pennet Obs. exc. local.
(ˈpɛnɪt)
Forms: 5 penett(e, 6 pennutte, pennite, 6– pennet.
[f. as penide with change of suffix. Cf. OIt. peneto, It. pennito barley-sugar, OF. penites (1359 in Godef.).]
A piece or stick of barley-sugar (or some similar confection); = penide.
(In 19th c. a trade term for a sweetmeat of the toffee kind, flavoured with lemon, peppermint, etc.: see quot. 1883.)
| 1470–1 in Mem. Ripon (Surtees) III. 216 Penettes, 4d. 1576 Baker Jewell of Health 93 b, Take of Dates, of Reysins, of Pennites of Sugar..of eche six ounces. 1611 Cotgr., Penide, a Pennet; the little wreath of sugar taken in a cold. 1616 Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 371 It serueth..for the making of Almond milke, Potage, Pennets, Marchpanes, and other such daintie deuises. [1883 Huddersf. Gloss., Pennett, a kind of sweet, of the humbug species, cut in form like a double pyramid. 1887 Label from Confectioner's Shop, Durham, Lemon Pennets.] |