单词 | chop-day |
释义 | > as lemmaschop-day Food. Also attributive, as chop-day, chop-money, chop-room; chop-box n. a food-box. ΚΠ 1805 H. Nicholls Let. 15 Feb. in R. Hallet Rec. Afr. Assoc. (1964) xi. 208 Their food is chop made of yam cut in slices, cayenne pepper, palm oil, and fowl, fish, goat or wild hog. 1863 R. F. Burton Wanderings W. Afr. II. ix. 144 ‘Palm-oil chop’ is the curry of the Western coast. 1870 Food Jrnl. Apr. 154 In those days,..every chief of any consideration had what was called his chop-day, or feast-day. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 313 The unfortunate white men..are expected..to live on native chop. 1898 R. A. Freeman Trav. Ashanti 363 Besides the chair and fan he carried a small ‘chop box’, i.e. a box containing the requisites for a meal and my portable tea service. 1902 Daily Chron. 10 July 3/5 2s. a week ‘chop’ money or maintenance. 1904 J. M. Fremantle W. Afr. Jrnl. 10 Dec. (1938) 30 Pretty cram full with 100 bits of luggage, ‘chop-boxes’ mountain high. 1920 Blackwood's Mag. June 844/2 Evans went in to the chop-room. 1921 Chambers's Jrnl. 782/1 A chop-box (Anglice, food-box) did duty for a seat. 1935 G. Greene Basement Room & Other Stories 5 Old Coasters..call all food chop. < as lemmas |
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