some water sops which she did eat. 1887 tr. A. Daudet Tartarin of Tarascon i. 67 From that day forward he lived upon water broth alone. 1947 W. de la Mare Coll. Stories for Children 61 A bowl of water-porridge, using up for it the last pinch of meal. 1957 K. Kęplicz tr. J. Sehn Concentration Camp Oświecim-Brzezinka v. 58 The basic meal consisted there of one litre of so-called Bunasuppe, a water soup concocted from potatoes and other foodstuffs of little nutritive value. 1991 D. V. Maurer & P. Maurer Marbling iii. 30/2 After several sheets have been marbled..the water size may become muddied. < as lemmas |
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