spinachn.

Brit.

/ˈspɪnɪtʃ/,

/ˈspɪnɪdʒ/, U.S.

/ˈspɪnɪtʃ/

Forms: α. Middle English (transmission error) spinogre, 1500s spynnage, spenege, 1600s–1800s spinnage, 1500s–1800s spinage. β. 1500s spynache, spinech, 1500s–1600s spinache, 1500s– spinach.

Etymology: < Old French espinage, (e)spinache (also -ace), = Catalan espinach, Spanish espinaca, Italian spinace, Romanian spenac, medieval Latin spinachia (-achium), spinacia (-acium), of doubtful origin. Compare Middle Dutch spinage, -agie, -aetse (Dutch spinazie, Flemish spinagie), Low German spinase, -axe, obsolete German spinacie, -asche, German dialect spinaz, Middle High German and German spinat (whence Danish spinat, Swedish spenat). The difficult problem of the ultimate origin of the word is complicated by variation of the ending in the Romanic languages. In addition to espinache, -age, Old French had also espinoche (still in dialect use), -oce, = medieval Latin spinochia, and espinarde, espinar (French épinard), = Provençal espinarc, medieval Latin spinarium, -argium. Portuguese exhibits the further variant espinafre. By older writers the stem of these forms was supposed to be Latin spīna, in allusion to the prickly seeds of a common species. De Vic considers the various forms to be adoption of Arab isfināj, Persian isfānāj, ispānāk, aspanākh (Richardson), but it is doubtful whether these are really native words. It is difficult to explain either the Romanic or the Middle Eastern forms from the synonymous Hispanicum olus recorded from the 16th cent. and represented by older French herbe d'Espaigne (Cotgrave).

a. A plant ( Spinacia oleracea) belonging to the N.O. Chenopodiaceæ, extensively cultivated for culinary purposes; the succulent leaves of this plant used as a vegetable.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > leaf vegetables > [noun] > spinach

spinacha1400

New Zealand spinach1822

palak1868

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > leaf vegetables > spinach

spinacha1400

New Zealand spinach1822

α.

a1400 Sloane MS. No. 5 f. 12/1 Spinatea... G[allice] spinache, A[nglice] Spinogre.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 274 Spynnage an herbe, espinars.

1568 W. Turner Herbal iii. 71 Spinage or spinech is an herbe lately found and not long in use.

1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso (1674) i. xvi. 18 Gardners might know Nettles and Henbane, from Spinnage and Lettice.

1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet i. 249 Spinage, emollient, but not very nourishing.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 4 The grass has the appearance of boiled spinage.

1808 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 19 38 Neither boiled spinage, nor succory, possess this quality.

1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. ii. iii. 623 Some are used as pot-herbs, as Spinage.

β. 1538 W. Turner Libellus de re Herbaria at Sevtlomalochon A nostris spynache nominatur. 1568 [see α. ]. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 556 This pot-herbe, or rather Salet herbe, is called..Spinache.1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ iii. xxii. 433 Spinach..is used in sallads,..and helps inflamations..of the Stomach.1755 J. Wesley Primitive Physick (ed. 5) 69 Eat largely of Spinach.1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1773 I. 394 We had a very good soup, a boiled leg of lamb and spinach.1840 R. H. Barham Lay St. Dunstan in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 230 St. Dunstan himself sits there..eating poach'd eggs with spinach and toast.1883 Cassell's Family Mag. Sept. 593 The winter spinach must next be thinned out.

b. With distinguishing epithets denoting varieties of the common garden spinach.

ΚΠ

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique ii. xix. 226 Spinage (so called bicause his seede is prickly) is of two sorts, the male and the female.

1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Spinachia The common prickly or narrow-leav'd Spinach.

1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Spinachia Common smooth-seeded Spinach.

1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Spinachia These Male Plants are by the Gardeners commonly called She Spinach.

1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry IV. 89 The oblong oval leaved spinage, commonly called plantain spinage.

