poke salad

名词 n.
中文释义
发音 pōk săʹləd

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A food made from boiled pokeweed leaves, which are poisonous unless cooked properly. countable,uncountable
    — The Harvard man went back into the kitchen and sat down at a rickety table covered with a red-checked oil-cloth. On it were spread the spoiled ham, a dish of poke salad, a corn pone, and a pot of weak coffee.
  2. A Hawaiian food made from diced raw fish, seasoning, diced fruit and vegetables, and sometimes rice. countable,uncountable
    — […] a wide range of creative seafood dishes (the Hawaiian-style poke salad with ahi tuna is a local favorite).
  3. Pokeweed, the leafy plant used to make such a dish. Appalachia,Southern-US,countable,uncountable
    — If some of ya'll never been down south too much / I'm gonna tell you a little bit about this / So that you'll understand what I'm talking about / Down there we have a plant that grows out in the woods, and the fields / And it looks something like a turnip green / Everybody calls it polk salad

词形变化

poke salads plural poke salet alternative poke sallet alternative poke salat alternative polk salad alternative poke salads plural poké salad alternative

词源

词源 1
poke (“pokeweed”) + salad or sallet. “Poke salad” and “poke sallet” mean the same thing—carefully boiled pokeweed. Uncooked pokeweed is poisonous. Given that “salad” connotes “raw,” many speakers favor the original “sallet” which connotes “cooked greens.”
词源 2
poke (“cubed raw fish”) + salad
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