scrunchion
scrunchion noun: a small piece of pork rind or fatback fried until rendered and crispy.
Noun
scrunchion (plural scrunchions)
- A small piece of pork rind or fatback fried until rendered and crispy.
- But they remember fishing into the winter. “Christ,” says Bernard, “out there handlining in the snow. You’d come in numb. We didn’t have these modern clothes. Just wool. Or if they had them, we didn’t know.” “No,” said Leonard, “they weren’t there.” “Christ, it was cold.” “We didn’t have any...1997, Mark Kurlansky, “Prologue: Sentry on the Headlands (So Close to Ireland)”, in Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, Walker, →ISBN
Forms of scrunchion
| plural | scrunchions |
|---|---|
| alternative form | scruncheon |
| alternative form | scrunchin |
Questions about scrunchion
- What does scrunchion mean?
- Scrunchion means a small piece of pork rind or fatback fried until rendered and crispy.
- What part of speech is scrunchion?
- Scrunchion is a noun.
- What is the plural of scrunchion?
- The plural of scrunchion is scrunchions.
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