English

Noun

hominy ‎(usually uncountable, plural hominies)

1. 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.

Synonyms

• (hulled, lye-soaked, cooked kernels): nixtamal

Translations

References

1. ↑ "hominy", the Oxford Dictionary of English edited by Angus Stevenson (Oxford University Press, 2010) / Oxford Reference Online, via the State Library of Tasmania, accessed 5 June 2012:
2. ↑ "hominy", An A-Z of Food and Drink edited by John Ayto (Oxford university Press, 2002) / Oxford Reference Online, via the State Library of Tasmania, accessed 5 June 2012:
3. ↑ “hominy” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).
4. ↑ listed in William Strachey's vocabulary of Powhatan