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sousemeat

sousemeat noun: a foodstuff made by boiling souse (pickled feet, ears, etc of a pig) into a glutinous mass, seasoning it heavily, and shaping it into loaves.

Noun

sousemeat (countable and uncountable, plural sousemeats)

  1. A foodstuff made by boiling souse (pickled feet, ears, etc of a pig) into a glutinous mass, seasoning it heavily, and shaping it into loaves.
    • Meats eaten included many pork entrees such as salt pork, chitterlings and sousemeat.1983 -, Vivian Brake, Development of a Methodology for Menu Planning Through the Analysis of Food Preferences, Consumption and Waste, page 16
    • One of his favorites was what we called sousemeat, a conglomeration of feet, ears, faces, and other parts that were cleaned thoroughly, boiled into a homogeneous glutinous consistency, seasoned heavily, and then formed into a large loaf.2001, Jimmy Carter, Christmas in Plains: Memories, page 54

Forms of sousemeat

pluralsousemeats

Origin of sousemeat

From souse + meat.

Questions about sousemeat

What does sousemeat mean?
Sousemeat means a foodstuff made by boiling souse (pickled feet, ears, etc of a pig) into a glutinous mass, seasoning it heavily, and shaping it into loaves.
What part of speech is sousemeat?
Sousemeat is a noun.
What is the plural of sousemeat?
The plural of sousemeat is sousemeats.

Words near sousemeat in the dictionary

  1. sousaphonist
  2. sousaphonists
  3. sousas
  4. souse
  5. soused
  6. sousemeat
  7. sousemeats
  8. souser
  9. sousers
  10. souses
  11. sousing

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