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Thanksgiving pie filling
Answer for the clue "Thanksgiving pie filling ", 9 letters:
mincemeat
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Word definitions for mincemeat in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, originally in the figurative sense of what someone plans to make of his enemy, an alteration of earlier minced meat (1570s); from mince (v.) + meat (n.). Mince-pie is attested from c.1600; as rhyming slang for "eye" it is attested from 1857.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. spiced mixture of chopped raisins and apples and other ingredients with or without meat
Usage examples of mincemeat.
Aunt Emma was famous for her mincemeat pies, and certainly she would have one in the pie-judging contest this year as in previous years.
Aunt Emma said nothing, and Tom knew there was no need to tell his uncle about the mincemeat in the cellar.
In the back, sitting in the middle of the seat, Aunt Emma held her carefully wrapped mincemeat pie and never said a word.
Tom and George were in the back with Aunt Emma, who once more held her mincemeat pie, minus three pieces which the contest judges had eaten.
Aunt Emma joined them it took just one look at her constant smile to know that her mincemeat pie had won first prize this year.
Shirley Castle made mincemeat of the policeman with the jug-ears for not explaining why he was visiting Owen in the first place.
He made mincemeat of her efforts by putting his heavy arm around her shoulders and tucking her into his side.
Not only in combat, but in those shitty Russian Poliakarpov biplanes that were turned into mincemeat by Messerschmitt 109s.
Believe me, a twelve hundred pound horse can make mincemeat of plastic.
They had fed him mincemeat pastries and filled him up with ale and their songs, vying for his attention.
Flotsam had edged towards Moses, and were now each side of him, showing their teeth, and he, who could have made mincemeat of them both, was obviously restraining himself from doing just that.
In the Saaz area we have a skirmish with the Russians who appear suddenly out of the haze and hope, in the intoxication of victory, to make mincemeat of us.
One tyrannosaurus, his flung-out leg half mincemeat from the thigh down, continued to drag out and gobble the guts of the triceratops he had slaughtered.
If all went as planned, the sack full of lead pellets would turn the ruler-in-exile of conquered Andhra into so much mincemeat.
Both of us eyed the little special doughballs filled with meat, the dense rum cakes and dark mincemeats.