congee
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɑnd͡ʒi/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɒndʒiː/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Homophone: kanji (US)
Etymology 1
[edit]From late Middle English congie, from Old French congié, congiet (modern French congé), from Latin commeātus (“passage, permission to leave”), from commeō (“I go and come”), from con- + meō (“I go, I pass”). Figurative senses generally borrowed from developments in French congé.
Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]congee (countable and uncountable, plural congees)
- Leave, formal permission for some action, (originally and particularly):
- (obsolete) Formal permission to leave; a passport.
- (obsolete) Formal dismissal; (figurative) any dismissal; (originally & particularly humorously ironic) abrupt dismissal without ceremony.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- So courteous conge both did giue and take,
With right hands plighted, pledges of good will.
- (obsolete) Formal leavetaking; (figurative) any farewell.
- (obsolete, Scotland) A fee paid to make another go away, (particularly) alms to a persistent beggar.
- (archaic) A bow, curtsey, or other gesture (originally) made at departure but (later) including at greeting or in obeissance or respect.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- As salutations, reverences, or conges, by which some doe often purchase the honour, (but wrongfully) to be humble, lowly, and courteous […].
- 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 96, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume IV, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
- So saying, he bowed with a thousand apish congês, and presented his paper to Peregrine […] .
- 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
- “My daughter Rebecca, so please your Grace,” answered Isaac, with a low congee, nothing embarrassed by the Prince’s salutation, in which, however, there was at least as much mockery as courtesy.
- 1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume I, page 23:
- His speech thus spake the Moor, and took his leave,
he and his meiny where the bátels lay:
formal farewells to chief and crews he gave,
exchanging congees with due courtesy.
Derived terms
[edit]Verb
[edit]congee (third-person singular simple present congees, present participle congeeing, simple past and past participle congeed)
- (archaic) To give congee, (particularly)
- (obsolete, transitive) To give formal permission to leave; to dismiss.
- (obsolete, transitive) To give formal permission to do something; to license.
- (archaic) To take congee: to leave ceremoniously.
- (archaic) To make a congee: to bow, curtsey, etc., (particularly dialectal) while leaving; (figuratively) to make obeissance, show respect, or defer to someone or something.
Etymology 2
[edit]From Tamil கஞ்சி (kañci)[1] or another Dravidian language such as Malayalam കഞ്ഞി (kaññi) (ultimately from Proto-Dravidian *kañci), possibly via Portuguese canje.[2]
Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]congee (usually uncountable, plural congees)
- (Asian cooking) A type of thick rice porridge or soup, sometimes prepared with vegetables and/or meat.
Synonyms
[edit]- rice porridge; rice congee (hypercorrect)
- (Chinese English): porridge
Hyponyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]a type of rice porridge
|
See also
[edit]- (Portuguese): canja
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Yule, Henry, Sir (1903) Hobson-Jobson: A glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases, and of kindred terms, etymological, historical, geographical and discursive.[1]: “It is from the Tamil kanjī, 'boilings.'”
- ^ “conjee”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
References
[edit]- "congee | congé, n.²" & "v." in the Oxford English Dictionary, 1891.
Anagrams
[edit]Categories:
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- English terms with homophones
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with obsolete senses
- English terms with quotations
- Scottish English
- English terms with archaic senses
- English verbs
- English transitive verbs
- English dialectal terms
- English terms derived from Tamil
- English terms derived from Malayalam
- English terms derived from Proto-Dravidian
- English terms derived from Portuguese
- en:Cooking
- en:Foods