Eat Your Words. Paul Convery
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Название: Eat Your Words

Автор: Paul Convery

Издательство: Ingram

Жанр: Словари

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isbn: 9781642501353

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      glop * unpalatable or otherwise unappetizing food

      glutting * a quantity of food sufficient to fill the consumer to the point of repletion

      glycosites * sweets and suchlike sugary treats

      gobbet * a mouthful of semi-digested or regurgitated food

      gob-meat * a coarse vernacular expression for food; grub to stuff the mouth with

      gorgeful * a most immoderate amount of consumed food

      goulie * food that one is unfamiliar with or perhaps unaccustomed to

      grannam * an old term for the cereal staple corn, in the common tongue

      greengrocery * fresh fruit and vegetables

      grillade * grilled food, most notably meat, in general

      groats & grits * oats and grains as one’s basic food resource

      groceries * those foods and goods retailed in a grocery store; loosely, fruits and vegetables

      gros-gibier * big culinary game such as wild boar

      grub & bub * food and drink

      grubbins * food, in earlier American idiom

      gruel * thin, watery fare unpleasant in both taste and texture; slops, spoon food

      grunting-peck * pork or bacon; pig meat

      gustables * tasty articles of food

      gut-pudding * sausage or sausage meat

      guttle * that which one consumes in a guttlesome, or gluttonous, fashion

      gyppo * greasy food, be it gravy, stew, butter, bacon fat or other substance

      halal * lawfully prepared food, according to Muslim legal and customary observance

      harmalia * manna; nourishment

      hastery * roasted food; alternatively, roast meats categorically regarded

      health food * natural food claimed to contain superior nutritional goodness

      herbage * a collective term for culinary herbs, used as garnish for prepared food

      hog & hominy * spartan or simple fare

      hogo * any dressing, relish, seasoning, or condiment adding piquancy to a dish

      hollow * poultry, rabbit and hare; those meats not traditionally sold by butchers

      infant formula * instant baby food given as surrogate breast milk

      ingesta * those substances swallowed to sustain the body; in plain, food and drink

      ingredients * those individual food items which together comprise any given dish

      inmeat * the edible viscera of an animal slaughtered first and foremost for its flesh

      inside-lining * filling food, jocularly speaking

      jossop * any juicy foodstuff, as syrup, gravy or sauce

      jowpment * a confused jumble of victuals or extemporized hash

      junk food * high-calorie fare of little nutritional value or redeeming culinary merit

      junketry * sundry candies and confections

      jusculum * medicinal broth; alternatively, savoury soup

      kickshaws * fancy French food, especially bonnes bouches or similar titillating bites

      kitchen-physic * nourishing and restorative food for invalids and convalescents

      kitchen-stuff * pan fat or dripping saved for subsequent cooking

      kitchen-tillage * vegetables grown for their culinary utility

      knick-knackery * assorted sweets and other light confections

      lactage * dairy produce; milk and milk products including butter, cream, and cheese

      larder * food laid down in store

      legumes * beans, peas, lentils and pulses; collectively, edible plants or vegetables

      levets * leftover food; the leavings from a dish or a meal

      livenoth * in Old English, food as nourishment and the sustenance of bodily needs

      long-pig * human flesh as a dietary option; cannibal fare

      lubberwort * junk food; after a mystery herb imagined to render one idle and stupid

      mammaday * runny food, especially pap; soft, soppy fare for weaned babies

      manna * miracle food; heavenly fare

      marinade * seasoned liquor for flavouring and tenderizing food prior to cooking

      marrow * nourishing food

      masticatory * any plant substance such as gum that is chewed for pleasure

      maw-wallop * emetically foul food

      meal * the edible part of any cereal grain, plant seed, or pulse ground to a powder

      meat analogue * any substance designed as surrogate meat in look, texture and taste

      meaties * food for infants and younger children

      meatkin * food provisions; victuals

      meat-ware * potatoes, pulses, and other fare of a similarly starchy nature

      menavelings * food scraps, tidbits, or general odds and ends

      menu-gibier * small culinary game such as partridge, grouse, and pheasant

      meresauce * brine or marinade for pickling or preserving food

      mess-meat * minced meat; hash

      microgreens * leaf vegetable shoots used as garnish for salads, sarnies, and soups

      milkness * cheese and other dairy goods made from milk

      minifoods * cultures of single-cell proteins specially harvested as human food

      mongee * grub, in old American hobo argot

      morsel * a small “bite” of food

      mouthful * a modest quantity of food, somewhat more than a mere morsel

      moyse * anciently, a class of set pudding

      muggings * food; informally, grub

      munchable * an article of food that’s good СКАЧАТЬ