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greven

/ɡɹivən/

greven noun: cracklings from rendered chicken fat.

Noun

greven (uncountable)

  1. Cracklings from rendered chicken fat.
    • a plate of chopped liver with schmaltz and chopped onion and chopped radish and greven (cracklings from rendered chicken fat)1974, Calvin Trillin, “Mao and Me”, in Alice, let's eat

Proper noun capitalized: Greven

Greven (plural Grevens)

  1. A surname.

Forms of greven

pluralGrevens

Origin of greven

From the same root as greaves, graves (“residue left after rendering animal fat”) and gribenes (“chicken cracklings and onions”). Compare older dialectal northern (Low) German forms like greven and greeven.

Questions about greven

What does greven mean?
Greven means cracklings from rendered chicken fat.
What part of speech is greven?
Greven can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce greven?
Greven is pronounced /ɡɹivən/.

Words near greven in the dictionary

  1. Gretzky's office
  2. Greuel
  3. Greuels
  4. greuous
  5. Greve
  6. greven
  7. Grevena
  8. Grevenmacher
  9. greviere
  10. grevieres
  11. grevilia

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