单词 | home-brewed |
释义 | home-brewedadj.n. A. adj. 1. Of beer, wine, or other alcoholic drink: brewed at home; brewed for consumption locally or on the same premises. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > brewing > [adjective] > brewed home-brewed1653 homebrew1894 1653 tr. L. van Aitzema Notable Revol. Netherlands sig. a3v Certain imposts, upon all sorts of wines, forrein and homebrewed beer, mill'd corn and grain. 1717 Daily Courant 15 Feb. 1/2 The Home-brew'd Ale in the Cellar is to be sold by wholesale. 1771 E. Griffith Hist. Lady Barton II. xxxvi. 85 A man had better be contented with the wholesome home-brewed beer of old England, than pay too dear for Tokay. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 45 Home-brewed ale of excellent quality. 1871 ‘G. Eliot’ in Macmillan's Mag. July 185 Pfui! The time was, I drank that home-brewed wine. 1927 Passing Show Summer 33/3 Perhaps they sell home-brewed cider. 1995 J. Shreeve Neandertal Enigma (1996) ix. 237 Most of the time they hung around in the park, extorting food from the locals and getting drunk on..home-brewed banana liquor. 2. In extended use: native, indigenous; homemade. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native people > [adjective] > belonging to or used by naturallya1533 natively1590 native1779 home-brewed1802 indigenous1846 desi1885 1802 S. T. Coleridge Let. 19 July (1956) II. 813 But I am a homebrewed Englishman, and tolerate downright grossness more patiently than this coy and distant Dallying with the Appetites. 1808 E. S. Barrett Miss-led General 182 One Whitepot, a very good sort of a home-brewed general. 1894 Law Times 97 387/2 Sir Richard Malins..dispensed a home-brewed equity of his own. 1921 Forest & Stream Sept. 403/2 I derive especial delight out of casting my own home-brewed plugs. 1992 M. Riva Marlene Dietrich 710 In Europe, his murder hardly caused a ripple—it was an American home-brewed tragedy. B. n. = homebrew n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > [noun] > home-brewed home-brewed1752 homebrew1814 1752 Adventures of Valet I. iii. ix. 232 I know where there's some charming Home-brewed just by. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. xxii. 221 The landlady..filled a brown pitcher with her homebrewed. 1883 J. Parker Tyne Chylde 107 What he called ‘real old English home-brewed’. 1939 P. G. Wodehouse Uncle Fred in Springtime xv. 218 The Ovens home-brewed is a liquid Pollyanna, for ever pointing out the bright side and indicating silver linings. 1984 C. Kightly Country Voices v. 130 That's how them old men worked so hard. They'd drink that home brewed, and they'd goo out, and the work they'd do 'ud kill a man today. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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