单词 | havermeal |
释义 | havermealn. Chiefly English regional (northern) and Scottish. Now rare. Meal consisting of ground oats; = oatmeal n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > oatmeal oatmeal1381 havermealc1440 lithe1688 round meal1792 Quaker Oats1889 c1440 Liber de Diversis Med. 28 Tak hauyrmele & stampe it wele & sethe it with fresche brothe & ete þer-of wele. 1651 Mercurius Scoticus 20 Aug. in C. H. Firth Sc. & Commonw. (1895) 318 The other Ship of 160 Tun laden with Haver Meale and Barly. ?1689 in J. W. Ebsworth Roxburghe Ballads (1895) VIII. i. 453 Where got thou the haver-meal Bannock? 1785 W. Hutton Bran New Wark ii. 33 A dubbler of haver-meal. 1872 Joe & Landlord 6 in T. Clarke et al. Specimens Westmorland Dial. He knew nowt about crowdies. I telt him they war meade o' haver meal. 1885 W. H. Smith Walks in Weardale (ed. 2) 148 She..mixed t'haver-meal wih t'yal ta mak t'stowrie. 1925 J. Dunlop in Sc. National Dict. (1960) V. 68/2 In Canonbie..the people always referred to oatmeal as ‘heffer or hever meal’. 1956 W. M. Williams Sociol. Eng. Village v. 117 He was forced to live for several months..on ‘haver-meal poddish’ (oat-meal porridge) in a disused barn. 2013 S. Thomas Midwife's Tale iii. 38 She..dashed off to the kitchen. A few minutes later, she reappeared with the mixture of spiced wine and havermeal. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1440 |
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