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Shrewsbury|ˈʃruːz-, ˈʃrəʊzbərɪ|
1. The name of the county town of Shropshire, used as the specific appellation of articles manufactured there. Shrewsbury cake: a flat round crisp biscuit-like cake. Shrewsbury simnel: see simnel 1 b.
1728E. Smith Compl. Housew. 129 To make Shrewsbury-Cakes. 1831Lincoln Herald 7 Oct. 4/4 Gingerbread buttons and Shrewsbury cakes. 1840Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. ii. Bloudie Jacke xxxii, She has given him..a Shrewsbury cake, Of Pailin's own make. 1844Ladies' Hand-bk. Haberdashery 45 White or broad Reel-thread, Scotch Thread, Shrewsbury Thread. 1883C. S. Burne Shropsh. Folk-L. 325 ‘Shrewsbury Simnels’..are eaten by many who do not heed the pious habit of ‘mothering’ which they were intended to celebrate.
2. In phrases. by Shrewsbury clock: added (in allusion to quot. 1596) to statements of duration as a proverbial phr., esp. to indicate exaggeration; as exact (or regular) as Shrewsbury clock: very exact or regular.
[1596, Shakes. 1 Hen. IV v. iv. 151 We rose both at an instant, and fought a long houre by Shrewsburie clocke.] 1681Poor Robin Almanack Mar. 12 A great many people shall feed (according as Sir John Falstaffe used to sight) three hours together by Shrewsbury Clock. 1784H. Cowley More Ways than One I. i. 1 My master is as exact as Shrewsbury clock. 1796J. White Orig. Lett. Sir J. Falstaff 17 Fifteen minutes, as thou say'st, by Shrewsbury clock. 1835J. Kincaid Random Shots from Rifleman xiii. 332 Sir Arthur, in all his movements for twenty years, had been as regular as Shrewsbury clock. 1891R. L. Stevenson Let. in Wks. (1923) XXII. xi. 386, I remember, when I first saw this, laughing for an hour by Shrewsbury clock. 1901G. B. Shaw Admirable Bashville iii. 324 On the impenetrable sarcolobe That holds his seedling brain these fists have pounded By Shrewsb'ry clock an hour. |
