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cornmeal mush

n. cornmeal boiled in water [syn: mush]

Usage examples of "cornmeal mush".

The woman at whose hearth I sat offered me a gourd of spruce beer and some kind of cornmeal mush as refreshment.

Having seen them off with a suitable breakfast-cornmeal mush mixed with pigeon livers and fresh apples-those of us not in the hunting party repaired to the houses, to pass the time in basketry, sewing, and talk.

His food is of the coarsest kind, consisting for the most part of cornmeal mush, which often finds it way from the wooden tray to his mouth in an oyster shell.

The demoness formed momentarily into a big steaming bowl of cornmeal mush.

For food the slaves got a bucket of cornmeal mush, day after day after day.

Herzer considered asking if they had cornmeal mush or chitlins but decided that it was time to start playing the part of good little aide.

There was a course of yellow cornmeal mush, from cornmeal bushes, and fine chocolate milk from cocoa-nuts.

I had to go and build the blocks on you people so thoroughly that The Bromgrev himself couldn't get through without making such cornmeal mush of your insides that he'd get no information!

Charmaine had gotten up even before him this morning and had prepared a huge breakfast of thick Cajun boudin sausages, scrambled eggs, toast, her own version of couche-couche, which was fried cornmeal mush served with brown sugar, butter, and milk, and lots of thick chicory coffee.