Shrewsburyn.
/ˈʃruːzb(ə)ri/, /ˈʃrəʊzb(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈʃruzˌbɛri/, /ˈʃruzb(ə)ri/ 1. Used as the specific appellation of articles manufactured in Shrewsbury. Shrewsbury cake: a flat round crisp biscuit-like cake. Shrewsbury simnel: see simnel n. 2.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > other cakes
honey appleeOE
barley-cake1393
seed cakea1400
cake?a1425
pudding-cake?1553
manchet1562
biscuit cake1593
placent1598
poplin1600
jumbal1615
bread pudding1623
semel1643
wine-cakea1661
Shrewsbury cake1670
curd cake1675
fruitcake1687
clap-bread1691
simnel cake1699
orange-flower cake1718
banana cake1726
sweet-cake1726
torte1748
Naples cake1766
Bath cake1769
gofer1769
yeast-cake1795
nutcake1801
tipsy-cake1806
cruller1808
baba1813
lady's finger1818
coconut cake1824
mint cake1825
sices1825
cup-cake1828
batter-cake1830
buckwheat1830
Dundee seed cake1833
fat-cake1839
babka1846
wonder1848
popover1850
cream-cake1855
sly-cake1855
dripping-cake1857
lard-cake1858
puffet1860
quick cake1865
barnbrack1867
matrimony cake1871
brioche1873
Nelson cake1877
cocoa cake1883
sesame cake1883
marinade1888
mystery1889
oblietjie1890
stuffed monkey1892
Greek bread1893
Battenberg1903
Oswego cake1907
nusstorte1911
dump cake1912
Dobos Torte1915
lekach1918
buckle1935
Florentine1936
hash cake1967
space cake1984
society > faith > artefacts > consumables > cake > [noun]
molea1547
simnel1599
soul-mass cake1661
simlin1836
Haman's ears1846
Shrewsbury simnel1883
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > cake for specific occasion > mid-Lent
simnel1599
simnel cake1699
Shrewsbury simnel1883
1670 J. Beale Let. 15 Mar. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1969) VI. 560 Ye Art of making..Shrewsbury Cakes, Bread of all sorts &c.
1728 E. Smith Compl. Housewife (ed. 2) 129 To make Shrewsbury-Cakes.
1831 Lincoln Herald 7 Oct. 4/4 Gingerbread buttons and Shrewsbury cakes.
1842 R. H. Barham Bloudie Jacke in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 178 She has given him..a Shrewsbury cake, Of Pailin's own make.
1844 Ladies' Hand-bk. Haberdashery 45 White or broad Reel-thread, Scotch Thread, Shrewsbury Thread.
1883 C. S. Burne Shropshire Folk-lore 325 ‘Shrewsbury Simnels’..are eaten by many who do not heed the pious habit of ‘mothering’ which they were intended to celebrate.
2. In phrases. by Shrewsbury clock: added (in allusion to quot. 1598) to statements of duration as a proverbial phrase, esp. to indicate exaggeration; as exact (or regular) as Shrewsbury clock: very exact or regular.
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1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 v. iv. 145 We rose both at an instant, and fought a long houre by Shrewesburie clocke. View more context for this quotation]
1681 W. Winstanley Poor Robin sig. A7/2 A great many people shall feed (according as Sir John Falstaffe used to sight) three hours together by Shrewsbury Clock.
1784 H. Cowley More Ways than One i. i. 1 My master is as exact as Shrewsbury clock.
1796 J. White Orig. Lett. Sir John Falstaff 17 Fifteen minutes, as thou say'st, by Shrewsbury clock.
1835 J. Kincaid Random Shots from Rifleman xiii. 332 Sir Arthur, in all his movements for twenty years, had been as regular as Shrewsbury clock.
1891 R. L. Stevenson Let. in Wks. (1923) XXII. xi. 386 I remember, when I first saw this, laughing for an hour by Shrewsbury clock.
1901 G. B. Shaw Admirable Bashville iii. 324 On the impenetrable sarcolobe That holds his seedling brain these fists have pounded By Shrewsb'ry clock an hour.
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