1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 656 There are three varieties, the round-seeded,..the Flanders spinach,..and the prickly-seeded, or common winter spinach.

2. elliptical. As a moth-name.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Geometridae > spinach

spinach1832

1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 123 The Spinach (E. Spinachiata, Stephens) appears in July.

1896 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. VI. 117 The little moth..known as the dark spinach (Larentia chenopodiata).

3. Nonsense, rubbish. U.S. colloquial (now rare). Cf. earlier gammon and spinach at gammon n.⁴ and int. Phrases 3.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun]

magged talea1387

moonshine1468

trumperyc1485

foolishness1531

trash1542

baggage1545

flim-flam1570

gear1570

rubbisha1576

fiddle-faddle1577

stuff1579

fible-fable1581

balductum1593

pill1608

nonsense1612

skimble-skamble1619

porridge1642

mataeology1656

fiddle-come-faddle1663

apple sauce1672

balderdash1674

flummery1749

slang1762

all my eye1763

diddle-daddle1778

(all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781

twaddle1782

blancmange1790

fudge1791

twiddle-twaddle1798

bothering1803

fee-faw-fum1811

slip-slop1811

nash-gab1816

flitter-tripe1822

effutiation1823

bladderdash1826

ráiméis1828

fiddlededee1843

pickles1846

rot1846

kelter1847

bosh1850

flummadiddle1850

poppycock1852

Barnum1856

fribble-frabble1859

kibosh1860

skittle1864

cod1866

Collyweston1867

punk1869

slush1869

stupidness1873

bilge-water1878

flapdoodle1878

tommyrot1880

ruck1882

piffle1884

flamdoodle1888

razzmatazz1888

balls1889

pop1890

narrischkeit1892

tosh1892

footle1894

tripe1895

crap1898

bunk1900

junk1906

quatsch1907

bilge1908

B.S.1912

bellywash1913

jazz1913

wash1913

bullshit?1915

kid-stakes1916

hokum1917

bollock1919

bullsh1919

bushwa1920

noise1920

bish-bosh1922

malarkey1923

posh1923

hooey1924

shit1924

heifer dust1927

madam1927

baloney1928

horse feathers1928

phonus-bolonus1929

rhubarb1929

spinach1929

toffeea1930

tomtit1930

hockey1931

phoney baloney1933

moody1934

cockalorum1936

cock1937

mess1937

waffle1937

berley1941

bull dust1943

crud1943

globaloney1943

hubba-hubba1944

pish1944

phooey1946

asswipe1947

chickenshit1947

slag1948

batshit1950

goop1950

slop1952

cack1954

doo-doo1954

cobbler1955

horse shit1955

nyamps1955

pony1956

horse manure1957

waffling1958

bird shit1959

codswallop1959

how's your father1959

dog shit1963

cods1965

shmegegge1968

pucky1970

taradiddle1970

mouthwash1971

wank1974

gobshite1977

mince1985

toss1990

arse1993

1928 C. Rose in New Yorker 8 Dec. 27/2 (caption) ‘It's broccoli dear.’ ‘I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it.’]

1929 J. P. McEvoy Hollywood Girl xiii. 205 It's a flop and then I says to him, in other words I say it's spinach and I say to hell with it.

1933 E. Hawes (title) Fashion is spinach.

1934 A. Woollcott While Rome Burns 304 This..reticence..will..be described by certain temperaments as..good taste... I say it's spinach.

1950 R. P. Bissell Stretch on River xxi. 207 ‘It's a transferral of intent. It's a result of childhood trauma. It's Oedipus denial,’ said my sister-in-law, who was beautiful, thank god, so you could put up with this spinach.

Compounds

C1. Applied (with distinctive premodifiers) to other species of Spinacia, or to plants in some way resembling or taking the place of this (see quots.).

Australian spinach n.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > leaf vegetables > spinach > plant resembling

Australian spinach1866

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 267/2 Australian spinach (Chenopodium erosum).

1874 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. (rev. ed.) Suppl. 1343/2 Spinach, Australian, Chenopodium auricomum.

