eatables
111funerals — A great deal is known about English funerary customs through the centuries, both in their religious and their social aspects. Naturally, the picture is fullest for the better off classes, but since Victorian folklorists were interested in life …
112eatable — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ fit to be consumed as food. ► NOUN (eatables) ▪ items of food …
113tuck box — noun a box for storing eatables (especially at boarding school) • Regions: ↑United Kingdom, ↑UK, ↑U.K., ↑Britain, ↑United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, ↑Great Britain • Hypernyms: ↑ …
114refreshments — n aliment, drinks, food, food and drink, provisions, snacks, elevenses, sustenance, titbits COLLOQ. eats, eatables SLANG nosh, grub; Aust tucker …
115scran — n. sl. 1 food, eatables. 2 remains of food. Phrases and idioms: bad scran Ir. bad luck. Etymology: 18th c.: orig. unkn …
116drink|a|ble — «DRIHNG kuh buhl», adjective, noun. –adj. fit to drink: »Programs for bringing drinkable water to Egyptian and Iraqi villages are well under way (Atlantic). –n. something to drink: »I never have courage till I see the eatables and drinkables… …
117tuck|in — «TUHK IHN», noun. British Slang. a hearty meal; feast: »One good tuckin won t give you an ulcer (Scottish Sunday Express). ╂[< tuck1 eatables + in] tuck in «TUHK IHN», adjective, noun. –adj. that can or should be tucked in: »a tuck in blouse… …
118vi|vers — «VEE vuhrz», noun (plural). Scottish. food; provisions; eatables. ╂[< Middle French vivres, plural of vivre food; noun use of infinitive, live < Latin vīvere] …
119PURIM — (Heb. פּוּרִים), the feast instituted, according to the Book of esther (9:20–28), by mordecai to celebrate the deliverance of the Jews from haman s plot to kill them. Purim (Akk. pūrū, lots ) is so called (Esth. 9:26) after the lots cast by Haman …
