| 释义 |
‖ ghee|giː|
Also 7 gee, 7–9 ghi.
[Hindi ghī, Skr. ghrta, f. ghr to sprinkle.]
a. Butter made from buffalo's or cow's milk, clarified by boiling, so as to resemble oil in consistency.
1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 100 Butter, Gee, or Moccon. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 33 But they will drink Milk and boil'd Butter, which they call Ghe. 1732Pike in Phil. Trans. XXXVII. 233 Take the White of five or six Eggs, and four Ounces of Ghee. 1816‘Quiz’ Grand Master ii. 51 [He] begs ‘from master a rupee, To go to the bazar for ghee’. 1830Macaulay Ess., Montgomery (1854) 122 He asked pardon of him who carried the dog, and bought it for a measure of rice and a pot of ghee. 1873H. Blochmann tr. Abul Fazl 'Allami's Ain i Akbari I. 130 Most of them get..4s. of g'hí, and half a man of rice. 1879E. Arnold Lt. Asia v. 130 Bright tongues of flame Hissing and curling as they licked the gifts Of ghee and spices. 1939M. Pallis Peaks & Lamas ii. 21 In most districts the village shop can be relied on for flour, rice, lentils, ghi (clarified butter), sugar, onions and pepper. 1957Encycl. Brit. X. 323/2 Ghee... The best is prepared from butter of the milk of cows, the less esteemed from that of buffaloes. 1959Times 31 Dec. 10/6 A ramshackle bus which smelt of packed humanity, spiced with garlic, ghi, [etc.]. 1967Singha & Massey Indian Dances iv. 59 A small diva (oil-lamp) which burnt ghee (clarified butter) was placed on a salver. 1971Illustr. Weekly India 4 Apr. 31/3, I tried to retaliate by objecting to his eating spiced food cooked in ghee.
b. attrib. and Comb., as ghee-bowl, ghee-pot; ghee-fed adj.
1835–6Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 545/2 Its ventricose body firmly imbedded in a ghee-bowl. 1845Stocqueler Handbk. Brit. India (1854) 180 The slim, wasted form of a New⁓market jockey elbowing a fat ghee-fed Baboo. 1889Voice (N.Y.) 7 Mar., We would let go the drop of ghee rather than upset the gheepot. |