1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 16 Chenopodium murale,..Australian Spinach.

† Cretic spinach n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Spinachia The procumbent Cretic spinach.

French spinach n.

ΚΠ

1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 657 The orache, or French spinach..is a chenopodiaceous polygamous annual.

mountain spinach n.

ΚΠ

1822 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening iii. i. 714 The Orach, or Mountain Spinach.—Atriplex hortensis.

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 108/2 The Garden Orache, or Mountain Spinach,..[is] a native of Tartary.

New Zealand spinach n.

ΚΠ

1824 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening (ed. 2) iii. i. 637 New Zealand Spinach, Tetragonia expansa.

1849 J. H. Balfour Man. Bot. §881 Some of them [ficoids] are used as articles of diet, as the leaves of..New Zealand Spinach.

perennial spinach n.

ΚΠ

1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 657 The perennial spinach..is a chenopodiaceous perennial, a native of Britain.

strawberry spinach n.

ΚΠ

1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 328 Strawberry Spinach, Blitum.

wild spinach n.

ΚΠ

1713 J. Petiver Catal. Ray's Eng. Herbal Wild Spinage.

1790 W. Marshall Agric. Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Midland Counties II. 443 Spinage, wild,..goosefoot.

1867 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries Abyssinia viii There are several varieties of wild spinach.

C2.

a. General attributive.

(a)

spinach-coloured adj.

ΚΠ

1843 W. M. Thackeray Jérôme Paturot in Wks. (1900) XIII. 393 A certain Oscar,..who paints spinach-coloured landscapes.

spinach-like adj.

ΚΠ

1886 P. Robinson Valley Teetotum Trees 123 I suddenly became aware of a peculiar circular movement in one of the spinach-like plants.

(b)

spinach-plant n.

ΚΠ

1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 657 It has been more or less in culture as a spinach plant since the beginning of the present century.

spinach-seed n.

ΚΠ

1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry IV. 89 The best way for those who have ground enough, is to sow their spinage seeds alone.

spinach beet n. (see quots.); = silver beet n. at silver n. and adj. Compounds 2e(b).

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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > beet or beetroot

beetc1000

red beet1541

white beet1542

beetroot1597

beet-raves1719

blood-beet1818

spinach beet1842

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > beet

beetc1000

red beet1541

spinach beet1842

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > beet > beet plants

sea-beet1713

scarcity1787

leaf beet1830

Swiss chard1832

spinach beet1842

sea-kale beet1882

wurzel1888

1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 658 The spinach beet, leaf beet, or white beet, Beta cicla,..a native of the sea-shores of Spain and Portugal.

1885 W. Miller tr. Veg. Garden (Vilmorin-Andrieux & Cie) 279 The leaves of the Common White Leaf-Beet, or Spinach Beet, may be cut for use even earlier.

1978 Times 17 July 14/3 The experts recommend growing Swiss chard, otherwise known as spinach beet.

spinach-green n. (a) a dark green vegetable dye made from spinach; (b) a dark green colour; also attributive or as adj.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > [adjective] > dark green

steel-greena1560

bottle-green1785

corbeau1810

forest-green1810

rifle green1829

spinach-green1845

pine green1892

army green1897

malachite1900

seaweed-green1937

the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > [noun] > shade or tint of green > dark green

steel-greena1560

moss green1705

bottle1784

corbeau1810

forest-green1810

rifle green1829

spinach-green1845

hunter's green1872

moss1897

army green1908

jungle green1946

loden1964

the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > green colouring matter > [noun] > pigment or dye > dyes and dyestuffs

greening worta1200

greening weeda1399

spinach-green1845

emeraldine1864

methyl green1873

malachite green1875

viridine1875

1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery xx. 508 (heading) Spinach green, for colouring sweet dishes.

1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. x. 250 Spinach Green For Colouring Various Dishes... Pick and wash the spinach free from dirt, and pound the leaves in a mortar to extract the juice; [etc.].

