单词 | pummy |
释义 | pummyn. 1. a. Chiefly English regional (southern and East Anglian) and Newfoundland. = pomace n. 2b. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > types of softness > [noun] > pulpiness or mushiness > pulp pomace1555 mash1598 mummy1601 pulp1633 pomate1699 pulpament1699 pummy1754 mush1824 pash1825 smush1825 1754 P. Bradshaw Family Jewel (ed. 7) 7 Wash your currants, put them into your Pan, and mash them; then put in a little Water and boil them to a Pummy. 1844 W. Barnes Poems Rural Life in Dorset Dial. 78 Gi'en vo'ke a drashen, An breaken buones, an' beaten heads to pummy. 1850 J. Weir Long Powers i. 181 Before his friends could come to his relief, I had beaten him to a pummy. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxi. 5 I shall be churned into a pummy. 1903 H. Gosselin in Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 575/2 [Hertfordshire] We must dig deeper there, sir, it's all of a pummy like. 1924 G. A. England Vikings of Ice 225 The [seal] skins now began ‘running to oil’, and the fat ‘goin' to pummy’, which is to say, getting very ripe and degenerating to a nauseous mess. b. North American regional. = pomace n. 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > syrup > [noun] > in sugar manufacture > juice of sugar cane > dregs or refuse of trash1707 dunder1774 cane trash1790 sugar-wash1812 bagasse1833 megass1833 dabs1858 pummy1877 1877 H. Ruede Let. 23 Sept. in Sod-house Days (1937) 152 He was very much amused to hear the folks talk about ‘them molasses’ and being told to ‘take away them pummies’ (pomace—crushed cane.) 1938 C. H. Matschat Suwannee River 133 ‘Pummy’—cane pulp—fell from the other side of the mill. 1980 R. Anderson in Dict. Newfoundland Eng. (1982) 395/2 Worthless potatoes are sometimes used to make pummy, ‘mashed up’ as one stage in preparing starch. 1993 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. IV. 257/2 I came upon his use of pommey, which he defines as ‘mashed sugar cane’ produced in the process of making cane syrup. 2. = pomace n. 3. Now English regional (west midlands and south-western) and North American regional. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > cider-making > [noun] > apple pulp pomace1572 apple pomace1664 cider-pressings1664 must1670 cider-marc1676 pug1676 pouse1704 pressing1707 apple cheese1708 pommagec1769 pummy1843 1843 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 4 383 The pommey (that is, the pulp after it has been pressed) will generally contain a large number of entire seeds. 1865 J. Buckman Sci. & Pract. in Farm Cultiv. vii. l. 348 In Dorsetshire the ground pulp or ‘pummy’ is usually put upon a flat stage between layers of straw. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Pummy, ground apples, in process of cider making. Always so called before the juice is expressed; and the same word is applied to the refuse when pressed dry; this latter is, however, sometimes called cider-muck. 1953 Mansfield (Ohio) News-Jrnl. 11 Oct. 20/4 The cider is squeezed through a muslin screen with the trays of remaining pummies (pulp and peel) removed by hand. 1974 W. Leeds Herefordshire Speech 89 Pommey, pulp. In cider-making = apples crushed to a pulp for the extraction of the juice. 1996 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 20 Sept. 17 Her job was to spread the ‘pummy’ as it came from the choppers, leveling it so the presscloths could be filled. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1754 |
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