quarrender
A heritage apple variety name found in English dialect, particularly the West Country.
Definitions
A heritage apple variety name found in English dialect, particularly the West Country. The quarrender (also spelled quarantine apple or quarter-hundred) was a small, early-ripening red apple prized for its sweet flavour. The name likely derives from French 'carreaux' (square), referencing the apple's somewhat flat shape.
She packed a quarrender in his satchel — they were the sweetest apples in the orchard that summer.
Comments
(UK, dialect) A kind of red apple.
Comments
Used in
Have a better definition?
Add your own interpretation of "quarrender".
🇬🇧About British & Irish slang slang
UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
See all British & Irish slang slang on Slangora.
Tags
Other words near "quarrender" (Q)
Browse all slang words starting with Q.
Related terms
People also read
Semantically related
- quanked57%
A vivid English dialect past-participle, recorded in Somerset and Dorset glossaries, suggesting being thoroughly conquered by exhaustion — as if physically pressed down. Related to 'quank', possibly onomatopoeic of collapsing. Used in farming communities after harvest or heavy fieldwork.
- costard56%
(British) A large cooking apple.
- ratheripe54%
(UK, dialect) A variety of apple that ripens early.
- costard53%
The tree on which large cooking apples grow.