Definitions for Hominy

Hominy hom·i·ny

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

Hominy is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 66 anagrams from letters in Hominy (himnoy).

Definitions for Hominy

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 Hominy

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 Hominy

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for Hominy
Scrable

14

Words with friends

14

Similar words for Hominy
Word of the day