| 单词 | hog and hominy |
| 释义 | > as lemmashog and hominy b. The flesh of a pig used as food; pork, bacon. In later use chiefly U.S. (colloquial), esp. in hog and hominy. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > pork > [noun] swine flesheOE porkc1300 baconc1330 brawn1377 pig1381 pork flesh?a1425 boara1475 gricea1475 hog flesh1528 hog meat1573 grunting-peck1699 hog1744 pigmeat1754 1744 R. North & M. North Life Sir D. North & Rev. J. North 126 Others, of a meaner sort, he hath put off, by saying, that ‘he was bred to drink Wine, and eat Hog, and intended to do so still’. 1776 W. Hooper in Lett. James Murray (1901) 239 That I might enjoy in my own Cabin, eat my Hogg & Hominee without anything to make me afraid. 1799 Missionary Voy. S. Pacific Ocean xi. 143 The women are not allowed to eat hog. 1816 Massachusetts Spy 10 Jan. [If a man] can be content with hog and hommany, he can live easier in Ohio. 1845 Graham's Mag. Dec. 280/2 ‘I niver eats only twice of a day’, replied the hunter without a smile, or moving a muscle of his face. ‘And I niver eats hog, nohow’. 1854 T. B. Thorpe Hive of Bee Hunter 81 I can give you plenty to eat; for, besides hog and hominy, you can have bear-ham and bear-sausages. 1908 G. W. Cable Kincaid's Battery xlii. 223 In the last week he had eaten ‘hog and hominy’, and sipped cornmeal coffee, in lofty colloquy with Sidney Johnston and his ‘big generals’. 1992 F. Burroughs River Home iii. 85 ‘Hog and hominey's our food here in the piny woods’, said Mr. Edge, as his wife invited us to the little table. < as lemmas |
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