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shortenings

shortenings is the plural of shortening.

Meaning of shortening

Noun

shortening (countable and uncountable, plural shortenings)

  1. (US) Fat that is solid at room temperature, especially hydrogenated vegetable oil (known as vegetable shortening), used to make shortcrust pastry and in deep fat frying.
    • Put on the skillet, slip on the lid / Mammy's going to make us some shortening bread / And that ain't all our mammy's going to do / She's going to cook us some coffee, too1979, The Beach Boys, “Shortnin' Bread”, in Adult Child

Phrases with shortenings

Questions about shortenings

What is shortenings the plural of?
Shortenings is the plural of shortening.

Words near shortenings in the dictionary

  1. shortening
  2. shortening down
  3. shortening time
  4. shortening times
  5. shortening up
  6. shortenings
  7. shortens
  8. shortens down
  9. shortens up
  10. shorter
  11. shorter haul

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shortenings (page history and authors); shortening (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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