1896 Westm. Gaz. 7 May 3/1 A neckband of rich bright colour, cerise velvet or perhaps orange or spinach green.

1937 Burlington Mag. June 300/2 A fine example of the bold relief of the K'ang-hsi period is a bowl of spinach-green nephrite.

1943 R. Godden Rungli-Rungliot 4 The engine..was painted a spinach-green.

1968 ‘J. Ross’ Diminished by Death xvii. 163 A figured silk confection in spinach green.

1975 Times 31 May 7/2 His former employers ought to be spinach-green with envy.

1980 Catal. Fine Chinese Ceramics (Sotheby, Hong Kong) 210 A spinach-green jade covered censer, raised on tripod supports.

spinach jade n. (see quot. 1964); also attributive.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > jade > [noun]

nephritic stone1653

greenstone1658

jade1728

pounamua1771

jade-stone1775

nephrite1794

jadeite1868

ox-stone1877

kawa-kawa1880

mutton fat1912

spinach jade1958

the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > amphibole (double chain) > [noun] > nephrite

nephritic stone1653

greenstone1658

jade1728

jade-stone1775

nephrite1794

kawa-kawa1880

spinach jade1958

1958 W. Willetts Chinese Art I. ii. 61 Siberian jade has a rather distinctive appearance owing to the presence of small particles of black graphite embedded in the stone, which leads the Chinese to call it ‘spinach jade’.

1964 M. Medley Handbk. Chinese Art 108/2 Spinach jade, in Chinese po-ts‘ai-yü; a nephrite from Siberia characterised by black flecks of graphite.

1976 ‘M. Delving’ China Expert xii. 158 Mei was wearing a ch'i pao of dark grey silk..fastened up to the neck with spinach jade buttons.

spinach moth n. (see quot.).

ΚΠ

1887 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. VI. (at cited word) Northern spinach-moth,..Cidaria populata, a British geometer-moth.

spinach-stool n. an evacuation of the colour of spinach.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > excretory disorders > [noun] > green faeces

