marshmallown.adj.

Brit.

/ˌmɑːʃˈmaləʊ/, U.S.

/ˈmɑrʃˌmɛloʊ/

Forms: see marsh n.¹ and mallow n.; also late Old English mersc-maleve, late Old English mersc-mealeve, early Middle English mersmelewe; English regional 1800s– mashmally, 1800s– march-mallus (plural), 1800s– marsh mallish (plural), 1800s– mash mallice (plural), 1800s– mashmallis (plural), 1800s– mash mallish (plural), 1800s– mash mallus (plural), 1800s– mesh mallish (plural).

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: marsh n.¹, mallow n.

Etymology: < marsh n.¹ + mallow n.In sense A. 2 now usually written as one word; in sense A. 1 usually with hyphen or written as two words.

A. n.

a. Also (now regional) in plural, with singular agreement. A shrubby plant of brackish ditches, Althaea officinalis, of the family Malvaceae, native to Eurasia and North Africa, which has ovate leaves, pale pink flowers, and a mucilaginous root.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > marshmallow

marshmalloweOE

hollyhocka1300

wymalvea1300

white mallowa1400

vimauea1425

mallow1483

marish mallow1548

water mallow1548

mucilage mallow1578

moorish mallow1597

wymote1597

shrub mallow1640

guimauve1812

eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) ii. xxxii. 236 Gif se utgang sie windig & wætrig & blodig beþige mon þone bæcþearm on gongstole mid fenugreco & mersc mealwe.

OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Vitell.) (1984) xxxix. 86 Ðeos wyrt þe man hibiscum & oðrum naman merscmealwe nemneð.

lOE Durham Plant Gloss. 8 Althea, mersc-mealeve.

a1400 Alphita (Selden) (1887) 22 Bismalua, alta malua, altea idem..ace. wymalue uel marshmalue.

?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 162^v Take..halfe ane ounce of wexe, þe sede of merschemalowes and of malowes ane halfe ane ounce.

1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. ii. f. 14^v/1 Take..of the rootes of Altea called Holyhocke, or marche mallowes.., a pounde.

1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 789 The leaues of marsh Mallowe are of power to digest.

1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 248 Decoction of march mallow roots in water.

1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 576 Mallows and Marsh-Mallows..will cure near Fifty Diseases.

1718 J. Quincy Pharmacopœia Officinalis 112 Althææ. Marshmallows. It flowers in July and August.

1753 J. Bartlet Gentleman's Farriery x. 96 The marshmallow ointment.

1785 J. Tobler S. Carolina & Georgia Almanac 20 Drinking a draught of marsh mellow tea after each dose.

1876 tr. H. W. von Ziemssen et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. IV. 210 For the relief of the irritable cough,..an infusion of marsh mallow or expectorant herbs.

1906 J. Vaughan Wild-flowers Selborne 137 The beautiful marsh-mallow..puts forth its pale, rose-coloured flowers every autumn..in the salterns.

1955 G. Grigson Englishman's Flora 102 Herb-women picked the leaves and dug the roots of Marsh Mallow on the salt marshes of the Thames estuary.

1986 Auckland Metro Feb. 30/2 Alpine tea, a mixture of..marshmallow leaves, senna leaves and yarrow, which is claimed to be a purifying laxative tea, aiding digestion.

b. Any of various other plants of the family Malvaceae, esp. (regional) common mallow, Malva sylvestris, and (Australian) small-flowered mallow, M. parviflora, and Australian hollyhock, Lavatera plebeia.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Malvaceae (mallows and allies) > [noun]

hockc725

malloweOE

crisp mallowa1300

altheaa1398

mawa1400

maula1425

alceac1440

malva1527

vervain mallow1548

cut mallow1565

dwarf mallow1578

curled mallow1620

musk1728

Sida1753

curled-leaved mallow1754

marshmallow1814

round dock1825

mallow wort1845

crisped-leaved mallow1846

Modiola1856

velvet-leaf1856

fairy cheeses1869

pancakes1882

frog cheese1886

musk plant1898

1814 J. Lunan Hortus Jamaicensis I. 492 (heading) Marshmallows of Jamaica..Sida.

1835 J. Batman Settlement Port Philip 4 June (1856) 18 We travelled over the richest land I had ever seen in my life; marsh mallows, with leaves as large as those of the cabbage tribe, and as high as my head.

1854 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. I. 275 Malva sylvéstris (Common Mallow)... Every one knows our common Mallow, Marsh or Mash-mallow, as country people frequently and erroneously term it.

