“pudding-prick”的英文意思

单词

pudding-prick

释义

† ˈpudding-prick Obs.
A slender wooden skewer (see prick n. 14) with which the ends of a gut containing a pudding were fastened. Often in similative phrase: see quots. 1562, 1611.
a1518Skelton Magnyf. 2122 As huksters they hucke and they stycke, And pynche at the payment of a poddynge prycke.a1533Frith Answ. More (1548) I vj, Hys proue shall not be worth a podynge prycke.1562J. Heywood Epigr. vi. xix, A pooddyng pricke is one, a mylpost is an other.1611Cotgr. s.v. Arbre, (We say of one that hath squandered away great wealth) hee hath thwitten a mill⁓post to a pudding pricke.

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