choke-priest

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A thick Italian soup containing pasta or dumplings. obsolete,uncountable
    — Warm choke-priest, pastry, and sour wine (the refuse of the convent cellars) were retailed for the same purposes.

词源

UK mid-19th century. Calque of Italian strozzapreti, from strozzare (“to choke; to strangle”) + prete (“priest”). Equivalent to choke + priest.
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