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Also dough, duff, dog, and dick, are all the same word (when used in traditional British cooking)
by pacaro 10y ago
Also dough, duff, dog, and dick, are all the same word (when used in traditional British cooking)
- pacaro 10y agoA little surprised by the downvote. these cognates are how we get dishes like "plum Duff", and "spotted dick". Grocery stores sometimes bowdlerize the latter to "Spotted Richard", but "Spotted Dog" would be more appropriate
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- infradig 10y agoAnd also hot dog. The 'dog' being the dough or bun, not the meat in the middle.
- DanBC 10y agoWait, what? Do you have a cite for that, because everything I've seen calls the meat the dog. This use is from maybe the 1880s when any sausage was called a dog. http://www.snopes.com/language/stories/hotdog.asp http://www.snopes.com/language/stories/hotdog.asp