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Don't ever take a dramatic lesson. They will try to put your voice in a dinner jacket, and people like their hominy and grits in everyday clothes.
Dale Robertson

Meaning of "hominy" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD HOMINY

Probably of Algonquian origin.
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PRONUNCIATION OF HOMINY

hominy  [ˈhɒmɪnɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HOMINY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hominy is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HOMINY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

hominy

Hominy

Hominy is a food which consists of dried maize kernels which have been treated with an alkali in a process called nixtamalization.

Definition of hominy in the English dictionary

The definition of hominy in the dictionary is coarsely ground maize prepared as a food by boiling in milk or water.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HOMINY


bigeminy
baɪˈdʒemɪnɪ
crimine
ˈkrɪmɪnɪ
criminy
ˈkrɪmɪnɪ
dominee
ˈduːmɪnɪ
dominie
ˈdɒmɪnɪ
feminie
ˈfɛmɪnɪ
geminy
ˈdʒɛmɪnɪ
ignominy
ˈɪɡnəˌmɪnɪ
jiminy
ˈdʒɪmɪnɪ
jimminy
ˈdʒɪmɪnɪ
Melpomene
mɛlˈpɒmɪnɪ
micromini
ˈmaɪkrəʊˌmɪnɪ
miminy-piminy
ˌmɪmɪnɪˈpɪmɪnɪ
mini
ˈmɪnɪ
minnie
ˈmɪnɪ
niminy-piminy
ˈnɪmɪnɪˈpɪmɪnɪ
postliminy
pəʊstˈlɪmɪnɪ
Rimini
ˈrɪmɪnɪ
supermini
ˈsuːpəˌmɪnɪ
verminy
ˈvɜːmɪnɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HOMINY

homiletic
homiletical
homiletically
homiletics
homilies
homilist
homily
hominess
homing
homing device
homing guidance
homing instinct
homing pigeon
hominid
hominine
hominisation
hominization
hominize
hominoid
hominy grits

WORDS THAT END LIKE HOMINY

bliny
brainy
destiny
grainy
liny
Manifest Destiny
miny
mutiny
piny
Pliny
rainy
scrutiny
shiny
spiny
tiny
twiny
veiny
viny
whiny
winy

Synonyms and antonyms of hominy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hominy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HOMINY

Find out the translation of hominy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hominy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hominy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

霍米尼
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sémola de maíz
570 millions of speakers

English

hominy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मक्का का दलिया
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عصيدة الذرة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

мамалыга
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

canjica
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দুধে বা জলে সিদ্ধ ভুট্টাচূর্ণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

semoule de maïs
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bersungguh-sungguh
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Maismehl
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ひき割りトウモロコシ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

껍질을 벗긴 옥수수
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Jebule
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cháo bắp nấu với nước hay sửa
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஹோமினி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मासा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kaba mısır unu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

mais macinato e cotto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

mamałyga
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

мамалига
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

mămăligă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

hominy
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hominy
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Nixtamal
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hominy
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hominy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HOMINY»

The term «hominy» is quite widely used and occupies the 42.440 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HOMINY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «hominy» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «hominy» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hominy

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2 QUOTES WITH «HOMINY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word hominy.
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Kathy Freston
I was weaned on chicken-fried steak and hominy grits with goopy gravy all over. I loved meat and wore fur.
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Dale Robertson
Don't ever take a dramatic lesson. They will try to put your voice in a dinner jacket, and people like their hominy and grits in everyday clothes.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOMINY»

