hominy
/ˈhɒmɪni
/noun [mass noun] US
Coarsely ground corn (maize) used to make grits: [as modifier]: hominy grits...
- In this case what is being coarsely ground is hominy.
- I was up at 5:00 or 5:30 going out to the smokehouse for ham, cooking hominy grits, and making biscuits.
- We're not sure if Martin had anything to do with it, but we did find traces of hominy grits mixed in with the samples.
Origin
Shortened from Virginia Algonquian uskatahomen.
Rhymes
- rough-skinned
- rough-skinned plum
- rough sleeper
- rough sleeping
- rough someone up
- rough spin
- rough spleenwort
- rough-spoken
- rough-spun
- rough-stalked meadow grass
- roughstock
- rough string
- rough stuff
- rough-tail
- rough-tailed snake
- rough-tailed stickleback
- water footprint
- Waterford
- Waterford glass
- water forget-me-not
- water fountain
- waterfowl
- waterfowler
- waterfowling
- water frame