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hush puppy, hush-puppy|ˈhʌʃ ˈpʌpɪ|
[f. hush v.1 + puppy n.]
1. U.S. (See quots.)
1918Dialect Notes V. 18 Hushpuppy, a sort of bread prepared very quickly and without salt. 1942M. K. Rawlings Cross Creek Cookery 28 Fresh-caught fried fish without hush puppies are as men without women. 1947This Week Mag. (U.S.) 4 Oct. 27/1 What's a hush puppy? You mean you don't know that Southern fried bread like a miniature corn pone—but glorified? It's made of the white cornmeal of the South, smooth and fine as face powder. 1960Harper's Bazaar July 48 Crisp, brown ‘hush puppies’, crunchy morsels of deep-fried cornmeal batter. 1964Cookbk. (Amer. Heritage) (1967) 220 Hush Puppies are usually served with fried fish. 1967Daily News (N.Y.) 5 Mar. ii. 4 I'm going to eat hush-puppies, wear a snuffler and every night sing ‘Silent Night’.
2. The proprietary name (Hush Puppy) of a lightweight soft shoe. Also attrib.
1961Trade Marks Jrnl. 15 Nov. 1616/1 Hush Puppies. Shoes. Wolverine Shoe and Tanning Corporation. 1963Observer 13 Oct. 9/1 Abbott makes ‘Hush Puppies’, the lightweight..shoes. 1965Amer. Speech XL. 249 Hush puppies, a brand of nationally advertised shoes for men and women. 1966‘O. Mills’ Enemies of Bride xxiii. 196 An intelligent..woman in..Hush-puppy shoes. 1969P. Dickinson Pride of Heroes 38 Mr. Singleton wore rubber-soled Hush-Puppies which went squeak-squeak on the shiny surface. |