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mawmenny

/ˈmɔːməni/

mawmenny noun: a dish eaten in later medieval England, made with spice and almost always with boneless meat from poultry (usually teased or mashed; most recipes name capon as an option), usually containing wine and either sugar or honey.

Noun

mawmenny (uncountable)

  1. (historical) A dish eaten in later medieval England, made with spice and almost always with boneless meat from poultry (usually teased or mashed; most recipes name capon as an option), usually containing wine and either sugar or honey.
    • […]a remark certainly borne out by Wynnere's list, which includes: wild geese, bitterns, snipe, larks, linnets (sprinkled with sugar!), woodcock, woodpecker, teal, and titmice, the meal to be rounded off with rabbits, pasties, pies, mawmenny and custard pies!2000, “"Of Fish and Flesh and Tender Breede Of Win both White and Reede": Eating and Drinking in Middle English Narrative Texts”, in Patricia Shaw, Obra Reunida de Patricia Shaw, Oviedo: Universidad...
    • What is "different" here is the absence of the more elaborate aristocratic favorites of earlier times. such as Mawmenny.2002, Constance B. Hieatt, “Medieval Britain”, in Melitta Weiss Adamson, editor, Regional Cuisines of Medieval Europe: A Book of Essays, New York: Routledge, →ISBN, page 38

Origin of mawmenny

Borrowed from Middle English mawmene, from Anglo-Norman maumenee, an alteration of Arabic مأمونية (maʔmūniyya) after malmener, maumener (“to mistreat”).

Questions about mawmenny

What does mawmenny mean?
Mawmenny means a dish eaten in later medieval England, made with spice and almost always with boneless meat from poultry (usually teased or mashed; most recipes name capon as an option), usually containing wine and either sugar or honey.
What part of speech is mawmenny?
Mawmenny is a noun.
How do you pronounce mawmenny?
Mawmenny is pronounced /ˈmɔːməni/.

Words near mawmenny in the dictionary

  1. mawles
  2. mawlid
  3. mawlids
  4. mawmaw
  5. mawmaws
  6. mawmenny
  7. mawmet
  8. mawmetries
  9. mawmetry
  10. mawmets
  11. mawmish

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