parchedadj.
/pɑːtʃt/, U.S. /pɑrtʃt/ 1. Of foodstuffs, esp. grains: dried by exposure to intense heat; roasted.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > [adjective] > roasting, roasted, or roastable > dried by roasting
parched1440
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 382 Parchyd, as pesys, or benys, fresus.
1539 Bible (Great) 1 Sam. xxv. 18 Fyue measures of parched corne.
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 93 The perched or burstled peasen..called in Northumberland carlines.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 213 The Hens in eating taste like parched Pigs.
1682 London Gaz. No. 1750/4 Fine Coffee-Powder, from 2s. 6d. to 3s. per Pound, or the Parched Berries at the same rate.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 162 I victuall'd my Ship for the Voyage, putting in..an Earthen Pot full of parch'd Rice, [etc.].
1765 T. Hutchinson Hist. Colony Massachusets-Bay, 1628–91 (ed. 2) 465 A small pouch of parched corn, ground or rather pounded into meal, and called Nuichicke, which is well enough translated Nocake.
1829 W. M. Thackeray Let. 1 Nov. (1945) I. 105 We..had a..debate on the advantage of Potatoes to the human race; some wag has asked whether the invention of parched pease has been of advantage.
1866 ‘F. Kirkland’ Bk. Anecd. 484/1 Putting his hand into his pocket and hauling out a handful of parched coffee.
1926 T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (subscribers' ed.) lxxx. 418 Ali ibn el Hussein wanted sheep and butter and parched wheat for his men and the Biasha.
2000 A. Ghosh Glass Palace (2001) x. 125 He bought several sacks of parched rice from the bazaar and recruited some half-dozen stick-wielding lathiyals to act as guards.
2.
a. Deprived of water, esp. by the sun's heat; dried up, scorched.
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the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [adjective] > dried (up) > by heat or parched
adust?a1425
parched1560
scorcheda1593
parchy1746
exusted1823
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > [adjective] > injured by heat or fire > parched
parched1560
rivelled1601
rivelled1627
retorrid1665
1560 Bible (Geneva) Jer. xvii. 6 He..shal inhabit the partched places in the wildernes.
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) v. vii. 40 To make his bleake windes kisse my parched lips, And comfort me with cold. View more context for this quotation
1663 J. Howell Poems Several Subj. 80 As the parch'd Field doth thirst for Rain.., So thirsts my Heart for Thee.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 92. ⁋2 A parched Soil and a burning Climate.
1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur Lett. from Amer. Farmer ix. 229 Examine the parched lands of the torrid zone, replete with sulphureous exhalations.
1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel vi. xxxii. 193 When, shrivelling like a parched scroll, The flaming heavens together roll.
1870 H. Macmillan Bible Teachings iv. 70 Palestine has become a parched and sterile land, on account of the disforesting of its mountains.
1904 J. Conrad Nostromo i. i. 3 Their starved and parched flesh.
1993 Observer 30 May 11/6 The rains have failed and famine stalks the beautiful parched mountains of the enclave.
b. Of a person: suffering from lack of water, longing for a drink; extremely thirsty. Also (colloquial): to have an extreme thirst for.
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1703 M. Chudleigh Song of Three Children lx. in Poems Several Occasions Quite parch'd with Thirst, they all the Land survey'd,..But wholesom Streams they no where found.
1853 C. Brontë Villette II. xxiii. 168 As good to me as the well is to the parched wayfarer.
1875 W. S. Hayward Love against World 95 I am parched with thirst.
1914 D. H. Lawrence Prussian Officer & Other Stories 14 He drank some beer because he was parched.
1977 O. Manning Danger Tree v. 112 The men longed for evening as a parched man longs for water.
1980 B. Bainbridge Winter Garden vii. 42 ‘Shall I go after them?’ he asked, peering in the direction of the vanished waiters. He was parched for a cup of tea.
Derivatives
ˈparchedly adv.
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the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [adverb] > in a parching or parched manner
parchfully1582
parchedly1598
parchingly1847
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Barrenlie, dryly, parchedly.
1958 N. Peffer Far East xxxix. 374 They thirsted as parchedly for his blood as he for theirs.
1999 Salon.com (Nexis) 9 Sept. All summer long we've been waiting for rain... Even Harvey, the bat who hides in our porch shutters, has been parchedly preserving his poop.
ˈparchedness n.
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the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [noun]
dryc1200
siccity1477
siccitude1599
parchedness1653
1653 H. More Second Lash of Alazonomastix i. 206 A waste silent Solitude, and one uniform parchednesse and vacuity.
1887 W. C. Russell Frozen Pirate II. iv. 95 A dryness and parchedness of old age.
1997 Record (Bergen County, New Jersey) (Nexis) 9 Nov. t6 Some things about Israel do not change: the awesome parchedness of the Negev Desert; the mad whirl of cultures so disparate and yet so close.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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