Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hominy

/ˈhɒmɪni/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.99 in modern English

Syllables: hominy
IPA: /ˈhɒmɪni/

14

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

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.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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!’"

Etymology

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.

Word Breakdown

Root: -

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

hominies (plural)

Phrases

hominy snow

Synonyms

nixtamal

Homonyms

harmony (non-rhotic, father-bother merger, weak vowel merger)

Rhymes With

domini dominey

Questions

How do you pronounce hominy?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈhɒmɪni/.
What does hominy mean?: 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.
Where does hominy come from?: 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.

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