cupboard
SubstantivVerbhäufig in Dialogen
- Vereinigtes Königreich//ˈkʌb.əd//
- Kanada//ˈkʌb.ɚd//
- Australien//ˈkɐb.əd//
A cabinet, closet, or other piece of furniture with shelves intended for storing cookware, dishware, or food; similar cabinets or closets used for storing other items.
Substantiv
- 1
veraltetA board or table used to openly hold and display silver plate and other dishware; a sideboard; a buffet.
Cupboꝛde of plate or to ſette plate upon buffet z ma.
from the cobbarde byſyde owr dyninge table
Now when the maids and pages all were gone, / One onely lampe upon the cubbard burning[…]
- 2
veraltetThings displayed on a sideboard; dishware, particularly valuable plate.
But howe comme to pas, / Your cupbord that was / Is tourned to glasse, / From syluere to brasse, / From golde to pewter, / Or els to a newter, / To copper, to tyn, / To lede, or alcumyn?
- 3
A cabinet, closet, or other piece of furniture with shelves intended for storing cookware, dishware, or food; similar cabinets or closets used for storing other items.
Put the cups back into the cupboard.
Cupborde to putte meate in – dressover s, m.
Old Mother Hubbard / Went to the cupboard, / To give the poor dog a bone; / When she came there, / The cupboard was bare, / And so the poor dog had none.
A cupboard with shelves for music-books.
- 4
A closet for storing coats.
I hung the coat in the cupboard and bided my time.
- 5
veraltetThings stored in a cupboard; particularly food.
Some men they [make] love for what they can get, / And 'tis certain there's many a Lubbard; / Will sigh and will pant, seeming ready to faint, / And all for the love of the cubbard, brave boys! / And all [for the love of the Cup-board].
Herkunft
Inherited from Middle English cuppeborde, cupbord. Equivalent to cup + board. Phonetic variants show that the /p/ in the original forms had assimilated to the present-day /b/ by the 16th century; the etymological spelling has, however, dominated from the 18th century.
Verb
- 1
To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard.
There was a time, when all the bodies members / Rebell'd againſt the Belly; thus accus'd it: / That onely like a Gulfe it did remaine / I'th midd'ſt a th'body, idle and vnactiue, / Still cubbording the Viand, neuer bearing / Like labour with the reſt, where th'other Inſtruments / Did ſee, and heare, deuiſe, inſtruct, walke, feele, / And mutually participate, did miniſter / Vnto the appetite; […]
Formen
- Plural
- cupboards
- Präteritum
- cupboarded
- Partizip II
- cupboarded
- Partizip I
- cupboarding
- 3. Person Singular
- cupboards
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