1974 S. L. Everist Poisonous Plants Austral. 364 Malva parviflora..commonly known in Australia as marshmallow..is now widespread as a weed in many parts of the world.

a. A soft sweet confection made originally from the root of the marshmallow plant and later from albumen, gelatin, sugar, etc.; a small cake of this.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > other sweets

scrochat1448

gobbet riala1500

Portugal1560

sugar-pellet1591

muscadine1599

moscardino1616

rock candy1653

covering-seeds1687

lollipop1784

turn-over1798

lavender-sugar1810

humbug1825

kiss1825

elecampane1826

Gibraltar1831

yellow man1831

rose cake1834

cockle1835

maple candy1840

butterscotch1847

sponge candy1850

squib1851

honeycomb1857

marshmallow1857

motto kiss1858

fondant1861

coffee cream1868

candy-braid1870

candy bar1885

suckabob1888

nut bar1896

crackerjack1902

teiglach1903

red-hot1910

violet cream1912

mouldy1916

patty1916

lace1919

Tootsie Roll1925

sugar mouse1931

Parma1971

cinder toffee1979

1857 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Sentinel 17 Jan. (advt.) Marsh-Mallow Paste—Jujube Paste—Lemon, Rose, Banana, Pine-Apple-Liquorice.

1871 Cleveland (Ohio) Herald 14 Aug. (advt.) Cream Bon-Bons, Burnt Almonds, Imperial Eagle Gum Drops, and Marshmallows.

1883 Overland Monthly Dec. 565/3 She'll be in long clothes and a cradle by and by. Sweet little thing, too. Sweet, but kind o' doughy—like marsh-mallows.

1884 Chambers's Jrnl. 4 Oct. 640/2 Gum-arabic..makes about thirty per cent. of the best quality of gum-drops, marsh~mallow, and jujube paste.

1902 Westm. Gaz. 11 Aug. 12/1 Chocolates, ‘marsh-mallows’, and other toothsome delicacies.

1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 675/1 Turkish delight and marshmallows, chocolates and truffles.

1967 R. Dahl Charlie & Chocolate Factory ii. 15 Mr. Willy Wonka can make marshmallows that taste of violets.

1999 Jerusalem Post (Electronic ed.) 30 Apr. 27 The ultimate toasted marshmallow..The trick is to lightly dampen the marshmallow before you stick it in the fire.

b. figurative. A person who or thing which is insubstantial, superficial, weak, or sentimental.

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the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > sentimentality > [noun] > sentimental person

sentimentalist1778

foster-feeling1784

sentimental1784

sentimentalizer1865

sob sister1912

sob brother1914

marshmallow1935

1935 A. Woollcott Let. 19 Dec. (1946) 126 It is the substance of this editorial that as a recommender of books over the radio, I take advantage of a nation-wide network to further the sale of soft, sentimental works. ‘Marshmallows’ was the term employed.

1962 Listener 20 Sept. 452/1 The result was a marshmallow. The production [of a radio play], the music, and the story pulled apart.

1966 Punch 1 June 817/3 The situations are witty, the songs as true, her eyes as mistily, romantically happy as I remembered. Perhaps it is just that I am more of a marshmallow than I was as a teenager.

1974 Times 30 Apr. 9/3 Andy Williams might seem like marshmallow on television but..has a superb flair.

1984 J. Wilcox Mod. Baptists xvii. 124 All her excuses for not confronting Mr. Pickens added up to this simple fact: she was a marshmallow.

1998 Chicago Tribune 22 Oct. iv. 2/3 The new football ranking formula will reward teams that play marshmallows out of conference.

B. adj. (chiefly attributive).

Having the flavour of marshmallow; resembling or characteristic of marshmallow. Frequently figurative: soft, insubstantial, cloying, excessively sweet.

ΚΠ

1918 in C. B. de Mille Autobiogr. (1959) x. 209 The photoplay is breaking away from the marshmallow school of drama.

1926 Hutchinson's Best Story Mag. Nov. 109/1 Chocolate marshmallow ice cream.

1973 L. Hellman Pentimento (1974) 188 I never heard his name through the marshmallow English syllables.

1984 K. Waterhouse Thinks xiv. 123 He has already recovered from..his pitifully weak exhibition of marshmallow sentimentality at the remembered contact.

1998 Cosmopolitan (U.K. ed.) Sept. 86/3 I wish..I could have a six-pack stomach rather than a marshmallow one, and that I could be five inches taller.

