| 单词 | pan-loaf | 
| 释义 | pan-loafn.adj. Chiefly Scottish.  A. n.   A loaf baked in a pan or tin, having a hard, smooth crust; a tin-loaf. Also: bread in the form of such a loaf. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > loaf > 			[noun]		 > pan- or tin-loaf tinned loafc950 brick1698 brick loaf1723 brick bread1762 pan-loaf1846 pan bread1856 tin-loaf1858 tin1957 pan1978 1846    Milwaukee 		(Wisconsin Territory)	 Daily Courier 28 Apr.  				Washington's breakfast bread,..baked in a pan like an ordinary pan loaf, is also very good. 1856    Chambers's Information for People 		(new ed.)	 I. 768/2  				Take a slice or two of a stale pan-loaf, cut half an inch thick. 1887    A. D. Willock Rosetty Ends ii. 10  				He lat drive at Simpson's head wi' a pan-loaf. 1907    J. Kirkland Mod. Baker I. 112  				Tin or Pan Loaves... Scotch pan loaves..are generally baked four in a pan, and to ensure that they separate with a smooth face each loaf is greased on the ends before being placed in the tin. 1922    J. Joyce Ulysses  ii. vii. [Aeolus] 139  				They buy..four slices of panloaf at the north city dining rooms in Marlborough street. 1957    Bulletin 		(Glasgow)	 25 Feb. 11/2  				Pan loaves are coming back into favour again. 2001    J. Boyle Galloway Street 65  				Usually it's just up to Galbraith's at the corner for a sliced pan loaf or round to Jimmy Canning's general store for totties or turnips.  B. adj.   Scottish colloquial. Of a person, manner of speaking, etc.: affectedly refined or cultivated, pretentious. Cf. pan-loafy adj.This usage apparently originated in the fact that a pan-loaf, being more expensive than a plain loaf, was considered a sign of affluence. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > 			[adjective]		 > affected or mincing > of speech minced?1542 haw-haw1841 plummy1881 cultivated1908 pan-loafy1946 pan-loaf1947 1947    H. W. Pryde 1st Bk. McFlannels vi. 61  				An' yer pan-loaf talk! ‘Good-marning, Mrs. McTweed,’ says you, ‘fehn weather we're heving for this tehm of the year!’ 1964    Weekly Scotsman 16 June 8  				Ah dinna like her, she's oafy pan loaf. 1973    E. Boyd  & R. Parkes Dark Number v. 58  				Him and his fancy clothes and his pan-loaf accent and his money! Why couldn't he stay on his own side of the tracks? 1974    New Society 28 Feb. 500/3  				It was the authentic voice of the people of Glasgow.., and not the ‘pan-loaf’ (falsely polished) accents of the Scottish BBC. 2001    Sunday Herald 		(Glasgow)	 11 Nov. (Seven Days section) 10/2  				If she dropped the parochial Morningside background and the pan-loaf Scotticisms, her sales would double. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  | 
	
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