gravy ring
noun Northern Irish informal
A ring-shaped doughnut: a break for coffee and gravy rings...
- He said he saw a sign today stating that all gravy rings were 10p.
- He sings about buying pasty suppers and finishes the song with references to other Belfast delicacies such as gravy rings.
- It was a brilliant experience for me to work as the gravy ring boy in the bakery for summers.
Origin
1960s: from a sense of gravy meaning 'fat, grease' + ring1.
- histrionicism
- histrionise
- histrionism
- histrionize
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- hit-and-miss
- hit-and-run
- hitch
- Hitchcockian
- Hitchcock, Sir Alfred
- Hitchens, Ivon
- hitcher
- hitch-hike
- hitch-hiker
- hitch one's wagon to a star
- hi-tech
- Hite, Shere
- hithe
- hither
- hither and thither (also hither and yon)
- hither and yon
- hitherto
- hitherward
- hit home
- hit it off