α. 1600s–1700s 1900s– pomperkin, 1700s pompirkin, 1700s pumperkin.
β. 1700s pome-pirk.
单词 | pomperkin |
释义 | pomperkinn.α. 1600s–1700s 1900s– pomperkin, 1700s pompirkin, 1700s pumperkin. β. 1700s pome-pirk. Now historical. A weak form of cider made from apple pulp which has already been pressed; = ciderkin n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > cider > [noun] > ciderkin or small cider water cidera1450 purrec1623 pomperkin1637 water cidera1665 ciderkin1678 perkin1761 beverage1796 1637 J. Taylor Drinke & Welcome sig. A3v The sixt sort of Brittish drinkes is Pomperkin..being nothing but the Apples bruised and beaten to mash, with water put to them. a1655 H. Tubbe Poems (1915) 74 There's the Justice in a Velvet-jerkin,Wash'd with the heav'nly dewes of brave Pomperkin. 1709 W. King Orig. Wks. (1776) 143 Sanguineous animals would drink Mum, Cyder, Perry, Pumperkin, [etc.]. 1742 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Aug. xxi. 101 Pome-pirk, which they generally prefer to any of the best small Beer. 1745 W. Ellis Agric. Improv'd II. July ii. 15 The Produce of large Quantities of Cyder, and what we call Pompirkin, or Cyderkin. 1774 in P. Langford Writings & Speeches E. Burke (1981) II. 470 There only remained the dry husk of opposition; or to borrow a phrase from the cyder counties, the mere core or pulp of the apple, not worth pouring water on, and not fit to make pumperkin. 1987 P. Quarrington King Leary xxxviii. 203 I'm just having a wee nog and pomperkin. 1995 S. Schama Landscape & Memory vi. 327 He would offer an entire history and recipe for all known beverages served in the taverns of the kingdom, not just beer, ale, claret, and sack, but bragget, mead, pomperkin, and perry. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1637 |
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