Word of the
Day for Monday 6th January 2014
Punnet \PUHN-it\, noun:
a
small container or basket for strawberries or other fruit.
The
Flip is among Chobani's latest innovations: flavored yogurt paired with a punnet of
fruit or dry ingredients.
-- Rebecca Mead, "Just Add Sugar," The New Yorker, Nov. 4, 2013
-- Rebecca Mead, "Just Add Sugar," The New Yorker, Nov. 4, 2013
I
was selling strawberries for ten pence a punnet, less than half the
cost, for jam. And they complain.
-- Doris Lessing, The Diaries of Jane Somers, 1984
-- Doris Lessing, The Diaries of Jane Somers, 1984
Punnet is of unknown origin. It arose
in the early 1800’s.
Thanks to: www.dictionary.com
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