Dish-covers has its own entry, and is the only other instance of “dish”. This particular sentence is ripe with entries for us.
- 01.058 and dishes and knives and forks
Dish-covers has its own entry, and is the only other instance of “dish”. This particular sentence is ripe with entries for us.
“Bottle” seems to be a diminutive of “butt”, a cask for wine or ale.
“bottle, n.2.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2016. Web. 25 March 2016.
Just one mention – but everyone’s favorite with pickles!
It goes so well with pork-pie! OED defines a salad thus:
1. a. A cold dish of herbs or vegetables (e.g. lettuce, endive), usually uncooked and chopped up or sliced, to which is often added sliced hard-boiled egg, cold meat, fish, etc., the whole being seasoned with salt, pepper, oil, and vinegar.
The word ultimately comes from the Latin for “salt”.
“salad, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2016. Web. 25 March 2016.
Only a very little cheese in the book, I’m afraid.
Most of the wine, bless it, is in Mirkwood. Wine-barrel, of course, has its own uncommon entry.
“Buttertub” has its own entry. “Butter” is not as Chapter-1-centric as most of today’s words.
The word “coffee” probably comes to us from Turkish, but before that the origins of the word are obscured in Arabic or Ethiopian origin. Caffeea arabica is native to the Arabian peninsula and Ethiopia.
Tolkien does not refer to coffee outside of chapter 1, nor in The Silmarillion, The Lord of the Rings, or even in The Father Christmas Letters. I assume that he enjoyed coffee from reading Letter 332 to his son Michael describing a flat that Merton College of Oxford provided him:
(7) The use of 2 beautiful common-rooms (at a distance of 100 yards) with free writing paper, free newspapers, and mid-morning coffee. It all sounds too good to be true (Kindle Locations 8842-8843)
To be honest, this mention of coffee – made from a tropics-loving plant which probably couldn’t grow in the Shire – I count as more evidence that Tolkien told this tale to his children (at least the beginning chapters) right off the cuff. Dwarf names he already knew and which didn’t match the world the story later turned out to inhabit, coffee which he might have wanted as a guest at supper but which didn’t match the botany of that land. “Papa, tell us another story.” Yes, little ones. I will always tell you another story and dredge it up out of any word-hoard that my young-parent-tired brain can access. Pass the coffee, please.
“coffee, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2016. Web. 25 March 2016.
In a search for “sup” and its forms, only “supper” is found. The uncommon “supper-time” is found in its own entry.
It was William who had had lots of beer.