Broccolo

Like a wild weed meanwhile that infant grows, / and like a broccolo he’s soon in bloom: / he’s sent to school,[…]

“I believe I mustn’t start tealing yet awhile,” said the old man, regretfully plunging his long Cornish spade into the baked earth, from which insufficient stability the instrument fell with a thump on to the path. […] “I feel frightened, Mr. Champion,” said Jenny suddenly. […] “Supposing it wasn’t a person at all?” said Jenny desperately. “You know, like us?” / The old man considered for a moment this morbid fancy. / “That’s a wisht old thought,” he said at last, “and I don’t see no call for it at all. When I do teal a lily root, I don’t expect to see a broccolo come bursting up and annoying me.”

CELERY. (Apium graveolens.) / A cross between a Broccolo and a Cabbage, but not now better for attention.[…]CHOU DE BURGHLEY. / A cross between a Broccolo and a Cabbage, but not now grown to any extent.

(Open Classes.) / Judge: Mr L. Page. /[…]Two broccoli. One entry—G. H. Bayles 1.[…] / One broccolo. One entry—Ivan Boyes 1.

“Filler” item in a daily newspaper: “The singular of broccoli is broccolo.” / In other words: / Customer: “I’ll have a dish of broccoli, please.” / Waiter: “I’m veddy soddy, sir, but we don’t have a single broccolo in the place today.” / And that ends our little lesson on the etiquette of grammar for today. You may go now, children—and never forget, we always eat every last broccolo on our plate.”

The idea of enticing women aboard with the promise of a banana burgeoned like a blooming broccolo.

Technically, there is no such thing as one zucchini. We rarely refer to one spaghetto or one broccolo, because it’s not considered good form to serve just one. But there are a lot of broccoli - a whole bunch, in fact, - on a single stem, whereas there is only one zucchino.

If you only ate one branch of the broccoli on your plate, you ate a broccolo.

Some always suffer a bad hair day while others eat a broccolo

> >> Or "I didn't use much to like broccoli." / > >I didn't use to lie broccoli much. / > It is best to be honest with broccoli. They see right through a lie. / You can fool one broccolo all of the time; you can fool all broccoli some of the time; but you can't fool all broccoli all of the time.