sowbelly
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- noun
- /ˈsaʊˌbɛli/
- Archaic
:
tocino salado
- On the menu tonight, we have sowbelly and grits, a staple dish from traditional American cooking.
Examples
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We get this unskinned, dressed out we'll have enough sowbelly for a while.
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- Hardtack and sowbelly, sir.
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- Hardtack and sowbelly.
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- Hardtack and sowbelly.
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For our wilderness trip, we packed essentials like sowbelly and hardtack to last for weeks.
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In the old cabin, we enjoyed meals of sowbelly and beans cooked over the fire.
Synonyms
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1.0
The meat from a pig that people eat
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3.4
A fatty cut of pork from the pig's belly that people cook, for example to make bacon
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4.1
Pieces of fatty pork kept in salt that cooks use to add flavor
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sowbelly comes from two plain words, sow ('female pig') and belly ('stomach'), so it literally names the pork cut from a pig's belly. A helpful image is early settlers keeping salted sowbelly as a long-lasting food, which is why today it means salt pork from the pig's belly used as a staple.