parboil

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To boil food briefly so that it is partly cooked.

词形变化

parboils present,singular,third-person parboiling participle,present parboiled participle,past parboiled past

词源

From Middle English parboyle, from Old French parbouillir (“to boil thoroughly”), from Medieval Latin perbulliō, from Latin per (“thoroughly”) + bulliō (“to boil”). Sense “to boil partially” (c.1440), rather than original “to boil thoroughly” is by corruption: associating the prefix with part (from Latin pars (“part”)) rather than per.
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