FOOD – VERBS
VERBS
► CATE to prepare or dress food → 1617 obs.
► DAPINATE ‘to provide daintie meates’; to serve up food → 1623 obs.
► DECK AT to feel disgust at food → 19C Eng. dial.
► DO IT WELL to entertain, to provide food or other material comforts to one’s own satisfaction → L19 sl.
► DO ONESELF PROUD to entertain, to provide food or other material comforts to one’s own satisfaction → M19 sl.
► DO ONESELF WELL to entertain, to provide food or other material comforts to one’s own satisfaction → L19 sl.
► DO SOMEONE PROUD to entertain, to provide food or other material comforts to someone’s satisfaction → M19 sl.
► FEEL WALLOW to have a distaste for one’s food → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FEEL WALLOW-LIKE to have a distaste for one’s food → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GRUB to provide with food → c1810 sl.
► HASH OVER to reheat food → 1931-33 Amer. dial.
► HAVE NEITHER THICK NOR THIN IN THE HOUSE to have neither food nor drink → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LEAVE SOME MANNERS IN THE DISH to leave a small portion of any dish of food → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LOLLOP to stir or swish something around; to move food around in the mouth → 1956 Amer. dial.
► MAGGLE to spoil by over-handling; to mangle; to spoil food by cutting and handling it too much during its preparation → 1713 Sc.
► MAKE ONE’S TONGUE SLAP ONE IN THE FOREHEAD of food: to taste good → 2008 Amer. dial.
► MAKE ONE’S TONGUE SLAP ONE’S BRAIN of food: to taste good → 2003 Amer. dial.
► MAKE ONE’S TONGUE SLAP ONE’S JAW TEETH OUT of food: to taste good → 1986 Amer. dial.
► MAKE ONE’S TONGUE SLAP ONE’S TONSILS of food: to taste good → 2009 Amer. dial.
► MAKE ONE’S TONGUE SLAP THE ROOF OF ONE’S MOUTH of food: to taste good → 1967 Amer. dial.
► MANG to mix together; to mess about; to touch with the hand; generally of food → 1829 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► MEAL to provide food for; to feed; to eat a meal; to take regular meals, as at a boarding house → 1630
► MOG to pout, to grow sullen, to mope; to refuse food → 19C Eng. dial.
► OBLIGURATE to spend in food; to spend time feasting → 1623 obs.
► RAKE of food: to disagree with → 1790 Eng. dial. obs.
► RAM 1. to stuff with food → 1791 Sc.
2. to take food without one’s parents’ permission from the refrigerator → 1996 African-American dial.
► RAVEN to wander in search of food → 1888 Eng. dial.
► REBEL of food: to rise in the stomach → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SAULE to satisfy, to fill with food → c1430 obs.
► SCAFF to provide food; to devise means for obtaining food; to sponge; to collect by dishonourable means → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
► SCART to scrape a vessel with a spoon, to take the last remnants of food from a dish → 1808 Sc.
► SCRAN 1. to collect scraps of food to make up a meal → M18 sl.
2. to provide with food → M18 sl.
► SPORT to treat, usually to food and/or to drink → E19 sl.
► SUFFICE to provide enough food for; to satisfy the appetite → c1450 obs.
► TAKE TO to serve as food → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TARROW to find fault with one’s food; to refuse food, etc. merely out of peevishness → 1641 Sc.
► TAUNT to sicken from eating disgusting food; to upset the digestion → 1898 Sc.
► UPBRAY of food: to rise in the stomach; to make uneasy with indigestion → 1598 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
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