posset

give a sneck posset

archaic To give a rejection, refusal, or cold reception. Primarily heard in UK. Milton set to drinking in the town's tavern after his wealthy distant relations gave a sneck posset.
See also: give, posset, sneck

sneck posset

archaic A rejection, refusal, or cold reception; a closed door (as on a visitor). Primarily heard in UK. After receiving a veritable sneck posset from his wealthy distant relations, Milton set to drinking in the town's tavern for want of any other recourse.
See also: posset, sneck
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • give a sneck posset
  • sneck
  • sneck posset
  • knock-shop
  • wotcher
  • wotcha
  • cause célèbre
  • knocking shop
  • computer says no
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There's even a suggestion a Posset was used to get you over a cold or flu centuries back.
The posset was lovely, barely set and full of zip, topped with a loose compote of strawberries.
Make the posset. Bring the cream, milk and sugar to the boil and simmer for three minutes.
To finish, spoon a good helping of the strawberries on top of each posset and serve with shortbread
PER POSSET WITH 1 TBSP COMPOTE 970 kcals * protein 2g * carbs 58g * fat 81g * sat fat 50g * fibre none * sugar 58g * salt 0.1g
Lemon and lime posset with blueberry sorbet and sable biscuits INGREDIENTS For the posset 900ml double cream 250g sugar Juice and zest of 2 limes and 2 lemons METHOD Pour the cream and sugar into a pan and bring to the boil.
The Creamery has developed and launched three new cream based desserts; Strawberries & Cream, Lemon Posset & Raspberry and Rhubarb & Custard.
Eggnog itself can be traced back to an old English drink called posset. You can see the connection in the ingredients of a 17th-century recipe that lists "20 eggs, a `pottle' of good sweet cream, whole cinnamon, nutmeg and `sack' (known today as sherry)." Our forefathers used all of these ingredients for eggnog, but substituted Caribbean rum for sherry.
We were stuffed, but in the name of research, we shared a lemon and berry posset, which was refreshing after such rich mains.
This is a tale of a city, Ljouwert, the capital of Friesland, already lying in obscene neglect and dying an ugly death when Sil Posset begins his diary.
Many believe that nog is a descendent of a hot British drink called posset, a mix of eggs, milk and wine or ale.
Their drink was an adaptation of a Posset, a medicinal drink made by monks during the Middle Ages.
Franz Posset. Renaissance Monks: Monastic Humanism in Six Biographical Sketches.
German-American scholar of historical theology Posset describes the works of humanists who lived in monasteries around 1500, as distinct from other social groups within the humanist movement.
Among the group of scholars dealing with this question German-born Franz Posset holds a prominent position.