oatmealn.adj.

1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 296 Leosthenes had persuaded the citee of Athenes to make warre beeyng set agog to thynke all ye worlde otemele.

1615 J. Swetnam Araignm. Lewde, Idle, Froward, & Vnconstant Women iii. 34 The worlde is not all made of otemeale, nor all is not golde that glisters.

1673 Vinegar & Must. iii. sig. A5^v Now you are come a shore, you think that the world runs on wheels, and that all the world is oatmeal.

c1639 T. Dekker & J. Ford Sun's-darling (1656) i. 4 Do mad pranck with Roaring boies and oatmeals.

1822 R. Nares Gloss. at Oat-meal No trace of this odd appellation has yet been found, except that the author of a ludicrous pamphlet has taken the name of Oliver Oat-meale.]

1927 Daily Express 2 May 7 Colours: Beige, Oatmeal, [etc.].

1961 Guardian 1 Feb. 7/5 Colours were pale green, oatmeal, navy.

1970 Observer 18 Jan. 1/8 (advt.) Both dresses in navy, deep oatmeal or kingfisher.

1993 J. Merrill Different Person xix. 234 The available postcards of the interior of Hagia Sophia were sorry affairs, retouched so that only the big gold-on-green calligraphic lunettes and hanging lamps..stood out against a dim oatmeal of pillars and bays.

1880 L. Higgin Handbk. Embroidery ii. 12 Oatcake Linen..is very coarse and rough. Oatmeal Linen is finer and of a greyer tone.

1886 Ripon Chron. 4 Sept. 2/6 New Oatmeal Cloths, in plain and fancy cream.

1957 M. B. Picken Fashion Dict. 236/1 Oatmeal cloth, soft, rough-surfaced fabric of various fibres, woven of fine warp and coarse filling threads.

1997 FS: Biogr. in alt.books (Usenet newsgroup) 2 Aug. Hutchinson's Booklover's Library No. 16 in dj, 17.7 x 11.2cm, white oatmeal cloth, 288pp + 4pp adverts, slight foxing to fep.

1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 28 Jan. 9/1 Dress of oatmeal cream, with bonnets to match.

1935 A. Christie Three Act Trag. iii. ix. 188 The room..had walls of a rather drab oatmeal colour.

1963 Times 27 Feb. 12/5 Contrasting cravats of silk or organza set off soft oatmeal or sand tones, pale tilleul greens, navy, black, off-white.

1973 ‘R. MacLeod’ Burial in Portugal iii. 69 An oatmeal sports coat.

1995 Menz Mar. 35 (advt.) Oatmeal coloured hopsack shirt jacket, $250.

1876 Scribner's Monthly Feb. 469/2 In the ‘hard winter’ of 1779–80..oatmeal biscuits were counted out to the British troops.

1935 Lady Sysonby Cook Bk. 205 Oatmeal biscuits (sweet)... Mix oatmeal and flour and salt [etc.].

1980 I. Murdoch Nuns & Soldiers i. 72 He had laid out..two pieces of cheese..,two tomatoes, four oatmeal biscuits..and a small bit of fruitcake.

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 232 The scots..are attached..to their oat-meal bread; which is presented at every table, in thin triangular cakes.

1914 J. P. Howard Charles Stewart Parnell ii. i. 178 He had toast, usually of oatmeal bread, and very often barberry jelly.

1974 R. B. Parker God save Child (1975) xii. 86 He put a plate of sliced turkey..and a loaf of oatmeal bread on the table.

1771 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. Housekeeper (ed. 2) App. 375 To make Oatmeal Flummery.

1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor xiii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. II. 304 An ample breakfast..cold meat and hot meat, and oatmeal flummery, wine and spirits, and milk.

1927 American Cookery 32 32/1 Oatmeal Flummery..should be jellied, and makes a dainty form of breakfast cereal in warm weather.

1611 Closet for Ladies & Gentlewomen 134 Oatemeale grotes soked in vineger.

a1697 J. Aubrey Nat. Hist. Wilts. (Bodl. MS Aubrey 1) f. 107 The taylers wife..made a Pultesse of Pigges-parseley stampt, with oatemeale grutts: and tooke off the Swelling in a very short time.

1973 C. A. Wilson Food & Drink in Brit. viii. 315 The breadcrumbs might be replaced with oatmeal groats..or with rice, which was steeped in new milk overnight and then mixed with cream, egg yolks and the usual spices and fruits.

1597 W. Langham Garden of Health 457 Throte squincy..vse Otemeale grewell well sifted.

1776 T. Percival Ess. Med. & Exper. III. 258 The children breakfasted of nettle-pottage, that is, oatmeal gruel with fresh nettles boiled in it.

1877 Spirit of Times 24 Nov. 447/2 Linseed tea or oatmeal gruel, very thin,..will, if given two or three times a day, have a beneficial effect.

