WordNet
hush puppy
n. deep-fried cornbread ball (Southern) [syn: hushpuppy]
Usage examples of "hush puppy".
During Vietnam it picked up the name Hush Puppy, since it was used more often to silence barking dogs and honking ducks than human sentries.
He explained that Southerners had become so sensitive about their reputation for being shit-squishing rednecks that all the presenters on TV and radio tried to sound as if they came from the North and had never in their whole lives nibbled a hush puppy or sniffed a grit.