scallion
(ˈskælɪən)
Forms: 4 scalone, scaloun, 5 scalon, scalyone, 5–6 scalyon, 6 scallyon, 6–7 scalion, 7 skallion, 6– scallion.
[a. AF. scal(o)un = OF. eschalo(i)gne:—pop.L. *escalonia, for class. L. Ascalōnia (sc. cæpa onion), f. Ascalon, name of a seaport of Palestine. Cf. Sp. escalona; also It. scalogno (:—Ascalōnium, sc. allium).]
a. U.S. The shallot. b. The Welsh onion or ‘chibol’. c. An onion which fails to bulb but forms a long neck and strong blade; = spring onion s.v. spring n.1 7 b. d. U.S. = leek 1.
| 13.. Coer de L. 6834 For thy lyff and thy barouns He wyl not geve two skalouns. 1393 Langl. P. Pl. C. ix. 310 Perselye and scalones, Chiboles and chiruylles. a 1400 Octouian 1313 He seyde hy ner worth a scaloun Alle y-fere. c 1440 Palladius on Husb. iv. 635 In oil & Iuce of scalons longe With pepur mixt, ennoynte her pomys. 1547 Boorde Brev. Health xv. 12 b, They muste eat no salades, garlyke, ramsons, onyons, chybolles, or scalyons. 1551 Turner Herbal 96 A scalyon differeth from an onyon in that it hath a great deale lesse heade and a longer neck, and thycker. 1596 Nashe Saffron Walden F 2 Not content to..sustaine his hungry bodie with wythred scallions and greene cheese. 1620 Venner Via Recta vii. 139 Scallions and Chibols are much of the nature of Onions. 1699 [see cibol]. 1786 Abercrombie Gard. Assist. 9 Let such as have sprouted be planted for Spring scallions. 1855 Delamer Kitch. Gard. 39 To supply..a substitute for scallions, whether the term is interpreted to mean the green tops of onions which do not bulb in the spring and the shoots from old bulbs of the preceding or former years, or the Welsh onion. 1882 Garden 30 Dec. 577/1 Scallions find favour with many who object to Onions generally. 1902 L. H. Bailey Cycl. Amer. Hort. IV. 1622/2 Scallion, a name for the Shallot; also used for onions that do not make good bulbs but remain with thick necks. 1943 H. M. Fox Gardening for Good Eating ix. 135 When the [onion] seedlings are thinned, they can be eaten as scallions. 1963 [see dandelion greens s.v. dandelion 3]. 1965 P. De Vries Let me count Ways xii. 159 Several stalks of crisp celery and a scallion or two left over from my lunch. 1969 Yearbk. Agric. (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 189/2 Green onions, shallots, and leeks are sometimes called ‘scallions’. 1978 Chicago June 217/1 Other delicacies might be fresh crab legs..and transparent noodles studded with shrimp, scallions, and black mushrooms. |
| attrib. and Comb. c 1550 Lloyd Treas. Health xiii. F iij b, Put oyle & scalion seed together. 1580 Baret Alv., A Scallion onion, Ascalonia. a 1625 Beaum. & Fl. Love's Cure ii. i, What a scallion fac'd-rascall 'tis! |