| 单词 | tops and bottoms |
| 释义 | > as lemmastops and bottoms (a) Plain or slightly sweetened bread rolls which are sliced in half and rebaked, usually until crisp; rusks. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > toast > [noun] frit14.. French toast1660 toast1735 tops and bottoms1765 fairy bread1874 Melba toast1913 eggy bread1983 1758 Lloyd's Evening Post 16–18 Aug. 167/3 Their common bread is rather black than brown, and so acid there is no eating it. They have another sort..; it is like tops and bottoms, and would be good eating if they did not load it with anniseeds. 1765 Universal Mag. 37 371/2 The biskets called tops and bottoms, or rusks. 1866 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 55 Hush! Hush! baby; sha'nt be sent away, but have some nice tops-and-bottoms for its supper. 1913 Evening Jrnl. (Adelaide) 11 Oct. 4/3 Tops and Bottoms.—These are not unlike soft rusks. They are much appreciated by invalids and other people who do not care for fancy cakes. (b) (Small) amounts of drink consumed by someone from the glasses of various drinkers, being either a tasting taken from a drink before serving, together with what remains in the glass when the drinker has finished, or just the latter. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun] > dregs or lees in vessel or cask drastc1000 drosenc1000 drega1300 lagsa1525 bottom1563 snuff1592 tilta1603 tilting1611 heeltap1753 dunder1774 tops and bottoms1905 1853 M. Parkyns Life in Abyssinia I. xxvii. 393 It may readily be imagined that at a large party all these tops and bottoms of glasses would form together a considerable quantity, and that the ‘asalafy’ would have as much as he could do to carry himself..were he to drink all that falls to his share. 1905 Daily Chron. 17 July 4/7 The labourers who board the steamers inquire anxiously for ‘tops and bottoms’—that is, everything that has been left undrunk in the passengers glasses. < as lemmas |
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