pone
pronunciation
How to pronounce pone in British English:
UK [pəʊn]
How to pronounce pone in American English:
US [poʊn]
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- Noun:
- cornbread often made without milk or eggs and baked or fried (Southern)
Word Origin
- pone (n.)
- 1630s, "American Indian bread," earlier appone, ponap (1610s), from Powhatan (Algonquian) apan "something baked," from apen "she bakes." Later used in Southern U.S. for any type of cornbread.
Example
- 1. He paused and gnawed the tough pone and scarlett shivered .
- 2. I wonder if I can trouble you to change a 5 pone note ?
- 3. After he had kissed melanie good-by , he went down to the kitchen where scarlett was wrapping a corn pone and some apples in a napkin .
- 4. Got any jam for this corn pone ?
- 5. I have some beans and corn pone .