[lit-ideas] Adam's Spare-Rib (Was: His Navel
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:29:28 EDT
Geary:
"Why God would choose to make a person out of a rib seems
bizarrely amusing to me."
In "Time and Again" -- a lyric unfortunately not to be found online
apparently -- Noel Coward refers to Adam's "spare rib" which I think adds some
Brit
sophistication to the proceeding, if you get my draft.
Anyway,
Geary:
>Why God would choose to make a person out of a rib
>seems amusing.
Well, admittedly he took caution to 'cause a deep sleep to fall upon Adam'.
And he also took caution to 'close up the flesh'.
Personally I think possibly Adam had one rib too many.
Cheers, and good night.
J. L. Speranza
Buenos Aires, Argentina
spare-rib. [prob. ad. MLG. ribbespêr (see ribspare) with transposition of the
two elements, and subsequent association with spare a.]
A cut of meat, esp. of pork, consisting of part of the ribs somewhat closely
trimmed. Also fig.
1596 NASHE Saffron Walden 48 Let's haue halfe a dozen spare ribs of his
rethorique, with tart sauce of taunts correspondent. 1709 W. KING Cookery ix,
Spear-ribs, surloins, chines, and barons. 1749 FIELDING Tom Jones (1775) III.
113, I have bespoke a shoulder of mutton..and a spare-rib of pork. 1834
MARRYAT P. Simple xxvii, There was plenty of pork,..a roast sparerib with the
crackling on,..and pig's pettitoes. 1844 H. STEPHENS Bk. Farm II. 99 The ribs
[of
the sheep] are here left exposed at the part from which the shoulder has
been removed, and constitute what are called the spare-ribs. 1887 JEFFERIES
Amaryllis xii, Pig~Pig~such as spare-rib, griskin, blade-bone, and that
mysterious morsel, the ‘mouse’.
1607 BREWER Lingua II. i, Traile no speares, but spar~ribs of Porke. 1611
COTGR. , Cotis, the sparribs of a porke. 1706 S. SEWALL Diary 24 Dec.
(1879) II. 175 Din'd on Salt Fish and a Spar-Rib. 1748 Anson's Voy. III. v.
(ed. 4) 449 There was a great quantity of provisions, particularly salted
sparibs of pork. 1867 WAUGH Tattlin' Matty i. 11 They'n bin killin' a pig;
an' hoo's brought me a bit o' spar-rib.
b. attrib., as spare-rib feast, etc.
1737 Ochtertyre Ho. Bks. (S.H.S.) 90 The sparrib rost peices. 1867 G.
EASTON Autobiog. i. (ed. 2) 18 The Spare~rib Feast..took place immediately
after
the fatted ox had been killed.
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