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单词 posset
释义

posset

/ˈpɒsɪt /
noun [mass noun]
1A cold dessert made from thickened cream, typically flavoured with lemon: lemon posset glazed with a sugar caramel...
  • Ann was tempted to conclude her lunch with a pudding, especially the lemon posset.
  • She chose the lemon posset from the traditional dessert menu, which also proved a hit, while Louis and I had coffee.
  • Choose from lemon posset with raspberries, vanilla cheesecake with honeycomb and caramel, and a tiny little apple crumble with custard.
2 historical A drink made of hot milk curdled with ale, wine, or other alcohol and typically flavoured with spices.A posset was a hot drink made from milk curdled with ale, wine, or other liquor, often with sugar, spices, and herbs added in....
  • Spiced cider and the alcoholic posset were served hot, but the staple beverage everywhere was beer, beginning with breakfast.
  • I think I love the names of trifles, possets, fools and syllabubs more than I enjoy eating them.
verb (possets, possetting, possetted) [no object]
(Of a baby) regurgitate curdled milk: bless its little heart, it’s possetting again...
  • I'm so used to the constant ‘possetting’ I forgot to mention it when I dropped the boy off, so the olds spent the day wondering whether Jr was really sick in a contagious sort of way.
  • From time to time the baby belched and possetted back a small quantity of milk.
  • Of course, Freddie pulled my hair and possetted onto it as soon as I got home again!

Origin

Late Middle English: of unknown origin. The verb is first recorded in English dialect in the late 19th century.

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