单词 | stargazey |
释义 | star-gazy, stargazy, stargazey, a.|ˈstɑːgeɪzɪ| Also star-a-gaze, starry-gazey, starry-gazy. [f. star-gaze v. + -y1.] star-gazy pie, a kind of fish pie traditionally made in Cornwall (see quots.).
1847J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II. 799/1 Starry-gazy-pie. A pie made of pilchards and leeks, the heads of the pilchards appearing through the crust as if they were studying the stars. Cornw. 1864F. T. O'Donoghue St. Knighton's Keive: a Cornish Tale Gloss. 303 Star-a-gaze pie, a mackerel pie with the heads above the paste, gazing upwards, as it were. 1954D. Hartley Food in England x. 246 Stargazey pies. These are properly made of pilchards... The cooks covered the body of the fish—but left the head sticking out. 1966Punch 14 Sept. 385/1 To provide the dishes that one's forbears ate—roast saddle of hare,..or stargazy pie, or syllabub—would be to proclaim oneself madly affected. 1970A. Pascoe Cornish Recipes Old & New 30 (heading) Star⁓gazy pie. 1980ABMR Feb. 75/1, I now believe that heavy cake, like starry-gazey pie, was originally made from pilchards. |

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