Compounds

C1. Parasynthetic and general attributive.

marshmallow-fingered adj.

ΚΠ

1959 Times 14 Feb. 9/7 His [sc. a pianist's] exquisite, marshmallow-fingered touch.

marshmallow root n.

ΚΠ

1652 R. Pemell Tractatus de Simplicium Medicamentorum Facultatibus i. sig. C4 Take of Ammoniacum six ounces, Marsh mallow roote, and white Bryonie-root in powder, of each an ounce.

1830 A. Duncan Edinb. New Dispensary (ed. 12) iii. xxvii. 914 Boil the water with the marshmallow root to one-half, and press out the liquor when cold.

2012 D. Rakel Integrative Med. (ed. 3) lix. 554 Marshmallow root soothes inflates mucous membranes and stimulates immune function.

C2.

marshmallow roast n. chiefly North American a gathering at which marshmallows are roasted and eaten, usually around an open fire or barbecue.

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the world > food and drink > food > meal > feast > [noun] > feast by type of food

ambigu1669

oyster feast1718

waffle frolic1744

turtle-frolic1750

turtle-feast1753

turtle1771

turtle-dinner1805

waffle party1808

whitebait dinner1809

blood feast1832

sausage party1848

luau1853

pig roast1887

corn-roast1899

hog roast1908

marshmallow roast1914

spit roast1927

1914 Nation (N.Y.) 27 Aug. 242 A lady of the very highest fashion had been that evening entertaining at a ‘marshmallow roast’.

1930 E. Pound Draft of XXX Cantos xxix. 137 Languor has cried unto languor about the marshmallow-roast.

1977 New Yorker 12 Sept. 80/2 Monday night—campfire, marshmallow roast, jokes.

1990 Today's Parent Feb. (insert) 24–5 There'll also be native games, children's crafts and a marshmallow roast.

marshmallow tea n. English regional an infusion of marshmallow leaves, used esp. as a remedy for rheumatism.

ΚΠ

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. at Mash Mallice Mash mallice tay's the finedest thing in the wordle vor th'infermation [i.e. inflammation].

