单词 | mince pie |
释义 | mince pien. 1. a. A savoury pie containing minced meat, esp. beef; a meat pie. Now chiefly Scottish and New Zealand. ΚΠ 1573 C. Hollyband French Schoole-maister 94 O Lorde, he hath supped up all the brothe of this mince pie. 1768 T. Hull Royal Merchant iii. ii. 48 Hig. Oh the pies! the piping hot mince pies! Prig. The fine fat poultry! 1861 O. W. Holmes Elsie Venner vii. 74 A mince pie,—or meat pie, as it is more forcibly called in the..villages. 1902 E. W. Kirk Tried Favourites Cookery Bk. 55 Entrees—Mince Pie. Half cook mince and season it with salt and pepper. 1996 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Electronic ed.) 26 Mar. There have been fears over Scotch pies but bakers are reminding the public the meat used is mutton, not beef. Glasgow butcher Charles Kidd said: ‘There are, of course, mince pies and steak pies—but a plain, ordinary pie is made from mutton.’ 2000 Waikato Times (Hamilton, N.Z.) (Electronic ed.) 16 June There's more meat in this pie than in three or four mince pies you'd buy in a shop. b. A pie or tart containing mincemeat (see mincemeat n. 1b), usually one eaten during the Christmas season and (in North America) at Thanksgiving.In Britain, the pies are now usually small, round covered tarts; elsewhere they are often traditionally larger. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > pie > [noun] > Christmas mince-pie Christmas pie1565 plum pie1589 nativity pie1602 mince pie1604 minced pie1607 society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > specific festivities > [noun] > festivities associated with Christmas > articles associated with hollyc1150 Christmas lights1597 mince pie1604 Christmas puddingc1650 Christmas present1663 Christmas gift1751 Christmas decoration1818 Christmas tree1826 tree1851 wesley-bob1859 Christmas card1860 bauble1862 Advent calendar1867 α. β. 1846 M. A. Richardson Local Historian's Table Bk. Legendary Div. III. 377 'Tis I that's to..send thee to Satan to make minch Pies.1889 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (ed. 2) Minch-pie, a mince-pie. It is said that mince-pies and minch-pies are not quite the same. Minch-pies, we are told, have meat in their composition; mince-pies have not.1604 T. Dekker Newes from Graues-end Ep. Ded. sig. B3 Ten thousand in London swore to feast their neighbors with nothing but plum-porredge, and mince-pyes all Christmas. 1662 S. Pepys Diary 6 Jan. (1970) III. 4 We have, besides a good chine of beef and other good cheer, eighteen mince-pies in a dish, the number of the years that he hath been married. 1673 T. Shadwell Epsom-Wells iv, in Wks. (1720) II. 247 For currants to make mince-pyes with. 1712 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 2 Jan. (1948) II. 453 I see nothing here like Christmas, except brawn or mincepies in places where I dine. 1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery ix. 116 Lent Mince Pies. 1807 R. Southey Lett. from Eng. III. 384 Old bridges dangerously narrow, and angles in them like the corners of an English mince-pie, for the foot-passengers to take shelter in. 1864 S. Parr in R. Chambers Bk. of Days II. 755/2 Please to say Christmas-pie, not mince-pie; mince-pie is puritanical. 1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset I. xix. 167 There was roast pork and mince-pies, and a bottle of wine. 1894 G. Du Maurier Trilby I. 239 The pieces of resistance and plum-pudding and mince-pies. 1905 Eng. Dial. Dict. Suppl. Petty pon, a small, round, earthenware pan in which mince-pies and other tarts are baked. 1973 People's Jrnl. 15 Dec. (Inverness & Northern Counties ed.) 4/5 My family would eat mince pies to a band playing so long as there's at least a smidgeon of rum butter to wipe over the top crust. 1992 Voice 22 Dec. 10/3 Knocking back some overproof rum is for some as much a feature of Christmas as munching mince pies. ΚΠ 1756 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 435 The gardens..laid out in the old-fashioned way of mince-pies, arbours, and sugarloaf yews. 3. [Rhyming slang.] British. An eye. Usually in plural. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [noun] eyeeOE the fleshly eyec1175 balla1400 window1481 glazier1567 light1580 crystal1592 orb1594 glass1597 optic1601 twinkler1605 lampa1616 watchera1616 wink-a-peeps1615 visive organa1652 ogle1673 peeper1691 goggle?1705 visual orb1725 orbit1727 winker1734 peep?1738 daylights?1747 eyewinker1808 keeker1808 glimmer1814 blinker1816 glim1820 goggler1821 skylight1824 ocular1825 mince pie1857 saucer1858 mince1937 1857 ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue 13 Mince pies, eyes. 1858 A. Mayhew Paved with Gold 169 Wait till I've togged my ‘round-the-houses’, and then I'll cook your ‘mince pies’ for you. 1892 Sporting Times 29 Oct. 1/2 And I smiled as I closed my two mince-pies. 1893 J. Crook & B. Daly Jerusalem's Dead (song) 5 My mince-pies are waterin' jes like a pump. 1906 E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands xvii. 229 He thinks he'll never be able t' shut his mince pies again. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiv. [Oxen of the Sun] 404 Got a prime pair of mincepies, no kid. 1934 John o' London's Weekly 9 June 353/1 I 'as my ocean wave an' when I've got my mince-pie properly open I goes down the apples and pears. 1989 Grocer 4 Nov. 16/2 (advt.) Flabbergasted grocer, George Gimpson, couldn't believe his mince pies when an alien beamed into his shop. Compounds General attributive. ΚΠ 1600 S. Rowlands Letting of Humors Blood Epigram viii. sig. A7v He liues not like Diogines on Rootes: But proues a Mince-pie guest vnto his Host. 1783 W. Wilberforce in R. I. Wilberforce & S. Wilberforce Life W. Wilberforce (1838) i. 48 ‘So your friend Mr. Pitt means to come in,’ said Mrs. Crewe: ‘Well, he may do what he likes during the holidays, but it will only be a mince-pie administration, depend upon it.’ 1857 D. H. Strother Virginia Illustr. 69 It happens sometimes during the mince-pie season that Fanny enters the kitchen. 1881 W. O. Stoddard Esau Hardery 218 The general prosperity suggested liberal preparations for what the same worthy described as ‘our mince-pie fast’. 1906 Month Jan. 35 Pitt's ‘mince-pie’ Administrations, as they were sarcastically called. 1987 Steam Railway News 16–23 Oct. 2/1 Mince Pie Specials over the New Year period can provide warm, under cover entertainment to those looking for something to do in the empty period immediately following Boxing Day. DerivativesΚΠ 1600 S. Rowlands Letting of Humors Blood Epigram ii. sig. A4v Or Mince-pie-like Ile mangle out the slaue. 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