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Hominy   /hˈɑmɪni/   Listen
Hominy

noun
(Written also homony)
1.
Hulled corn with the bran and germ removed.



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"Hominy" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Fried hominy," was the unexpected reply, uttered in a sharp, distinct voice. The children shouted and Eyebright laughed, but Freddy only smiled faintly in a condescending way. And now Eyebright remembered that she was on her road to the cave,—a fact quite forgotten ...
— Eyebright - A Story • Susan Coolidge
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... foes, for an array of bristling bayonets was thrust through the bars long enough to hang our clothes on, and fierce enough to suck every drop of blood from our trembling limbs, and our only consolation was that our invariable diet of 'hog and hominy' had so reduced the vital fluid, that our tormentors would starve though we ...
— The Gentleman from Everywhere • James Henry Foss
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... They looked at life from a common standpoint, and that standpoint was not always elevated. Human nature claimed its rights. When his hunger was satisfied and, to use his own expression, he was full of hog and hominy, the Confederate soldier found time to discuss the operations in which he was engaged. Pipe in mouth, he could pass in review the strategy and tactics of both armies, the capacity of his generals, and the bearing of his enemies, and on each one of these questions, for he was the shrewdest ...
— Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War • G. F. R. Henderson
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... in a quavering baritone, as he stirred the hominy cooking in a kettle swung over a wood fire in the "kitchen" on ...
— The Campfire Girls on Ellen's Isle - The Trail of the Seven Cedars • Hildegard G. Frey
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... people were anticipating pleasant feasts of maize-bread, and "hominy," with "mash and milk" and various other dishes, that with Totty's skill could be manufactured out of the ...
— The Bush Boys - History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family • Captain Mayne Reid
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