spinach-stool1888

1888 J. F. Goodhart Dis. Children (ed. 3) iv. 74 The spinach stool has commonly been said to be due to altered blood.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	spinach
释义	spinachn. Brit. /ˈspɪnɪtʃ/, /ˈspɪnɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈspɪnɪtʃ/ Forms: α. Middle English (transmission error) spinogre, 1500s spynnage, spenege, 1600s–1800s spinnage, 1500s–1800s spinage. β. 1500s spynache, spinech, 1500s–1600s spinache, 1500s– spinach. Etymology: < Old French espinage, (e)spinache (also -ace), = Catalan espinach, Spanish espinaca, Italian spinace, Romanian spenac, medieval Latin spinachia (-achium), spinacia (-acium), of doubtful origin. Compare Middle Dutch spinage, -agie, -aetse (Dutch spinazie, Flemish spinagie), Low German spinase, -axe, obsolete German spinacie, -asche, German dialect spinaz, Middle High German and German spinat (whence Danish spinat, Swedish spenat). The difficult problem of the ultimate origin of the word is complicated by variation of the ending in the Romanic languages. In addition to espinache, -age, Old French had also espinoche (still in dialect use), -oce, = medieval Latin spinochia, and espinarde, espinar (French épinard), = Provençal espinarc, medieval Latin spinarium, -argium. Portuguese exhibits the further variant espinafre. By older writers the stem of these forms was supposed to be Latin spīna, in allusion to the prickly seeds of a common species. De Vic considers the various forms to be adoption of Arab isfināj, Persian isfānāj, ispānāk, aspanākh (Richardson), but it is doubtful whether these are really native words. It is difficult to explain either the Romanic or the Middle Eastern forms from the synonymous Hispanicum olus recorded from the 16th cent. and represented by older French herbe d'Espaigne (Cotgrave). 1. a. A plant ( Spinacia oleracea) belonging to the N.O. Chenopodiaceæ, extensively cultivated for culinary purposes; the succulent leaves of this plant used as a vegetable. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > leaf vegetables > [noun] > spinach spinacha1400 New Zealand spinach1822 palak1868 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > leaf vegetables > spinach spinacha1400 New Zealand spinach1822 α. a1400 Sloane MS. No. 5 f. 12/1 Spinatea... G[allice] spinache, A[nglice] Spinogre. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 274 Spynnage an herbe, espinars. 1568 W. Turner Herbal iii. 71 Spinage or spinech is an herbe lately found and not long in use. 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso (1674) i. xvi. 18 Gardners might know Nettles and Henbane, from Spinnage and Lettice. 1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet i. 249 Spinage, emollient, but not very nourishing. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 4 The grass has the appearance of boiled spinage. 1808 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 19 38 Neither boiled spinage, nor succory, possess this quality. 1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. ii. iii. 623 Some are used as pot-herbs, as Spinage. β. 1538 W. Turner Libellus de re Herbaria at Sevtlomalochon A nostris spynache nominatur. 1568 [see α. ]. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 556 This pot-herbe, or rather Salet herbe, is called..Spinache.1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ iii. xxii. 433 Spinach..is used in sallads,..and helps inflamations..of the Stomach.1755 J. Wesley Primitive Physick (ed. 5) 69 Eat largely of Spinach.1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1773 I. 394 We had a very good soup, a boiled leg of lamb and spinach.1840 R. H. Barham Lay St. Dunstan in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 230 St. Dunstan himself sits there..eating poach'd eggs with spinach and toast.1883 Cassell's Family Mag. Sept. 593 The winter spinach must next be thinned out. b. With distinguishing epithets denoting varieties of the common garden spinach. ΚΠ 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique ii. xix. 226 Spinage (so called bicause his seede is prickly) is of two sorts, the male and the female. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Spinachia The common prickly or narrow-leav'd Spinach. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Spinachia Common smooth-seeded Spinach. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Spinachia These Male Plants are by the Gardeners commonly called She Spinach. 1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry IV. 89 The oblong oval leaved spinage, commonly called plantain spinage. 1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 656 There are three varieties, the round-seeded,..the Flanders spinach,..and the prickly-seeded, or common winter spinach. 2. elliptical. As a moth-name. