pop-corn
See also: popcorn
English
editNoun
edit- Archaic form of popcorn.
- 1858 February 18, Buffalo Daily Republic and Times, volume XII, whole number 6279; new series, number 50, page [3], column 3:
- Gen. Riley had his brigade marshalled in front of the “tavern,” where they enjoyed themselves alternately in eating pop-corn and sitting on the front stoop.
- 1862 January 4, Jonesboro Weekly Gazette, volume XII, number 49, Jonesboro, Ill., front page, column 6:
- Two boys, one aged eight and the other twelve years, in Rome, Oneida county, N. Y., a few days ago, had a childish altercation about some chewing-gum and pop-corn, and, as they separated, threw at each other with sticks and other missiles, […]
- 1885, David Dixon Porter, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War[1], page 274:
- It looked queer to me to see boxes labeled "His Excellency, Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America." The packages so labeled contained Bass ale or Cognac brandy, which cost "His Excellency" less than we Yankees had to pay for it. Think of the President drinking imported liquors while his soldiers were living on pop-corn and water!
French
editAlternative forms
editPronunciation
editNoun
editpop-corn m (plural pop-corns)
- popcorn
- Synonyms: maïs éclaté, maïs soufflé
Further reading
edit- “pop-corn”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English popcorn.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpop-corn m
References
edit- ^ pop-corn in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Further reading
edit- pop-corn in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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