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pottage

/pot-ij/US // ˈpɒt ɪdʒ //UK // (ˈpɒtɪdʒ) //

锅碗瓢盆,锅巴,炖菜,炖肉

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a thick soup made of vegetables, with or without meat.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • The effort to tame them can’t be traded away for a mess of union pottage.

  • A knife or fork with horizontal handles does not sit naturally in the curved structure of a trencher or a pottage bowl.

  • Their beverage is made from rice instead of barley, and their food consists for the most part of rice pottage.

  • They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage.

  • Take salt with your knife, cut your bread, dont fill your spoon too full, or sup your pottage.

  • Mr. Churchill at Glasgow, showed the real hand and the mess of pottage so amiably offered at Berlin bought no German birthright.

  • It is the spirit of Esau, who bartered the right of the first-born to the promise of the covenant for one mess of pottage.