Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gritten

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: grit-ten
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Made of or consisting of grits.

Example Sentences

"The Walkers make their bread from cornmeal, which they grate on a piece of tin punched full of holes and fastened to a board. This is known as "gritten" bread."
"He would go out into one of his cornfields and select a few ears of corn, the kernels of which could be barely dented with the thumb nail. These ears were converted into "gritten cornbread.""

Etymology

From Middle English *grytten, grutten (“made of bran, coarse”), equivalent to grit + -en (“made of”).

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: *grytten

Inflected Forms

more gritten (comparative) most gritten (superlative)

Questions

What does gritten mean?: Made of or consisting of grits.
Where does gritten come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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