marmite
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːˌmaɪt/
ipa: /ˈmɑɹˌmaɪt/
Etymology: From French marmite.
Senses: examples: text: Required: […] One tablespoonful of nutril or one small teaspoonful of marmite.
ref: c. 1910, Mrs. Eustace Miles, “Meatless Soups”, in Every Woman’s Encyclopædia, volume III, London, page 1852:
text: Stir a spoonful of marmite into some brown gravy, and pour over the potatoes, etc.
ref: 1912, Laura L. Ulrich, Good Food: How to Prepare It, Warburton, Vic.: Signs Publishing Company, page 61:
text: A teaspoonful of marmite, a dessertspoonful of a good brand of cod-liver oil, and two glasses of water between meals, would make the diet complete.
ref: 1935, Harry Roberts, editor, Everyman in Health and in Sickness, London: J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd., page 288:
text: A spoonful of marmite added to soups and gravies after they are cooked improves their flavour.
ref: 1939, Annual Report on the Health and Medical Services of the State of Queensland for the Year 1938-39, Brisbane, Qld.: […] Thomas Gilbert Hope, […], page 132:
text: The treatment of this particular form of anæmia lies in giving vitamin B, a suitable preparation being a teaspoonful of marmite three times a day, together with desiccated gastric mucosa.
ref: 1945, Wilfrid Sheldon, Diseases of Infancy and Childhood, 4th edition, London: J. & A. Churchill Ltd, page 439:
text: I crawled up and retrieved it and, wiping it clean on some leaves, looked at the label. “Marmite,” it read. / “You have beriberi,” he shouted. / “I know,” I replied from the mud. / “Take a spoonful of that a day,” he advised. / “Will it do any good?” / “Might,” he replied, and, returning firmly inside the palisade of the headquarters camp, indicated that the subject was closed. I crawled back to our camp, where I found the guards very cross that I had eluded them. I took a spoonful of marmite and, exhausted, fell asleep.
ref: 1953, Russell Braddon, The Naked Island, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, page 211:
text: Only a strong man can cut through the rind, but the inside, firm and juicy, we slice with onion, potato, carrot, parsnip – whatever there is – simmer till tender, then put through the liquidizer, bring to the consistency of cream with stock or milk, add nutmeg or mace as well as pepper and salt; if no stock, I add a spoonful of marmite, and always top of milk or a little cream.
ref: 1984, Dorothy Hammond Innes, “[The Months] January”, in Home Is My Garden, London: Harvill Press, →ISBN, page 30:
text: Finely grated cheddar cheese used 50/50 with bread paste, plus a spoonful of marmite, makes a fabulous tangy bait; it can be fozen^([sic]) and used at any time. Alternatively, try sausage-meat, again used 50/50 with bread paste, with additives like marmite, bovril or a crushed oxo cube kneaded in.
ref: 1991, John Wilson, Catch Tench (The Angling Times Library), London: Boxtree, published 1994, →ISBN, page 77:
text: 1 pint stock - made by adding a generous spoon of marmite to boiling water
ref: 1991, Brother Ramon, Heaven on Earth: A Personal Retreat Guide, London: Marshall Pickering, →ISBN, page 58:
text: The night is a spoonful of marmite being spread over the planets.
ref: 2001, Katie Bowes, “The Night Is…”, in Lucy Jeacock, editor, Poetic Voyages: Bristol, volume II, Peterborough, Cambs.: Young Writers, published 2002, →ISBN:
text: More informally: vegemite and marmite share some property.
ref: 2008 August 12, Luca Moretti, “The ontological status of minimal entities”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 1, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Marmite.