| 单词 | potato skin |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspotato skin potato skin n. (a) the outer skin of a potato, potato peel (in early use also as the type of something worthless); (b) (in plural) any of various dishes consisting of pieces of cooked potato skin with most of the flesh removed, esp. when deep-fried and filled or served with dips. ΚΠ 1799 D. Tracy Let. to Mr. Denis Feagan 7 Never considering or caring to the value of a potatoe skin how it might touch the like of us. 1817 M. Edgeworth Ormond in Harrington & Ormond II. xii. 251 I should not like it—not that I mind what people say a potato skin. 1894 E. Œ. Somerville & ‘M. Ross’ Real Charlotte III. xxxiv. 1 The sweeping of out-lying potato-skins and cinders into a chasm beneath the..hearth. 1968 Daily Times-News (Burlington, N. Carolina) 5 Jan. 10/3 The menus include..broiled lobster tail and crisp potato skins. 1992 P. McCabe Butcher Boy (1993) 125 Every day I'd collect my brock cart..and off I'd go round the houses and hotels gathering scraps of potato skins and rotten food. 2003 Metro 14 Oct. (London ed.) 22/2 Food: Mini-burgers, potato skins, fish and chips and dim sum. < as lemmas |
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