hominy
pronunciation
How to pronounce hominy in British English:
UK [ˈhɒmɪni]
How to pronounce hominy in American English:
US [ ˈhɑːmɪni]
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- Noun:
- hulled corn with the bran and germ removed
Word Origin
- hominy
- hominy: [17] Hominy, a gruel or porridge made from coarsely ground maize kernels, is a North American dish, and appropriately enough its linguistic origins are probably American too. A likely source is Algonquian appuminnéonash ‘parched corn’, a compound noun formed from appwóon ‘he bakes’ and minneash ‘grains, corn’. The first reference to it in an English text is by Captain John Smith, an early English colonist in America, in 1629: ‘Their servants commonly feed upon Milk Homini, which is bruised Indian corn pounded, and boiled thick, and milk for the sauce’.
- hominy (n.)
- 1629, first recorded by Capt. John Smith, probably from Powhatan (Algonquian) appuminneonash "parched corn," probably literally "that which is ground or beaten." See grits.
Example
- 1. So scarlett sent prissy down to warm up the breakfast hominy and feed him .
- 2. I had never had hominy and I instantly fell in love with the white , toothsome corn .
- 3. The heavy hominy stuck in her throat like glue and never before had the mixture of parched corn and ground-up yams that passed for coffee been so repulsive .