单词 | botijo |
释义 | botijon. Chiefly in Spanish and Latin American contexts. An earthenware vessel with a relatively narrow base and a broad, closed, rounded body topped with a circular handle, and with a short open neck on one side (through which the vessel is filled), and a narrow spout (for pouring or drinking from) on the other, used for carrying, cooling, and serving water, wine, milk, etc. Cf. botija n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [noun] > earthenware vessel > other spec. botija1588 botijo1600 Brown George1847 buck-pot1851 kuza1871 coil pot1893 Poole pot1938 1600 R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 489 We landed in an Iland..: there in a caue we found certaine Botijos of wine. a1633 F. Godwin Man in Moone (1638) 51 I..furnished my Pockets with as much Victuall as I could thrust in, amongst the which I fail not to afford place for a little Botijo of good Canary wine. 1865 H. O'Shea Guide to Spain p. cxiii The Arabs' early zooleh, which hold and keep the water so well, were the prototypes of the botijo. 1898 Denver Evening Post 3 June You must throw your head back, hold the ‘botijo’ high up and let the wine stream into your mouth. 1903 P. Gwynne Pagan at Shrine xv. 257 ‘It is a Spanish vice,’ said El Chopo, lowering the botijo without having spilled a drop,‘this gluttony of cold water.’ 1994 E. F. Stanton Road of Stars to Santiago v. 35 I lift the botijo and tilt back my head to drink... The water from the jug goes down well, cooled by the clay. 2012 Western Mail (Cardiff) (Nexis) 24 Nov. 28 Unsurprisingly, the market for Spanish pottery is mainly in Spain, where this jug, or ‘botijo’, would sell for £40–£60. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1600 |
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