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Geometridae > spinach spinach1832 1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 123 The Spinach (E. Spinachiata, Stephens) appears in July. 1896 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. VI. 117 The little moth..known as the dark spinach (Larentia chenopodiata). 3. Nonsense, rubbish. U.S. colloquial (now rare). Cf. earlier gammon and spinach at gammon n.⁴ and int. Phrases 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun] magged talea1387 moonshine1468 trumperyc1485 foolishness1531 trash1542 baggage1545 flim-flam1570 gear1570 rubbisha1576 fiddle-faddle1577 stuff1579 fible-fable1581 balductum1593 pill1608 nonsense1612 skimble-skamble1619 porridge1642 mataeology1656 fiddle-come-faddle1663 apple sauce1672 balderdash1674 flummery1749 slang1762 all my eye1763 diddle-daddle1778 (all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781 twaddle1782 blancmange1790 fudge1791 twiddle-twaddle1798 bothering1803 fee-faw-fum1811 slip-slop1811 nash-gab1816 flitter-tripe1822 effutiation1823 bladderdash1826 ráiméis1828 fiddlededee1843 pickles1846 rot1846 kelter1847 bosh1850 flummadiddle1850 poppycock1852 Barnum1856 fribble-frabble1859 kibosh1860 skittle1864 cod1866 Collyweston1867 punk1869 slush1869 stupidness1873 bilge-water1878 flapdoodle1878 tommyrot1880 ruck1882 piffle1884 flamdoodle1888 razzmatazz1888 balls1889 pop1890 narrischkeit1892 tosh1892 footle1894 tripe1895 crap1898 bunk1900 junk1906 quatsch1907 bilge1908 B.S.1912 bellywash1913 jazz1913 wash1913 bullshit?1915 kid-stakes1916 hokum1917 bollock1919 bullsh1919 bushwa1920 noise1920 bish-bosh1922 malarkey1923 posh1923 hooey1924 shit1924 heifer dust1927 madam1927 baloney1928 horse feathers1928 phonus-bolonus1929 rhubarb1929 spinach1929 toffeea1930 tomtit1930 hockey1931 phoney baloney1933 moody1934 cockalorum1936 cock1937 mess1937 waffle1937 berley1941 bull dust1943 crud1943 globaloney1943 hubba-hubba1944 pish1944 phooey1946 asswipe1947 chickenshit1947 slag1948 batshit1950 goop1950 slop1952 cack1954 doo-doo1954 cobbler1955 horse shit1955 nyamps1955 pony1956 horse manure1957 waffling1958 bird shit1959 codswallop1959 how's your father1959 dog shit1963 cods1965 shmegegge1968 pucky1970 taradiddle1970 mouthwash1971 wank1974 gobshite1977 mince1985 toss1990 arse1993 1928 C. Rose in New Yorker 8 Dec. 27/2 (caption) ‘It's broccoli dear.’ ‘I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it.’] 1929 J. P. McEvoy Hollywood Girl xiii. 205 It's a flop and then I says to him, in other words I say it's spinach and I say to hell with it. 1933 E. Hawes (title) Fashion is spinach. 1934 A. Woollcott While Rome Burns 304 This..reticence..will..be described by certain temperaments as..good taste... I say it's spinach. 1950 R. P. Bissell Stretch on River xxi. 207 ‘It's a transferral of intent. It's a result of childhood trauma. It's Oedipus denial,’ said my sister-in-law, who was beautiful, thank god, so you could put up with this spinach. Compounds C1. Applied (with distinctive premodifiers) to other species of Spinacia, or to plants in some way resembling or taking the place of this (see quots.). Australian spinach n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > leaf vegetables > spinach > plant resembling Australian spinach1866 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 267/2 Australian spinach (Chenopodium erosum). 1874 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. (rev. ed.) Suppl. 1343/2 Spinach, Australian, Chenopodium auricomum. 1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 16 Chenopodium murale,..Australian Spinach. † Cretic spinach n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Spinachia The procumbent Cretic spinach. French spinach n. ΚΠ 1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 657 The orache, or French spinach..is a chenopodiaceous polygamous annual. mountain spinach n. ΚΠ 1822 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening iii. i. 714 The Orach, or Mountain Spinach.—Atriplex hortensis. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 108/2 The Garden Orache, or Mountain Spinach,..[is] a native of Tartary. New Zealand spinach n. ΚΠ 1824 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening (ed. 2) iii. i. 637 New Zealand Spinach, Tetragonia expansa. 1849 J. H. Balfour Man. Bot. §881 Some of them [ficoids] are used as articles of diet, as the leaves of..New Zealand Spinach. perennial spinach n. ΚΠ 1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 657 The perennial spinach..is a chenopodiaceous perennial, a native of Britain. strawberry spinach n. ΚΠ 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 328 Strawberry Spinach, Blitum. wild spinach n. ΚΠ 1713 J. Petiver Catal. Ray's Eng. Herbal Wild Spinage. 1790 W. Marshall Agric. Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Midland Counties II. 443 Spinage, wild,..goosefoot. 