单词 | moufful |
释义 | mouffuln. Originally U.S. regional (chiefly in African-American usage). A mouthful. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > amounts of food > [noun] > small quantity breadeOE crumbc975 snedec1000 snodec1150 morselc1300 swallow1340 modicumc1400 mouthful?c1450 tasting1526 taste1530 buckone1625 morceau1778 rive1793 nibble?1828 munchet1845 moufful1896 niblet1896 snade1901 nugget1951 nibbly1978 1896 J. C. Harris in Scribner's Mag. Apr. 494 When I didn't have a mouffle to eat nor a place to lay my head. 1909 Dial. Notes 3 350 Mouf, mouth: a negroism rapidly gaining ground among the whites, especially in the derivatives, as mouffle (mouthful). 1935 Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men i. ii. 46 He couldn't hardly make a moufful offa de li'l bread he had. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1896 |
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