英和和英

語源

Non-rhotic pronunciation of morsel.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈmɒsəl/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈmɑsəl/

名詞

mossle (plural mossles)

1. (obsolete) Pronunciation spelling of morsel.
   • 1850, John Yonge Akerman, “Second Day”, in Spring-tide: Or, The Angler and His Friends‎, London: Richard Bentley, page 37:

     The oldest men in this neighbourhood, and some have reached eighty years, say they remember trees which are "not a mossle chainged” since they were breeched.

   • 1882, Hubert Simmons, Farnborough Hall; Or, New Life on the Old Farm‎, volume III, London: Tinsley Brothers, page 36:

     "I say", says an applicant, "when be you coming to wait on me? Mind, don't disappoint, for we ain't got a mossle of straw."

   • 1897, George Brown Burgin, “XV: The Passing of Mrs. Merryweather”, in Fortune's Footballs‎, D. Appleton, page 223:

     Not a mossle of good. I'm like them pore Indoos as sits on your doormat when you reproaches them with their colour , and doesn't move till they dies.

アナグラム

• Solems, Mosels, mossel