| 单词 | singing hinny |
| 释义 | > as lemmassinging hinny singing hinny n. (Northern dialect). A kind of cake which emits a hissing sound while cooking on a girdle. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > griddle cake hot cake1683 griddle-cake1783 flannel-cake1792 slapjack1805 knead-cake1810 singing hinny1825 Welsh cake1867 tough-cake1881 1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Singin or Singing-hinny, a kneaded spice cake baked on the girdle; indispensable in a pitman's family. 1832 W. Stephenson Coll. Local Poems, Songs, &c. 27 Ma canny bairns come get your tea, I've made a singing hinny. 1855 J. R. Leifchild Cornwall: Mines & Miners 283 The Cornish cottage has no ‘singing hinnies’, or rich girdle cakes. 1863 E. C. Gaskell Sylvia's Lovers I. iv. 63 Neither cream nor finest wheaten flour was wanting for ‘turf-cakes’ and ‘singing-hinnies’. < as lemmas |
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