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单词 mauby
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maubyn.

Brit. /ˈmɔːbi/, U.S. /ˈmɔbi/, /ˈmɑbi/, Caribbean English /ˈmɔːbi/, /ˈmaːbi/
Forms: 1700s 1900s– mauby, 1800s– maubee, 1800s– maubi, 1900s– mawby.
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: mobbie n.
Etymology: Originally a variant of mobbie n., now usually distinguished in form in the senses below.In early instances the precise sense can be difficult to determine.
Caribbean.
1. A non-alcoholic drink made by fermenting or boiling the bark of trees of the genus Colubrina (family Rhamnaceae), esp. C. elliptica. Cf. mobbie n. 1.
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the world > food and drink > drink > decoction > [noun] > of herbs, seeds, or bark
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1790 J. B. Moreton Manners & Customs West India Islands 105 Cool drink or mauby is a delicious nectar to them in the morning.
1866 R. Duff Brit. Guiana xi. 257 Maubee is made by mixing maubee bark (simiruba) with an equal part of lignumvitæ bark.., and then pouring boiling water on the mixture.
a1932 A. R. F. Webber Those that be in Bondage 88 Harold hunted for the good things that had been stowed aboard; thin rusks of cassava bread..rich biting sorrel drink: soft sparkling maubee; [etc.].
1957 I. Bayley in F. A. Collymore Notes for Gloss. Words & Phr. Barbadian Dial. 56 Mauby is made from bark, boiled in water for about an hour, and concentrated to a basic extract. When making the drink, some of the stock is diluted with water; sugar and vanilla essence are added... The result is a bitter-sweet drink, with a frothy head, popular for quenching the thirst, and for ‘cooling’ the blood.
1962 Listener 16 Aug. 248/2 A man stands beside his handcart dispensing mawby or snowball.
1969 S. M. Sadeek Windswept 25 He drank, at first sipping the tall mauby slowly.
1973 Advocate-News (Barbados) 15 Dec. 8/1 In short, it is like serving mauby and ginger beer in a cocktail glass.
1991 D. Dabydeen Intended (1992) 40 Peter came up, went to the bar, ordered a penny mauby.
2. More fully mauby bark. The bark from which this drink is made.
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1866 R. Duff Brit. Guiana xi. 257 Maubee is made by mixing maubee bark (simiruba) with an equal part of lignumvitæ bark.., and then pouring boiling water on the mixture.
1968 E. Lovelace Schoolmaster i. 8 Fruit wines from cashew and guava, and sorrel and mauby.
1983 Y. Cools-Lartigue Art Caribbean Cooking 17 Place mawby bark and bay leaves into large saucepan and cover with about 8 cups cold water.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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