Definitions for hominies

hominies hom·i·ny

Spelling: [hom-uh-nee]
IPA: /ˈhɒm ə ni/

Hominies is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 208 anagrams from letters in hominies (ehiimnos).

Definitions for hominies

noun

  1. whole or ground hulled corn from which the bran and germ have been removed by bleaching the whole kernels in a lye bath (lye hominy) or by crushing and sifting (pearl hominy)

Origin of hominies

1620-30, Americanism; Virginia Algonquian (E spelling) uskatahomen, usketchamun a nominalized passive v., literally, that which is treated (in the way specified by the unidentified initial el

Examples for hominies

In some households the corn was pounded into hominy in wooden mortars.

To your women I present this iron corn-mill to grind their hominy.

The few farmers who reside there live mainly on hog and hominy.

Tom-fuller was made from beaten corn and tasted sort of like hominy.

Add enough meal and hominy to make a batter, and bake quickly.

You are to go with him, and then I shall have no one to remind me when I am hungry, and bring me hominy.

The water in which the hominy is cooked should remain on it.

By following in his footsteps we learned about succotash and hominy.

Just by luck, I have a few cases of American oatmeal and hominy grits.

You have coffee and hominy and toast and fried potatoes and all that?

Word Value for hominies
Scrable

14

Words with friends

14

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