单词 | plottie |
释义 | plottien. Scottish. Now rare. A hot drink made of wine or spirits mixed with water and spices. ΚΠ 1735 W. Mitchel Occasional Tinclarian 17 I did nothing but spent my Time in Plotties with my Neighbours, the Bow-Wives. 1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 386 I'm awa' into the spence, to mak some plotty. 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well III. ii. 41 Your plottie is excellent, ever since I taught you to mix the spices in the right proportion. a1843 J. Stewart Sketches Sc. Char. (1857) 114 Arise, an' tak' your morning plotty. 1906 Chambers's Jrnl. 27 Jan. 131 Rounds of beef, turkeys, and jeelies, washed down by an abominable compound of port wine negus called ‘plottie’. 1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 237 Plottie, a tasty hot drink, made of spices, sugar, etc. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1735 |
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