| 单词 | hush puppy |
| 释义 | hush puppy in British English (hʌʃ ˈpʌpɪ) noun cookery, Southern US a cake of cornmeal bread that has been deep fried hush puppy in American English US a small ball of fried cornmeal dough hush puppy in American Englishnoun chiefly Southern U.S. a small, unsweetened cake or ball of cornmeal dough fried in deep fat Word origin [1915–20, Amer.; allegedly so called because such cakes were fed to dogs to keep them from beggingfor scraps while other dishes were cooked]This word is first recorded in the period 1915–20. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: collage, costar, feedback, markup, sovietExamples of 'hush puppy' in a sentence |
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