单词 | paste egg |
释义 | paste eggn. Chiefly English regional (northern) and historical. = pasch egg n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > eggs > [noun] > Easter egg Easter egga1572 paste egg1611 pasch egg1677 paschal egg1844 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Pasque Oeufs de Pasques, Paste-egges. 1777 J. Brand Observ. Pop. Antiq. 310 Of Pasche, or as they are commonly called, Paste Eggs. 1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Paste-eggs. 1875 E. Tweddell Rhymes Cleveland Dial. 2 On Heeaster Sunda' we've Peeast Eggs. 1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. 93/2 Paste-Eggs (or peeace-eggs), hard-boiled eggs..stained in divers colours, distributed among the children on Pase-Egg Day. 1996 Church Times 24 May 10/4 Paste-egg Day was Easter Sunday, when hardboiled eggs, coloured with onion skins and spring flowers, were..bowled down a bank. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1611 |
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