welshnut
English
Alternative forms
- Welshnut, Welsh-nut
Etymology
From Middle English walsh-note, from Old English wealhhnutu (“walnut”, literally “Welsh-nut”), equivalent to Welsh + nut.
Noun
welshnut (plural welshnuts)
- (UK dialects, West Country, Dorset, Somerset, dated) A walnut (nut or tree).
- 1879, Barnes, William, “The Welshnut Tree”, in Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, page 85:
- […] Our tongues do run, O, / Enough to stun, O, / Your head wi' glee by the welshnut tree.
- 1912, Country Life, volume 31, page 313:
- A wife, a whelp and a Welshnut tree / The more you beat 'em, the better they be.
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