Definitions for frumenties

frumenties fru·men·ty

Spelling: [froo-muh n-tee]
IPA: /ˈfru mən ti/

Frumenties is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 724 anagrams from letters in frumenties (eefimnrstu).

Definitions for frumenties

noun

  1. a dish of hulled wheat boiled in milk and seasoned with sugar, cinnamon, and raisins.

Origin of frumenties

1350-1400; Middle English frumentee Old French, equivalent to frument grain (Latin frūmentum) + -ee -y3

Examples for frumenties

The frumenty pot welcomes home the harvest cart, and the garland of flowers crowns the Captain of the reapers.

She said "Come in," wearily, thinking it was the frumenty and the Christmas cakes.

He indicated the Blue Ridge with a bird-like jerk, and helped himself again to frumenty.

Can't give you much,—mysterious inward complaint, myself,—can't eat anything but frumenty.

A dish once prominent at Christmas was “frumenty” or “furmety” (variously spelt, and derived from the Latin frumentum, corn).

Moreover the cellaress had to give the ladies “frumenty”, for which she laid in wheat and three gallons of milk.

But, to Daoud's relief, Fra Tomasso only shut his eyes and shook his head, his cheeks quivering gently like a bowl of frumenty.

frumenty, which is made of wheat boiled in milk was a standing dish at every harvest supper.

But the most important harvest, after gleaning for frumenty, was the blackberries.

Word Value for frumenties
Scrable

16

Words with friends

18

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