Crossword clues for hominy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hominy \Hom"i*ny\, n. [From North American Indian auh['u]minea parched corn.] Maize hulled and broken, and prepared for food by being boiled in water. [U.S.] [Written also homony.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1629, first recorded by Capt. John Smith, probably from Powhatan (Algonquian) appuminneonash "parched corn," probably literally "that which is ground or beaten." See grits.
Wiktionary
n. A food made from hulled corn (maize) kernels soaked in lye water, rinsed, then cooked and eaten; or, the rinsed kernels are dried and coarsely ground into hominy grits.
WordNet
n. hulled corn with the bran and germ removed
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 1208
Land area (2000): 1.980150 sq. miles (5.128565 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.001258 sq. miles (0.003258 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.981408 sq. miles (5.131823 sq. km)
FIPS code: 35850
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 36.417141 N, 96.393423 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 74035
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Hominy
Wikipedia
Hominy is a food which consists of dried maize kernels that have been treated with an alkali in a process called nixtamalization.
Hominy is dried mixed kernels, part of the Native American cuisine.
Hominy may also refer to:
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Hominy, Oklahoma, a city
- Hominy Indians, a former professional football team from the above city
- Hominy Falls, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
- Hominy Hill Golf Course, a public golf course in Colts Neck, New Jersey
Usage examples of "hominy".
Lost Moon Canyon, through which ran Hominy Creek, was the roughest place on the Bluestem Ranches.
Succotash, clam chowder, hominy, corn pone, cranberry sauce, johnnycakes, even Boston baked beans and Brunswick stew were all Indian dishes.
In addition to these proper names we have from the Indians wigwam, squaw, hammock, tomahawk, canoe, mocassin, hominy, etc.
Cumberlands, the annual mule fair in Columbia, Saroyan, Steinbeck, and Spillane, catfish, Pittsburgh-plus, raspberry sherbert, late model cars, and the Right way to serve hominy grits.
We dickered again over hominy grits and sidemeat for supper, and we dickered at breakfast, but about that time I got awful busy making up my pack, talking to the Tinker and the like, and he began to think he'd lost me.
Lunch was choice of corn chowder or jellied consomme, cheese souffle, fried chicken, corned beef and cabbage, hominy grits with syrup, egg plant au gratin, little pearl onions scalloped with cucumbers, baked stuffed tomatoes, sweet potato surprise, German-fried Irish potatoes, tossed endive, coleslaw with sour cream, pineapple and cottage cheese with lettuce.
He found three pork chops, two eggs, a saucepan hall-filled with cold hominy grits and a serving dish containing dandelion greens and okra that had been boiled with pigs feet.
They were having baked ham, lye hominy, stewed okra and corn, Southern biscuits, and finished with sweet-potato pie and muscatel wine.
There was a bottle of black-strap molasses, a box of Quick Hominy Grits, and a can of pink salmon.
Chase, entered the dining room of the now comfortable but entirely resplendent house at Sixth and E to be greeted by his daughter Kate, both comfortable and resplendent in morning robe, as she presided over a vast breakfast of buttermilk cakes and honey, of two kinds of Virginia sausage, and hominy grits with red-eye gravy, a rebel dish to which he was addicted, and Kate not.
Those who lived 'round about used to say that Sacketts and shootin' went together like hog meat an' hominy.
We had several presents from the women of corn, boiled hominy, soft corn, etc.