different between finochio vs finochie

English

Noun

finochio (plural finochi)

1. Alternative spelling of finocchio
   • 1744, John Bapti?t Gelli [aut.] and an unknown translator, Circe (James Bettenham), pages 50–51

     If it ?eems ?o ?trange to ye, I would not have you re?t ?atisfied with my bare word for it. Let us begin to examine at home, and you will find among?t us ?erpents, that each of the kind, as ?oon as awaken’d by the ?pring, perceiving his ?kin ?tarky and rivelled, by lying the whole winter folded up in one po?ition, makes directly to the finochio, and crams him?elf with it, till it makes him with ea?e ca?t his old ?lough.

   • 1767, Thomas Mawe and John Abercrombie, Every Man His Own Gardener (19th ed., 1809), page 658

     Finochio, or French fennel; for soups, sallads, &c. when the bottom part is blanched, by earthing up.

   • 1796, Charles Mar?hall, An Introduction to the Knowledge and Practice of Gardening (2nd ed., 1798, John Rider), page 256

     Finochio is a ?ort of dwarf fennel, very aromatic; the thick ?talks of which, earthed up, when nearly full grown, five or ?ix inches to blanch, are u?ed in ?oups and ?allads, or ?liced, and eat alone with oil, vinegar, &c.

   • 2008, Nancy Frey and Douglas Fisher, Teaching Visual Literacy, page 153

     What’s the matter with you? Is this how you turned out? A Hollywood finochio that cries like a woman?

English

Noun

finochie (plural not attested)

1. Obsolete spelling of finocchio
   • 1733, Practical Hu?bandman and Planter, volume 1, pages 139 and 185

     The Finochi, or Finochio of the Italians, and which, from a literal Termination generally put to Engli?h Words, I call Finochie, is a Kind of Fennel; which when tied up, and blanched a little, is one of the whol?ome?t Aromaticks that any Body can eat, (but is withal a little two ?trong for ?ome Palates,) yet is in great Reque?t among?t Valetudinarians, or tho?e who endeavour after Health and long Life.

     […]

     Once a Week, or Fortnight, or thereabout, al?o ought the Gardener to be putting in a few Finochie-Seeds; and to be tran?planting out tho?e Cauliflore, Brocaulie, Borecaule, and Savoy Plants, with which the Tables of the Curious are to be furni?h’d between Michaelmas and Chri?tmas.

   • 1868, William Nathaniel White, J. Van Buren, James Camak, Gardening for the South, page 328:

     Fennel is a good deal used, in continental Europe, in soups, fish-sauces, garnishes, and salads. It is also considerably used in England, but less with us. The Italians blanch and eat the stalks of one variety called Finochie, like celery.

Anagrams

• fenochii