单词 | simlin |
释义 | simlinn. a. English regional (south-western). A kind of bun made with raisins; a teacake. Cf. simnel n. 1a. Obsolete.Quot. 1701, which is from a list of pronunciations regarded as characteristic of south-western English speech, may possibly illustrate sense 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > bun > [noun] bun1371 wig1376 barley-bun1552 simnel cake1699 simlin1701 muffin1703 Chelsea bun1711 cross-bun1733 hot cross bun1733 penny bun1777 Sally Lunn1780 huffkin1790 Bath-bun1801 teacake1832 English muffin1842 saffron bun1852 Belgian bun1854 Valentine-bun1854 cinnamon roll1872 lunn1874 Yorkshire teacake1877 barmbrack1878 cinnamon bun1879 sticky bun1880 pan dulce1882 schnecke1899 wad1919 tabnab1933 1701 J. White Country-man's Conductor 126 Cymlin, a Cimnel. 1871 G. P. R. Pulman Rustic Sketches (ed. 3) 138 Simlin, a kind of bun sold only at Christmas... At Axminster the ‘simlin’ was merely a common halfpenny bun with a raisin in the centre. In other places it was, and perhaps still is, a superior kind of confectionery. 1892 E. Axon Bygone Lancs. 169 In Somersetshire, ‘tea cakes’ are called Simlins. 1914 Great Eastern Railway Mag. Apr. 123/1 In Somersetshire a rich kind of tea-cake is made which is called a ‘simlin’. b. English regional (Lancashire). A type of fruit cake traditionally eaten on Mid-Lent Sunday; = simnel n. 2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > consumables > cake > [noun] molea1547 simnel1599 soul-mass cake1661 simlin1836 Haman's ears1846 Shrewsbury simnel1883 1836 E. Baines Hist. Lancaster (new ed.) II. 677 There is an ancient celebration here on Mid-Lent, or, as it is called, ‘Simbling Sunday’, when large cakes, with the name of ‘Simblings’, are sold generally in the town of Bury. 1869 E. Waugh Snowed-up ii. 36 If thae'd thy mind, thae'd dress 'em o' i' Rachda' flannel and velvet; an' feed 'em o' simblins an' port wine. 1911 Leigh Chron. 24 Mar. 5/2 Next Sunday is Simnel Sunday, an old Lancashire feast-day associated with simnels—or ‘simblins’, as they are called by the old inhabitants in this district—and mulled ale, or braggot. 2. U.S. regional. Any of several squashes; now spec. the pattypan squash. Cf. simnel n. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > fruits as vegetables > [noun] > pumpkins or squashes turquin1600 squanter-squash1634 pumpkin1647 cushaw1698 simlin1775 summer squash1801 zucca1818 summer crookneck1832 pattypan1855 trombone1946 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > fruits as vegetables > squash melon-pompion1577 simnel1640 squash1643 cushaw1698 simlin1775 squash-pumpkin1819 squash gourd1823 summer crookneck1832 melon pumpkin1840 bush gourd1842 crook-neck1844 Hubbard squash1868 mirliton1901 butternut pumpkin1916 buttercup1930 butternut1940 1775 N. Cresswell Jrnl. 5 July (1924) 95 The rest plundered about the plantation and got some young cabbages, squashes and Cimbelines. 1796 B. Hawkins Let. 2 Dec. in Georgia Hist. Soc. Coll. (1916) IX. 21 They made beans, ground peas, cymblins. 1814 H. M. Brackenridge Views Louisiana i. v. 63 Hunters tell of some curious plants on the Arkansas, amongst which are the common sun-flower, the bean, and the simblin. 1832 J. P. Kennedy Swallow Barn IV. vi. 100 Little garden-patches..where cymblings..flourished. 1885 ‘C. E. Craddock’ Prophet Great Smoky Mountains ix. 160 Ef ever thar war a empty cymblin' its yer head. 1896 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 24 July 9 Peel and slice tender young simlins. 1949 M. F. Babb & J. E. Kraus Home Veg. Gardening (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 84 The white, flattened, scalloped-edged fruits and bush-type plant of Early White Bush Scallop (Patty Pan, Cymling) squash..are familiar to everyone. 2003 E. Lewis & S. Peacock Gift Southern Cooking 138 Slice the cymling lengthwise. CompoundsΚΠ 1855 E. Waugh Sketches Lancs. Life 188 In the Rev. Wm. Gaskell's interesting lectures on the ‘Lancashire Dialect’, the following passage occurs relative to this ‘Simblin-cake’. 1878 City News Notes & Queries (Manchester) 20 Apr. 22/1 At home we had..the carling, simbling-cake, and simnel for Mothering Sunday. 1915 Food & Cookery Mar. 88/1 There are many others [in England] who still keep up this ancient custom of giving and receiving simnel (or simlin cake, as it is called in Lancashire) on the fourth Sunday in Lent. simlin-headed adj. U.S. colloquial (now rare) foolish, stupid; = pumpkin-headed adj. at pumpkin-head n. Derivatives. ΚΠ 1871 Atlanta (Georgia) Daily Sun 26 Sept. Edward Jones was a simlin-headed nigger, who owned up to being drunk. 1958 Chron. (Port Neches, Texas) 24 Dec. Anybody over 50 who smiles during the interval between getting up and drinking a cup of coffee is a hypocrite or a simlin-headed optimist. ΚΠ 1836 E. Baines Hist. Lancaster (new ed.) II. 677 There is an ancient celebration here on Mid-Lent, or, as it is called, ‘Simbling Sunday’, when large cakes, with the name of ‘Simblings’, are sold generally in the town of Bury. ?1857 J. Scholes Tim Gamwattle's Jawnt viii. 43 It wur one ov his famuly, e sed, ut furst inventud simblins, un startud Simblin Sundi. 1903 Country Life 4 Apr. p. lii/1 Mothering Sunday in Bury was called Simblin Sunday. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1701 |
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