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Suffolk|ˈsʌfək|
a. The name of one of the counties of East Anglia; used attrib. in designations of things produced in or peculiar to the county, as Suffolk butter, Suffolk cheese, Suffolk cow, Suffolk dumpling, Suffolk dun, Suffolk ham, Suffolk pig; Suffolk bang (see quot.); Suffolk coprolite, a phosphatic nodule occurring in the Red Crag of Suffolk; Suffolk crag, a Pliocene formation occurring in Suffolk (see quot. 1852); Suffolk grass, the annual meadow grass, Poa annua; Suffolk latch (see quot. 1972); Suffolk punch, a small but strong and hardy horse bred largely in Suffolk; Suffolk sheep, a black-faced hornless sheep of a breed first developed in East Anglia, distinguished by a short fleece, large size, and the production of lean meat; Suffolk thump = Suffolk bang.
1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., *Suffolk Bang, a very poor and hard kind of cheese.
1735J. Kirby Suffolk Trav. 2 In this Part is made the *Suffolk Butter, so managed by the Neat Dairy-Wife, that it is justly esteemed the pleasantest and best in England.
1636Davenant Wits iii. i, Some *Suffolk Cheese. 1661Pepys Diary 4 Oct., I found my wife vexed at her people for grumbling to eat Suffolk cheese. 1797Young Agric. Suffolk 203 Cheese 5d., but Suffolk 3½d. and 4d.
1867Sibson Agric. Chem. 249 *Suffolk Coprolites are amongst the first known phosphatic minerals.
1797T. M. in Young Agric. Suffolk 180 note, The true *Suffolk polled cow. 1834[Youatt] Cattle (Lib. Usef. Knowl.) 175 The milking properties of the Suffolk cow.
1852Lyell Man. Elem. Geol. (ed. 4) 162 The *Suffolk crag is divisible into two masses, the upper of which has been termed the Red, and the lower the Coralline Crag.
1824New Syst. Cookery (new ed.) 234 Yeast or *Suffolk Dumplings.
1834[Youatt] Cattle (Lib. Usef. Knowl.) 174 The *Suffolk Dun used to be celebrated..on account of the extraordinary quantity of milk that she yielded. 1875Encycl. Brit. I. 389/1 A polled breed of cattle, the prevailing colour of which is dun or pale red, from which they are known as the Suffolk Duns.
1759B. Stillingfleet Observ. Grasses in Misc. Tracts (1762) 367 What is known in some few counties by the name of the *Suffolk grass. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 368 The Pòa ánnua, or Suffolk grass, is so short of growth..as to render it an encumberer of the soil.
1855E. Acton Mod. Cookery (rev. ed.) xiii. 256 The receipt for the *Suffolk ham. 1966Times 28 Dec. 9/6 A genuine Suffolk ham man is Mr. R. Stiff of Kersey. He uses his own pigs and douses the hams in black treacle, spices and stout. They are then floated in tubs of sweet pickle.
1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 819/2 *Suffolk Latch (Join.), a variant of the Norfolk Latch. 1972Country Life 13 Jan. 98/1 The great variety of country door-latches would reward a study in depth: the well-known type, the ‘Suffolk latch’, is usually operated by a pivoted blade, which passing through the door and depressed by thumb pressure, lifts the latch. 1981‘G. Gaunt’ Incomer xviii. 117 Les Taunton thumbed down the Suffolk latch of the Queen's Head taproom and entered.
1842Penny Cycl. XXIII. 214/1 *Suffolk pigs are perhaps..the most profitable breed in England.
1784Cullum Hist. Hawsted 222 This breed is well known by the name of *Suffolk Punches. 1816J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 644 The Suffolk⁓punches, which are common in the district called High Suffolk. 1850Dickens Dav. Copp. xix, A Suffolk Punch, when he's a good 'un, is worth his weight in gold.
[1794A. Young Gen. View Agric. Suffolk xiii. 33 The Norfolk breed of sheep spread over almost every part of the county; and as the most famous flocks are about Bury..it has been observed, that they ought rather to be called the Suffolk breed.] 1893J. Wrightson Sheep viii. 75 The original *Suffolk sheep existed in famous flocks during Arthur Young's time.
a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia s.v. Bang, *Suffolk Thump.
†b. Suffolk powder: see quot. Obs.
1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl., Suffolk powder, the name of a medicinal powder, good for the bite of a mad dog. It had its name from a Countess of Suffolk, who used to give it with great success.
c. absol. = Suffolk cow, pig, punch, or sheep.
[1797in Young Agric. Suffolk 185 The Suffolk milk gave two and one-third ounces more cream than the horned one.] 1831W. Youatt Horse 39 The immense power of the Suffolk is accounted for by the low position of the shoulder. 1834[―] Cattle (Lib. Usef. Knowl.) 175 In no part of the kingdom were the farmers more careless as to the breed, providing only that the cows were true Suffolks. 1846― Pig 66 A cross between the Suffolk and Lincoln. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXV. 193/2 The Suffolk..probably took its origin in the crossing of improved Southdown rams with the old horned Norfolk ewes. 1928[see actioned ppl. a.]. 1960G. E. Evans Horse in Furrow xiii. 181 He knew the Suffolks so well..that he could pick out a horse's breed by studying him. 1979C. MacLeod Luck runs Out (1981) ii. 21 Those gorgeous Clydesdales and Percherons and Belgians and Suffolks..with their brasses polished like gold. 1980‘D. Shannon’ Felony File vii. 173 He's found the sheep... They're sixty dollars each. They're Suffolks.
Hence Suffolkian (in 7 -cean), a., of or belonging to the county of Suffolk; ˈSuffolkism (-cism), a Suffolk idiom or peculiarity.
1622Drayton Poly-olb. xix. 399 From the Suffolcean side yet those which Stour prefer Their princely Orwell praise. 1823E. Moor Suffolk Words 23 Where words occur, not readily understood by the Unsuffolked reader, he is to take them as Suffolcisms. |