Discover the use of hominy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hominy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America
Opie maps the complex cultural identity of African Americans as it developed through eating habits over hundreds of years.
Frederick Douglass Opie, 2013
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Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook
Fresh Hominy ominy is whole corn kernels that have been soaked in a lime bath, and then hulled, a method of preservation that gives the corn a distinctive flavor. Dried, this is the corn that is ground to make masa harina, used for making corn ...
Beth Hensperger, Julie Kaufmann, 2004
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Shucks, Shocks, and Hominy Blocks: Corn As a Way of Life in ...
Rural folk usually boiled the swollen, whole-grain hominy and ate it with salt, butter or animal fat, and meat; or they cooked it with butter and sweetened it with maple syrup, sugar, molasses, or honey. A traveler in the southern Appalachian ...
Nicholas P. Hardeman, 1999
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Renewing America's Food Traditions: Saving and Savoring the ...
It produces The yellow and white strains of Hickory King may be the finest hominy corns that North Americans have ever known. They are eight-rowed, large- grained, small-cobbed landraces of the Old Southern Dents, a group of corns that  ...
Gary Paul Nabhan, 2008
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Farmers' Bulletin
... 100 200 :soo 1 If the legume is clover, add 100 pounds of cottonseed meal to the grain mixture. 1 One-half grass and one-half legume. Part or all of the corn in the mixtures in table 1 may be replaced by barley, wheat, kafir, or hominy feed.
‎1940
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The Original Jamaican Hominy Corn Porridge Recipe
The Original Jamaican Hominy Corn Porridge Recipe, is a century old recipe handed down by my Great Grandmother.
Millicent Taffe, 2013
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Chemistry and Technology of Cereals as Food and Feed
Hominy feed will contain about 5% fat and 10% protein. It is used by formula feed manufacturers. Uses and specifications of products.— The coarsest product of the dry milling process is generally called hominy grits or flaking grits. These are  ...
Samuel A. Matz, 1991
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Bill Neal's Southern Cooking
In the southern United States, grits refers to the ground product of hominy. Hominy has had many suggested etymologies, all of which center around native American word combinations meaning parched corn. Roger Williams in 1643 ...
Bill Neal, 1989
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Hominy
Hominy or nixtamal is dried maize kernels which have been treated with an alkali in a process called nixtamalization.Some recipes using hominy include menudo (a spicy tripe and hominy soup), pozole or posole (a stew of hominy and pork, ...
Janeka Ane Madisyn, 2011
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Maize: Grits, Transgenic Maize, Hominy, Corn Syrup, Sweet ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
General Books LLC, Source Wikipedia, Books, LLC, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HOMINY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hominy is used in the context of the following news items.
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In Santa Fe, City, Sky and History - The New York Times
Ten minutes north of Cerrillos is Santa Fe proper, filled with restaurants that serve posole, a stew traditionally made with hominy, lime and chile, ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
2
La Fia owners open Wilmington Mexican restaurant
Sides include chorizo spiced hominy ($4) and corn and mushroom tamales ($5). "We're not trying to be traditional, but we're staying within the ... «The News Journal, Jul 15»
3
Standup paddle boarding booming in WNC - The Greenville News
“It's an amazing, active, beautiful way to get outside,” said Levesque, who teaches at Hominy Creek, where it flows into the French Broad River ... «Greenville News, Jul 15»
4
Dry Conditions in Seven Mountain Counties
At Hominy Creek River Park, 'abnormally dry' conditions don't deflate the anticipation. According to Asheville Adventure Rentals, signs of near ... «WLOS, Jul 15»
5
Former area HS golf standouts Snouffer, Ignatuk look to crack top 10 …
... 1-over-par total of 214 to share 13th with Tyler Brewington of Hominy Hill Golf Club. He earned his finish by posting rounds of even-par 71, ... «New Jersey Herald, Jul 15»
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WASUP, Asheville? Stand-up paddleboarding booming in WNC
"It's an amazing, active, beautiful way to get outside," said Levesque, who teaches at Hominy Creek, where it flows into the French Broad River ... «Asheville Citizen-Times, Jul 15»
7
Loveland Eagles to Host 4th Annual “Christmas in July”
To become a sponsor or donate to this event, contact Margie Hominy 513-442-2672. For information regarding the Poker/Toy Run, contact ... «Loveland Magazine, Jul 15»
8
Southern Perspective: Gabbing about grits
The food is actually ground hominy, and hominy is dried corn kernels with the outside hulls and inside germs of the kernels removed. Grits are ... «Pensacola News Journal, Jul 15»
9
Tribe tends to sacred flame 200 years after exit from Alabama
Women in the many shelters surrounding the circle hovered over wood stoves cooking fry bread, beans, hominy and chicken for the men who ... «Anniston Star, Jul 15»
10
Pozole Verde for a Fresh Summertime Meal
My weakness. It is a marvelous souplike hominy stew, usually made with pork — economical, flavorful cuts like shoulder, trotters or meaty ribs. «New York Times, Jul 15»

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