1892 S. Hewett Peasant Speech Devon 100 Mashmally-tay is very güde vur colds in the heyde!

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	marshmallow
释义	marshmallown.adj. Brit. /ˌmɑːʃˈmaləʊ/, U.S. /ˈmɑrʃˌmɛloʊ/ Forms: see marsh n.¹ and mallow n.; also late Old English mersc-maleve, late Old English mersc-mealeve, early Middle English mersmelewe; English regional 1800s– mashmally, 1800s– march-mallus (plural), 1800s– marsh mallish (plural), 1800s– mash mallice (plural), 1800s– mashmallis (plural), 1800s– mash mallish (plural), 1800s– mash mallus (plural), 1800s– mesh mallish (plural). Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: marsh n.¹, mallow n. Etymology: < marsh n.¹ + mallow n.In sense A. 2 now usually written as one word; in sense A. 1 usually with hyphen or written as two words. A. n. 1. a. Also (now regional) in plural, with singular agreement. A shrubby plant of brackish ditches, Althaea officinalis, of the family Malvaceae, native to Eurasia and North Africa, which has ovate leaves, pale pink flowers, and a mucilaginous root. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > marshmallow marshmalloweOE hollyhocka1300 wymalvea1300 white mallowa1400 vimauea1425 mallow1483 marish mallow1548 water mallow1548 mucilage mallow1578 moorish mallow1597 wymote1597 shrub mallow1640 guimauve1812 eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) ii. xxxii. 236 Gif se utgang sie windig & wætrig & blodig beþige mon þone bæcþearm on gongstole mid fenugreco & mersc mealwe. OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Vitell.) (1984) xxxix. 86 Ðeos wyrt þe man hibiscum & oðrum naman merscmealwe nemneð. lOE Durham Plant Gloss. 8 Althea, mersc-mealeve. a1400 Alphita (Selden) (1887) 22 Bismalua, alta malua, altea idem..ace. wymalue uel marshmalue. ?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 162^v Take..halfe ane ounce of wexe, þe sede of merschemalowes and of malowes ane halfe ane ounce. 1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. ii. f. 14^v/1 Take..of the rootes of Altea called Holyhocke, or marche mallowes.., a pounde. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 789 The leaues of marsh Mallowe are of power to digest. 1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 248 Decoction of march mallow roots in water. 1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 576 Mallows and Marsh-Mallows..will cure near Fifty Diseases. 1718 J. Quincy Pharmacopœia Officinalis 112 Althææ. Marshmallows. It flowers in July and August. 1753 J. Bartlet Gentleman's Farriery x. 96 The marshmallow ointment. 1785 J. Tobler S. Carolina & Georgia Almanac 20 Drinking a draught of marsh mellow tea after each dose. 1876 tr. H. W. von Ziemssen et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. IV. 210 For the relief of the irritable cough,..an infusion of marsh mallow or expectorant herbs. 1906 J. Vaughan Wild-flowers Selborne 137 The beautiful marsh-mallow..puts forth its pale, rose-coloured flowers every autumn..in the salterns. 1955 G. Grigson Englishman's Flora 102 Herb-women picked the leaves and dug the roots of Marsh Mallow on the salt marshes of the Thames estuary. 1986 Auckland Metro Feb. 30/2 Alpine tea, a mixture of..marshmallow leaves, senna leaves and yarrow, which is claimed to be a purifying laxative tea, aiding digestion. b. Any of various other plants of the family Malvaceae, esp. (regional) common mallow, Malva sylvestris, and (Australian) small-flowered mallow, M. parviflora, and Australian hollyhock, Lavatera plebeia. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Malvaceae (mallows and allies) > [noun] hockc725 malloweOE crisp mallowa1300 altheaa1398 mawa1400 maula1425 alceac1440 malva1527 vervain mallow1548 cut mallow1565 dwarf mallow1578 curled mallow1620 musk1728 Sida1753 curled-leaved mallow1754 marshmallow1814 round dock1825 mallow wort1845 crisped-leaved mallow1846 Modiola1856 velvet-leaf1856 fairy cheeses1869 pancakes1882 frog cheese1886 musk plant1898 1814 J. Lunan Hortus Jamaicensis I. 492 (heading) Marshmallows of Jamaica..Sida. 1835 J. Batman Settlement Port Philip 4 June (1856) 18 We travelled over the richest land I had ever seen in my life; marsh mallows, with leaves as large as those of the cabbage tribe, and as high as my head. 1854 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. I. 275 Malva sylvéstris (Common Mallow)... Every one knows our common Mallow, Marsh or Mash-mallow, as country people frequently and erroneously term it. 1974 S. L. Everist Poisonous Plants Austral. 364 Malva parviflora..commonly known in Australia as marshmallow..is now widespread as a weed in many parts of the world. 2. a. A soft sweet confection made originally from the root of the marshmallow plant and later from albumen, gelatin, sugar, etc.; a small cake of this. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > other sweets scrochat1448 gobbet riala1500 Portugal1560 sugar-pellet1591 muscadine1599 moscardino1616 rock candy1653 covering-seeds1687 lollipop1784 turn-over1798 lavender-sugar1810 humbug1825 kiss1825 elecampane1826 Gibraltar1831 yellow man1831 rose cake1834 cockle1835 maple candy1840 butterscotch1847 sponge candy1850 squib1851 honeycomb1857 marshmallow1857 motto kiss1858 fondant1861 coffee cream1868 candy-braid1870 candy bar1885 suckabob1888 nut bar1896 crackerjack1902 teiglach1903 red-hot1910 violet cream1912 mouldy1916 patty1916 lace1919 Tootsie Roll1925 sugar mouse1931 Parma1971 cinder toffee1979 1857 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Sentinel 17 Jan. (advt.) Marsh-Mallow Paste—Jujube Paste—Lemon, Rose, Banana, Pine-Apple-Liquorice. 