单词 | wholemeal |
释义 | wholemealn.adj. A. n. 1. Meal or flour made from whole grains of wheat or (occasionally) other cereals, with none of the bran or germ removed.In early use not as a fixed collocation.Uncommon in modern North American usage; cf. the note at sense B. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > whole meal wholemeal1620 1620 T. Venner Via Recta i. 18 Bread is also wont to bee made of the whole meale, from which the bran is not separated. 1753 ‘A Journeyman Baker’ Observ. on Table of Assize 10 The principal Ingredient in the Composition of Houshould Bread, is the whole Meal. 1784 Extract Rep. Comm. House of Commons 1783 16 He would gladly have served the public with bread made of whole meal from the best wheat. 1847 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 772/2 Oatmeal contains the materials of the most healthy nourishment. This it owes..in part to its being..a kind of whole meal. 1879 Pop. Sci. Monthly July 392 The coarseness of ‘whole meal’ is a condition designed to exert a specific effect on the digestion for those who need it. 1904–5 Price-list (Civil Service Supply Assoc.) 60 Whole Meal..per 7 lb. bag, 1/4. 1919 ‘R. Dehan’ Sailor's Home 240 ‘Gone!’ cried the landlady hysterically; ‘and him with half a peck of wholemeal in the cupboard.’ 1955 Cook. Bk. N.Z. Women's Inst. 109 Two cups wholemeal, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 cup milk. 2002 A. Lloyd-Jones tr. J. Iwaszkiewicz Birch Grove & Other Stories 249 He was chewing his lip as he untied a sack of wholemeal from the pipe. 2. colloquial. Bread made from such flour; a loaf of this. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > [noun] > kinds of bread bread1547 wholemeal1957 the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > loaf > [noun] > other types of loaf white loafeOE barley loafc950 French loafc1350 pease loafc1390 penny loaf1418 jannock?a1500 household loaf1565 boon-loaf1679 farmhouse loaf1795 cottage loaf1829 potato loaf1831 sod1836 Coburg1843 sweet roll1851 stale1874 Hovis1890 Sally Lunn1901 bloomer loaf1937 wholemeal1957 baguette1958 1957 M. Spark Comforters i. 3 I'll have a large wholemeal. I’ve got my grandson stopping for a week... He won't eat white bread, one of his fads. 1983 ‘A. T. Ellis’ Other Side of Fire xvi. 102 Small white, small wholemeal and a couple of croissants. 2010 A. Magee Living Thin 80 I tossed up whether to walk to the bakery and buy a $3 loaf of wholemeal. B. adj. Designating flour made from whole grains of wheat, etc., or foodstuffs made from such flour.The usual term in modern use in North America, specifically designating wheat flour or foodstuffs made from it, is whole wheat. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > flour > [adjective] > qualities of wholemeal1795 strong1819 ergoted1841 self-rising1853 straight1859 whole-grain1870 weak1889 1795 Lloyd's Evening Post 20 July 76/3 To enable the officers of the parish to distribute whole-meal bread to the poor at half price. 1828 T. Keightley Fairy Mythol. II. 182 A nice half griddle of whole-meal bread. 1885 Dietetic Reformer July 213 Specimens of wholemeal flour ground in the room were handed round for inspection. 1904–5 Price-list (Civil Service Supply Assoc.) 128 Biscuits, Cabin, Navy, and Whole Meal. 1961 New Scientist 7 Dec. 637/1 A loaf of wholemeal bread made from a wheat crop containing a known amount of strontium-90. 1990 Lifestyle Summer 74/1 Buy brown rice and wholemeal pasta. 2004 Trail May 46/3 The fibre in the wholemeal rolls will help to control the sugar-rush from the chocolate you're likely to snack on later too. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.1620 |
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