单词 | belly sweetbread |
释义 | > as lemmasbelly sweetbread 1. The pancreas, or the thymus gland, of an animal, esp. as used for food (distinguished respectively as heart sweetbread, stomach sweetbread, or belly sweetbread and throat sweetbread, gullet sweetbread, or neck sweetbread): esteemed a delicacy. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > part or joint of animal > [noun] > glands liverOE kidneyc1325 rys lumbard?c1390 fee14.. sweetbread1565 burr1573 gut-bread1893 miltz1909 prairie oyster1941 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Animellæ, the sweete breade in a hogge. 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man vii. f. 90 A certaine Glandulous part, called Thimus, which in Calues..is most pleasaunt to be eaten. I suppose we call it the sweete bread. 1598 G. Chapman tr. Homer Seauen Bks. Iliades i. 458 [They] Cut off their thighes dubd with the fatte,..And pricke the sweetebreads thereupon. 1615 T. Overbury et al. New & Choise Characters with Wife (6th impr.) sig. Kv For an inward bruse, Lambe-stones and sweetbreads are his only Sperma Ceti. 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures (1663) xxx. 121 Some sell their pigs, and some again sell nothing but the chitterlings, the sweet-breads, the blood, and the haslets. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1778 II. 258 He gave her her choice of a chicken, [or] a sweetbread. 1797–8 C. Lamb Rosamund Gray xi, in Wks. (1903) I. 26 I ordered my dinner—green peas and a sweetbread. 1824 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1825) 281 We've gullet-sweetbreads, veined with red. 1846 A. Soyer Gastron. Regenerator 681 If I cannot meet with heart sweetbreads, I in general satisfy myself with the throats. 1884 G. Allen Philistia III. 156 Oysters, game, sweetbreads, red mullet, any little delicacy of that sort. < as lemmas |
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