hominy

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   maize kernels treated with an alkali to remove the hulls, eaten whole or dried and ground into grits

   The cook simmered hominy with beans and green chiles until the kernels were tender.

Recorded in colonial Virginia in the seventeenth century and borrowed from a Powhatan language. The exact source form is disputed, but related recorded words referred to prepared, parched, or ground corn.

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