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单词 sweetbread
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sweetbreadn.1

Brit. /ˈswiːtbrɛd/, U.S. /ˈswitˌbrɛd/
Forms: (Also formerly as two words.)
Etymology: apparently < sweet adj. + bread n., but the reason for the name is not obvious.
1. The pancreas, or the thymus gland, of an animal, esp. as used for food (distinguished respectively as heart sweetbread, stomach sweetbread, or belly sweetbread and throat sweetbread, gullet sweetbread, or neck sweetbread): esteemed a delicacy.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > part or joint of animal > [noun] > glands
liverOE
kidneyc1325
rys lumbard?c1390
fee14..
sweetbread1565
burr1573
gut-bread1893
miltz1909
prairie oyster1941
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Animellæ, the sweete breade in a hogge.
1578 J. Banister Hist. Man vii. f. 90 A certaine Glandulous part, called Thimus, which in Calues..is most pleasaunt to be eaten. I suppose we call it the sweete bread.
1598 G. Chapman tr. Homer Seauen Bks. Iliades i. 458 [They] Cut off their thighes dubd with the fatte,..And pricke the sweetebreads thereupon.
1615 T. Overbury et al. New & Choise Characters with Wife (6th impr.) sig. Kv For an inward bruse, Lambe-stones and sweetbreads are his only Sperma Ceti.
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures (1663) xxx. 121 Some sell their pigs, and some again sell nothing but the chitterlings, the sweet-breads, the blood, and the haslets.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1778 II. 258 He gave her her choice of a chicken, [or] a sweetbread.
1797–8 C. Lamb Rosamund Gray xi, in Wks. (1903) I. 26 I ordered my dinner—green peas and a sweetbread.
1824 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1825) 281 We've gullet-sweetbreads, veined with red.
1846 A. Soyer Gastron. Regenerator 681 If I cannot meet with heart sweetbreads, I in general satisfy myself with the throats.
1884 G. Allen Philistia III. 156 Oysters, game, sweetbreads, red mullet, any little delicacy of that sort.
2. A bribe, douceur. Obsolete slang or colloquial.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [noun] > bribe
gift1382
handy-dandyc1390
pricec1400
bud1436
bribe?a1439
golden (also silver) keyc1450
fee1549
golden shower1589
oil of angels1592
sugar-plum1608
bribera1616
palm oil1625
greasinga1661
sop1665
sweetbreada1670
vail1687
douceur1739
sweetener1741
bonus1759
buckshee1773
smear-gelt1785
grease1823
boodle?1856
soap1860
ice1887
palm-grease1897
poultice1902
fix1929
dropsy1930
pay-off1930
drop1931
oil1935
squeeze-pidgin1946
sling1948
bung1958
back-hander1960
a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) ii. 163 I obtain'd that of the fellow,..with a few Sweetbreads that I gave him out of my Purse.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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