| 释义 |
crowdie, crowdy Sc. and north. Eng.|ˈkraʊdɪ|
Also 7 croudy.
[Derivation unknown.
Jamieson conjectured some connexion with grout, and Icel. groutr porridge; this suits the sense, but leaves phonetic conditions unsatisfied.]
1. Meal and water stirred together so as to form a thick gruel. Frequently used as a designation for food of the brose or porridge kind in general. Jamieson. Now Obs. or only traditionally known.
1668Ld. Newbottle Cakes o' Croudy in Jacobite Songs, Bannocks of bear meal, cakes of Croudy. 1724Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1733) I. 91 Powsowdy and drummock and crowdy. 1804Anderson Cumbrld. Ballads 112 For dinner I'd hev a fat crowdy. 1855Robinson Whitby Gloss., Crowdy, oatmeal and water boiled to a paste and eaten with salt, or thinned with milk and sweetened. Spoonmeat in general. 1862Smiles Engineers III. 238 There he [Stephenson] had his breakfast of ‘crowdie’, which he made with his own hands. It consisted of oatmeal stirred into a basin of hot water..which was supped with cold sweet milk.
2. In some parts of the north of Scotland, a peculiar preparation of milk.
‘In Ross-shire it denotes curds with the whey pressed out, mixed with butter, nearly in an equal proportion’ (Jamieson).
1820Glenfergus II. 275 (Jam.) Then came..the remains of a cog of crowdy, that is, of half butter, half cheese. 1938L. MacNeice I crossed Minch ii. xii. 167 For my tea I had..a large hunk of ‘crowdy’. Ibid. 168 ‘Crowdy’ is a kind of..crumbly cream cheese, pure white and with practically no taste. 1946Farmhouse Fare (ed. 2) 274 In Aberdeenshire a delicious crowdie is made from buttermilk.
3. Comb., as crowdie-time; crowdy-mowdy = crowdie 1, ‘generally denoting milk and meal boiled together’ (Jam.); also humorously as a term of endearment.
1500–20Dunbar Poems, In Secreit Place 46 My tyrlie myrlie, my crowdie mowdie. 1724Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1733) I. 21 With crowdy mowdy they fed me. 1787Burns Holy Fair vi, Then I gaed hame at crowdie-time. |