congee

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Leave, formal permission for some action, (originally and particularly)
2. isim Formal permission to leave; a passport.
3. isim Formal dismissal; (figurative) any dismissal; (originally & particularly humorously ironic) abrupt dismissal without ceremony.

   “So courteous conge both did giue and take, With right hands plighted, pledges of good will.”

4. isim Formal leavetaking; (figurative) any farewell.
5. isim A fee paid to make another go away, (particularly) alms to a persistent beggar.
6. isim A bow, curtsey, or other gesture (originally) made at departure but (later) including at greeting or in obeissance or respect.

   “As salutations, reverences, or conges, by which some doe often purchase the honour, (but wrongfully) to be humble, lowly, and courteous[…].”

7. fiil To give formal permission to leave; to dismiss.
8. fiil To give formal permission to do something; to license.
9. fiil To take congee: to leave ceremoniously.
10. fiil To make a congee: to bow, curtsey, etc., (particularly dialectal) while leaving; (figuratively) to make obeissance, show respect, or defer to someone or something.
11. isim A type of thick rice porridge or soup, sometimes prepared with vegetables and/or meat.

    “In a past life in Fuzhou, it represented some reality other than the one of daily congee and pickled turnips, cabbage and boiled rip soup.”