1867 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries Abyssinia viii There are several varieties of wild spinach. C2. a. General attributive. (a) spinach-coloured adj. ΚΠ 1843 W. M. Thackeray Jérôme Paturot in Wks. (1900) XIII. 393 A certain Oscar,..who paints spinach-coloured landscapes. spinach-like adj. ΚΠ 1886 P. Robinson Valley Teetotum Trees 123 I suddenly became aware of a peculiar circular movement in one of the spinach-like plants. (b) spinach-plant n. ΚΠ 1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 657 It has been more or less in culture as a spinach plant since the beginning of the present century. spinach-seed n. ΚΠ 1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry IV. 89 The best way for those who have ground enough, is to sow their spinage seeds alone. b. spinach beet n. (see quots.); = silver beet n. at silver n. and adj. Compounds 2e(b). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > beet or beetroot beetc1000 red beet1541 white beet1542 beetroot1597 beet-raves1719 blood-beet1818 spinach beet1842 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > beet beetc1000 red beet1541 spinach beet1842 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > beet > beet plants sea-beet1713 scarcity1787 leaf beet1830 Swiss chard1832 spinach beet1842 sea-kale beet1882 wurzel1888 1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 658 The spinach beet, leaf beet, or white beet, Beta cicla,..a native of the sea-shores of Spain and Portugal. 1885 W. Miller tr. Veg. Garden (Vilmorin-Andrieux & Cie) 279 The leaves of the Common White Leaf-Beet, or Spinach Beet, may be cut for use even earlier. 1978 Times 17 July 14/3 The experts recommend growing Swiss chard, otherwise known as spinach beet. spinach-green n. (a) a dark green vegetable dye made from spinach; (b) a dark green colour; also attributive or as adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > [adjective] > dark green steel-greena1560 bottle-green1785 corbeau1810 forest-green1810 rifle green1829 spinach-green1845 pine green1892 army green1897 malachite1900 seaweed-green1937 the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > [noun] > shade or tint of green > dark green steel-greena1560 moss green1705 bottle1784 corbeau1810 forest-green1810 rifle green1829 spinach-green1845 hunter's green1872 moss1897 army green1908 jungle green1946 loden1964 the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > green colouring matter > [noun] > pigment or dye > dyes and dyestuffs greening worta1200 greening weeda1399 spinach-green1845 emeraldine1864 methyl green1873 malachite green1875 viridine1875 1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery xx. 508 (heading) Spinach green, for colouring sweet dishes. 1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. x. 250 Spinach Green For Colouring Various Dishes... Pick and wash the spinach free from dirt, and pound the leaves in a mortar to extract the juice; [etc.]. 1896 Westm. Gaz. 7 May 3/1 A neckband of rich bright colour, cerise velvet or perhaps orange or spinach green. 1937 Burlington Mag. June 300/2 A fine example of the bold relief of the K'ang-hsi period is a bowl of spinach-green nephrite. 1943 R. Godden Rungli-Rungliot 4 The engine..was painted a spinach-green. 1968 ‘J. Ross’ Diminished by Death xvii. 163 A figured silk confection in spinach green. 1975 Times 31 May 7/2 His former employers ought to be spinach-green with envy. 1980 Catal. Fine Chinese Ceramics (Sotheby, Hong Kong) 210 A spinach-green jade covered censer, raised on tripod supports. spinach jade n. (see quot. 1964); also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > jade > [noun] nephritic stone1653 greenstone1658 jade1728 pounamua1771 jade-stone1775 nephrite1794 jadeite1868 ox-stone1877 kawa-kawa1880 mutton fat1912 spinach jade1958 the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > amphibole (double chain) > [noun] > nephrite nephritic stone1653 greenstone1658 jade1728 jade-stone1775 nephrite1794 kawa-kawa1880 spinach jade1958 1958 W. Willetts Chinese Art I. ii. 61 Siberian jade has a rather distinctive appearance owing to the presence of small particles of black graphite embedded in the stone, which leads the Chinese to call it ‘spinach jade’. 1964 M. Medley Handbk. Chinese Art 108/2 Spinach jade, in Chinese po-ts‘ai-yü; a nephrite from Siberia characterised by black flecks of graphite. 1976 ‘M. Delving’ China Expert xii. 158 Mei was wearing a ch'i pao of dark grey silk..fastened up to the neck with spinach jade buttons. spinach moth n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1887 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. VI. (at cited word) Northern spinach-moth,..Cidaria populata, a British geometer-moth. spinach-stool n. an evacuation of the colour of spinach. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > excretory disorders > [noun] > green faeces spinach-stool1888 1888 J. F. Goodhart Dis. Children (ed. 3) iv. 74 The spinach stool has commonly been said to be due to altered blood. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.a1400
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