1871 Cleveland (Ohio) Herald 14 Aug. (advt.) Cream Bon-Bons, Burnt Almonds, Imperial Eagle Gum Drops, and Marshmallows. 1883 Overland Monthly Dec. 565/3 She'll be in long clothes and a cradle by and by. Sweet little thing, too. Sweet, but kind o' doughy—like marsh-mallows. 1884 Chambers's Jrnl. 4 Oct. 640/2 Gum-arabic..makes about thirty per cent. of the best quality of gum-drops, marsh~mallow, and jujube paste. 1902 Westm. Gaz. 11 Aug. 12/1 Chocolates, ‘marsh-mallows’, and other toothsome delicacies. 1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 675/1 Turkish delight and marshmallows, chocolates and truffles. 1967 R. Dahl Charlie & Chocolate Factory ii. 15 Mr. Willy Wonka can make marshmallows that taste of violets. 1999 Jerusalem Post (Electronic ed.) 30 Apr. 27 The ultimate toasted marshmallow..The trick is to lightly dampen the marshmallow before you stick it in the fire. b. figurative. A person who or thing which is insubstantial, superficial, weak, or sentimental. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > sentimentality > [noun] > sentimental person sentimentalist1778 foster-feeling1784 sentimental1784 sentimentalizer1865 sob sister1912 sob brother1914 marshmallow1935 1935 A. Woollcott Let. 19 Dec. (1946) 126 It is the substance of this editorial that as a recommender of books over the radio, I take advantage of a nation-wide network to further the sale of soft, sentimental works. ‘Marshmallows’ was the term employed. 1962 Listener 20 Sept. 452/1 The result was a marshmallow. The production [of a radio play], the music, and the story pulled apart. 1966 Punch 1 June 817/3 The situations are witty, the songs as true, her eyes as mistily, romantically happy as I remembered. Perhaps it is just that I am more of a marshmallow than I was as a teenager. 1974 Times 30 Apr. 9/3 Andy Williams might seem like marshmallow on television but..has a superb flair. 1984 J. Wilcox Mod. Baptists xvii. 124 All her excuses for not confronting Mr. Pickens added up to this simple fact: she was a marshmallow. 1998 Chicago Tribune 22 Oct. iv. 2/3 The new football ranking formula will reward teams that play marshmallows out of conference. B. adj. (chiefly attributive). Having the flavour of marshmallow; resembling or characteristic of marshmallow. Frequently figurative: soft, insubstantial, cloying, excessively sweet. ΚΠ 1918 in C. B. de Mille Autobiogr. (1959) x. 209 The photoplay is breaking away from the marshmallow school of drama. 1926 Hutchinson's Best Story Mag. Nov. 109/1 Chocolate marshmallow ice cream. 1973 L. Hellman Pentimento (1974) 188 I never heard his name through the marshmallow English syllables. 1984 K. Waterhouse Thinks xiv. 123 He has already recovered from..his pitifully weak exhibition of marshmallow sentimentality at the remembered contact. 1998 Cosmopolitan (U.K. ed.) Sept. 86/3 I wish..I could have a six-pack stomach rather than a marshmallow one, and that I could be five inches taller. Compounds C1. Parasynthetic and general attributive. marshmallow-fingered adj. ΚΠ 1959 Times 14 Feb. 9/7 His [sc. a pianist's] exquisite, marshmallow-fingered touch. marshmallow root n. ΚΠ 1652 R. Pemell Tractatus de Simplicium Medicamentorum Facultatibus i. sig. C4 Take of Ammoniacum six ounces, Marsh mallow roote, and white Bryonie-root in powder, of each an ounce. 1830 A. Duncan Edinb. New Dispensary (ed. 12) iii. xxvii. 914 Boil the water with the marshmallow root to one-half, and press out the liquor when cold. 2012 D. Rakel Integrative Med. (ed. 3) lix. 554 Marshmallow root soothes inflates mucous membranes and stimulates immune function. C2. marshmallow roast n. chiefly North American a gathering at which marshmallows are roasted and eaten, usually around an open fire or barbecue. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > feast > [noun] > feast by type of food ambigu1669 oyster feast1718 waffle frolic1744 turtle-frolic1750 turtle-feast1753 turtle1771 turtle-dinner1805 waffle party1808 whitebait dinner1809 blood feast1832 sausage party1848 luau1853 pig roast1887 corn-roast1899 hog roast1908 marshmallow roast1914 spit roast1927 1914 Nation (N.Y.) 27 Aug. 242 A lady of the very highest fashion had been that evening entertaining at a ‘marshmallow roast’. 1930 E. Pound Draft of XXX Cantos xxix. 137 Languor has cried unto languor about the marshmallow-roast. 1977 New Yorker 12 Sept. 80/2 Monday night—campfire, marshmallow roast, jokes. 1990 Today's Parent Feb. (insert) 24–5 There'll also be native games, children's crafts and a marshmallow roast. marshmallow tea n. English regional an infusion of marshmallow leaves, used esp. as a remedy for rheumatism. ΚΠ 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. at Mash Mallice Mash mallice tay's the finedest thing in the wordle vor th'infermation [i.e. inflammation]. 1892 S. Hewett Peasant Speech Devon 100 Mashmally-tay is very güde vur colds in the heyde! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.adj.eOE
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