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hominy

/ˈhɒmɪni/

hominy noun: a food made from hulled corn (maize) kernels soaked in lye water, rinsed, then cooked and eaten; or, the rinsed kernels are dried and coarsely ground into hominy grits.

hominy: a food made from hulled corn (maize) kernels soaked in lye water, rinsed, then cooked and eaten;...
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Noun

hominy (usually uncountable, plural hominies)

  1. (usually) A food made from hulled corn (maize) kernels soaked in lye water, rinsed, then cooked and eaten; or, the rinsed kernels are dried and coarsely ground into hominy grits.
    • Then his plate was put before him: hominy grits and a scrap of bacon. He wanted to cry, like a child: ‘But, Mama, it's my birthday!’1953, James Baldwin, “The Seventh Day”, in Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Classics), London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    nixtamal

hominy meaning in Tamil, Tagalog and Indonesian

hominy in Tamil

சோளக்கூழ்

hominy in Tagalog

a food made from hulled maize
lagkitan

hominy in Indonesian

a food made from hulled maize
homini

Synonyms of hominy

Forms of hominy

pluralhominies

Origin of hominy

First recorded in 1629. From Powhatan ("Virginia Algonquian"), though the exact source word is in question: suggestions include uskatahomen, appuminnéonash (“parched corn”), and rokohamin (“parched, ground corn”), the last yielding also the unclipped rockahominy.

Words formed from hominy

Phrases with hominy

Questions about hominy

What does hominy mean?
Hominy means a food made from hulled corn (maize) kernels soaked in lye water, rinsed, then cooked and eaten; or, the rinsed kernels are dried and coarsely ground into hominy grits.
What is hominy in Tamil?
Hominy in Tamil is சோளக்கூழ். See Hominy meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is hominy?
Hominy is a noun.
How do you pronounce hominy?
Hominy is pronounced /ˈhɒmɪni/.
What is the plural of hominy?
The plural of hominy is hominies.

Words near hominy in the dictionary

  1. hominizing
  2. hominoid
  3. hominoids
  4. hominology
  5. Homintern
  6. hominy
  7. hominy snow
  8. hominy snows
  9. homiopathic
  10. homis
  11. homish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hominy (page history and authors); hominy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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