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ˈkitchen-ˈphysic humorous.
Nourishment for an invalid, suitable for ‘feeding up’.
1592Greene Upst. Courtier in Harl. Misc. (ed. Park) V. 406 If I be ill at ease, I take kitchyn physicke, I make my wife my doctor, and my garden my apoticaries shop. 1658Sir. T. Mayerne's Archim. Anglo-Gall. Pref. 2 The Excellency of Kitchin-physick, beyond all Gally pots. 1738Swift Pol. Conversat. ii. 154 Well, after all, Kitchen-Physic is the best Physic. 1863J. L. W. By-gone Days 5 The Manse..being the resort of the sick and aged..when in want of what the minister's wife termed ‘kitchen physic’.
So ˈkitchen phyˈsician.
1797A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl IV. i. 21 The fever took its departure, and left Rosa in the hands of an excellent kitchen physician. |