broccolo

Example Sentences

• "Like a wild weed meanwhile that infant grows, / and like a broccolo he’s soon in bloom: / he’s sent to school,[…]"
• "“I believe I mustn’t start tealing yet awhile,” said the old man, regretfully plunging his long Cornish spade into the baked earth, from which insufficient stability the instrument fell with a thump on to the path. […] “I feel frightened, Mr. Champion,” said Jenny suddenly. […] “Supposing it wasn’t a person at all?” said Jenny desperately. “You know, like us?” / The old man considered for a moment this morbid fancy. / “That’s a wisht old thought,” he said at last, “and I don’t see no call for it at all. When I do teal a lily root, I don’t expect to see a broccolo come bursting up and annoying me.”"
• "CELERY. (Apium graveolens.) / A cross between a Broccolo and a Cabbage, but not now better for attention.[…]CHOU DE BURGHLEY. / A cross between a Broccolo and a Cabbage, but not now grown to any extent."
• "(Open Classes.) / Judge: Mr L. Page. /[…]Two broccoli. One entry—G. H. Bayles 1.[…] / One broccolo. One entry—Ivan Boyes 1."
• "“Filler” item in a daily newspaper: “The singular of broccoli is broccolo.” / In other words: / Customer: “I’ll have a dish of broccoli, please.” / Waiter: “I’m veddy soddy, sir, but we don’t have a single broccolo in the place today.” / And that ends our little lesson on the etiquette of grammar for today. You may go now, children—and never forget, we always eat every last broccolo on our plate.”"
• "The idea of enticing women aboard with the promise of a banana burgeoned like a blooming broccolo."