1994 Afr. Amer. Rev. 28 467/2 Von Scheven's oatmeal gruel and brandy were found to be laced with arsenic.

1592 in F. G. Emmison Wills at Chelmsford (1958) (modernized text) i. 192 Hall, Harry, oatmeal man, Widford.

1649 W. Blith Eng. Improver xiv. 81 For these Crops, being but of Oates, I could have had five pound an Acre, being offered it by an Oate-meale-man.

1665 in R. E. C. Waters Parish Registers Eng. (1883) 69 Cecily Grosse, an Anabaptist, the wife of J. Grosse, oatmealman.

1725 in Index Bedfordshire Probate Rec. (1993) i. 167 John Cotching, Eversholt, oatmealman.

1757 in Index Bedfordshire Probate Rec. (1994) ii. 623 Robert Studdes, senior, Health and Reach, oatmealman.

1675 R. Wynne Will 10 July in William & Mary Coll. Q. Hist. Mag. (1934) 14 249 To my son Joshua Wynne one house and Oatmeal mill.

1902 N.E.D. at Oatmeal Oatmeal mill.

1931 M. H. Spielmann et al. Hugh Thomson i. 17 The same friend in telling how he had drawn the Ballymena Oatmeal mill says: ‘Hugh put in a splendid horse and cart in front of it’.

1764 J. Boswell Grand Tour 17 Sept. (1953) 95 I breakfasted..on Scots oatmeal porrage and English porter.

1882 ‘M. Harland’ Eve's Daughters ii. 24 The most useful milk-producing ingredients are..good broths, milk, really excellent ale, oatmeal porridge and cream.

1990 Sunday Express Mag. 7 Jan. 40/3 Fuel up on your day with a hearty Scottish breakfast: oatmeal porridge, followed by eggs, bacon, venison sausages.

1723 J. Nott Cook's & Confectioner's Dict. sig. U6^v Oatmeal pudding, Mix..Oatmeal..with..Cream,..boil..; beat..Eggs..; put in..Sugar, Salt, Nutmeg, and Cinnamon; then melt..butter .

1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 550/1 Mealy Pudding, an oatmeal pudding which is served with grilled sausages, bacon, herrings, etc.

1984 R. Perry et al. Mothering the Mind 41 In his journal he even preserved some favorite recipes for pancakes and oatmeal pudding.

1926–7 Army & Navy Stores Catal. 64/1 Oatmeal Stout (recommended for its tonic properties) doz. 9/-.

1976 J. B. Hilton Gamekeeper's Gallows iii. 26 If he wins, he always takes it [sc. a rabbit] a bottle of oatmeal stout home.

1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 431. ⁋3 I desire you would find out some Name for these craving Damsels,..Trash-eaters, Oatmeal-chewers, Pipe-champers, Chalk-lickers [etc.].

1694 T. D'Urfey Don Quixote ii. iv. i. 36 Where, is't now, ye blind Oatmeal-eater.

1767 A. Campbell Lexiphanes 36 Professions..of everlasting amity, past now between the Cow-killer and Oat-meal-eater.

1845 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 302/2 You won't pity us, Scotch oatmeal-eaters, any more.

1987 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 14 Oct. iv. 1/2 New flavors [of Quaker oatmeal]..have also attracted new oatmeal eaters.

1455 in F. Collins Reg. Freemen York (1897) I. 175 (MED) Will. Barnard, otemelemaker.

1576 in Beverley Borough Recs. (1933) 5 No otemeall maker..shall..send to..Hull above one quarter of otemeal on the Market Day there.

1720 London Gaz. No. 5882/3 Thomas Cozens,..Oatmeal maker.

1876 J. D. McCabe Illustr. Hist. Centennial Exhib. 482 On the opposite side..the macaroni and oatmeal makers exhibit their goods.

1594 J. Lyly Mother Bombie v. iii. sig. H4 And you oatemeale groate, you were acquainted with this plot.

1850 C. E. Beecher Miss Beecher's Domest. Receipt-bk. 115 Oat Meal Mush. This is made just like Indian mush, and is called Bourgoo.

1883 H. P. Spofford in Harper's Mag. Aug. 465/1 You've been the means of starving me..on oatmeal mush.

1989 D. H. Fischer Albion's Seed 729 But this was merely a change from oatmeal mush to cornmeal mush, or ‘grits’ as it was called in the southern highlands.

a1525 Coventry Leet Bk. 400 [A tallow-chaundler's assize] is that selleth Otemele sope & other diuerse Chaffers.

1890–1 T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Fall–Winter 42 Colgate's soaps—oatmeal, [etc.].

2001 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Nexis) 18 July 2 Washing with oatmeal soap can speed the healing process.

1858 F. B. von Seckendorf Jrnl. Secret in T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. ix. xi. 538 The King begins to bring up phlegm; drinks a great deal of oatmeal-water.

1875 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 38 30 He had known a good many working men..who had worked upon oatmeal water.

1986 M. Hughes Blaine's Way (1989) ii. 36 Go ask your Mom for a pail of salted oatmeal water. We're spit dry after that.