| 单词 | milton oyster |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMilton oyster More fully Milton oyster. Originally: an oyster from Milton. Hence: an oyster.In quot. 1845 with humorous reference to the poet Milton (see Milton n.1 2). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > shell-fish or mollusc > oyster oystereOE Colchesterc1625 green oyster1667 mangrove oyster1683 pandore1701 Milton1749 sickle-oyster1758 bluepoint1789 native1815 powldoody1819 Red Bank oyster1830 raccoon oyster1834 sauce oyster1851 Portuguese oyster1881 relay1889 Portugal oyster1890 Malpeque1901 Marennes1905 Belon1908 Olympia oyster1908 Pacific oyster1912 Whitstable1940 Portugaise1942 Olympia1961 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. xi. viii. 160 Should any daring Tongue, with unhallowed Licence prophane; i.e. depreciate the delicate fat Milton Oyster,..the prophane Wretch is struck deaf for his Impiety. View more context for this quotation 1778 Farmer's Mag. Nov. 350 Oysters hold good all the Winter..the native Milton are the whitest and fattest. 1841 W. M. Thackeray Professor ii, in Bentley's Misc. Sept. 285 Mrs. Grampus herself operated with the oyster-knife, and served the Milton morsels to the customers. 1845 ‘Bon Gaultier’ Bk. Ballads 35 Fill me once more the foaming pewter up! Another board of oysters, ladye mine! To night Lucullus with himself shall sup, These mute inglorious Miltons are divine. < as lemmas |
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