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单词 spinach
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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pill1608
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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
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1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Spinachia The procumbent Cretic spinach.
French spinach n.
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1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 657 The orache, or French spinach..is a chenopodiaceous polygamous annual.
mountain spinach n.
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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.
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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.
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1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 657 The perennial spinach..is a chenopodiaceous perennial, a native of Britain.
strawberry spinach n.
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1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 328 Strawberry Spinach, Blitum.
wild spinach n.
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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.
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spinach-coloured adj.
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1843 W. M. Thackeray Jérôme Paturot in Wks. (1900) XIII. 393 A certain Oscar,..who paints spinach-coloured landscapes.
spinach-like adj.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.).
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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.
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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.
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