hominy

First recorded in 1629. From Powhatan ("Virginia Algonquian"), though the exact source word is in question: suggestions include uskatahomen,[1] appuminnéonash (“parched corn”),[2][3] and rokohamin (“parched, ground corn”),[4] the last yielding also the unclipped rockahominy.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɒmɪni/

  • Audio (Southern England)

    (file)

• Homophone: harmony (god-guard merger and weak vowel merger)

hominy (usually uncountable, plural hominies)

1. A food made from hulled corn (maize) kernels soaked in lye water, rinsed, then cooked and eaten; or, the rinsed kernels are dried and coarsely ground into hominy grits.

   Synonym: nixtamal

   • 1953, James Baldwin, “The Seventh Day”, in Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Classics), London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN:

     Then his plate was put before him: hominy grits and a scrap of bacon. He wanted to cry, like a child: ‘But, Mama, it's my birthday!’

• hominy snow

• hominy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia