| 单词 |
squanter-squash |
| 释义 |
† squanter-squash U.S. Obs. rare. Also 7 isquouter, squonter-. [ad. Narragansett Indian asquutasquash: see squash n.2] A squash.
1634W. Wood New Eng. Prosp. 67 In Summer, when their [sc. the Indians'] corne is spent, Isquouter squashes is their best bread, a fruite like a young Pumpion. 1672J. Josselyn New Eng. Rarities 57 Squashes, but more truly Squonter⁓squashes, a kind of Mellon, or rather Gourd. 1705R. Beverley Virginia ii. iv. (1722) 124 The Clypeatæ are sometimes call'd Cymnels.., from the Lenten Cake of that Name, which many of them very much resemble. Squash, or Squanter-Squash, is their Name among the Northern Indians, and so they are call'd in New-York and New-England. |

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