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gritten

gritten adjective: made of or consisting of grits.

Adjective

gritten (comparative more gritten, superlative most gritten)

  1. (rare) Made of or consisting of grits.
    • The Walkers make their bread from cornmeal, which they grate on a piece of tin punched full of holes and fastened to a board. This is known as "gritten" bread.1919, Illustrated World, volume 32, page 732
    • He would go out into one of his cornfields and select a few ears of corn, the kernels of which could be barely dented with the thumb nail. These ears were converted into "gritten cornbread."1943, Bess Virginia Hicks Ehrmann, Back Trails of Indiana, page 160

Forms of gritten

comparativemore gritten
superlativemost gritten

Origin of gritten

From Middle English *grytten, grutten (“made of bran, coarse”), equivalent to grit + -en (“made of”).

Questions about gritten

What does gritten mean?
Gritten means made of or consisting of grits.
What part of speech is gritten?
Gritten is an adjective.

Words near gritten in the dictionary

  1. gritsome
  2. gritstone
  3. gritstones
  4. gritted
  5. gritted one's teeth
  6. gritten
  7. gritter
  8. gritters
  9. grittier
  10. grittiest
  11. grittily

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