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pone

pone

2 9.5
A simple Southern cornbread people often make without milk or eggs and cook in a skillet
  • noun
  • /poʊn/
  • US
translation icon : pone
  • In the empty house, I lit a candle, ate another corn pone and a piece of fried chicken my mother had left for me, and went to bed.
  • corn pone
  • pone of bread

Examples

  • LeRoi was just finishing a plate of fried catfish and corn pone when one of his younger cousins came up to him and told him that his great-uncle wanted to see him back at the barn.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • Through most of the week, we ate cornmeal mush for breakfast and corn pones for bread.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Fair enough, I have some beans and corn pone,

    Cold Mountain (2003)

  • Cook has gravy for your corn pone tonight.

    Harriet (2019)

  • I reckon you'll want some salt on your pone.

    Sergeant York (1941)

  • For supper, we had stew, beans, coffee, and corn pone.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • For supper, we had stew, beans, coffee, and corn pone.

  • Breakfast could include freshly baked bread, corn pone, pancakes, cold ham, chicken, and several types of hash.

  • Fair enough, I have some beans and corn pone.

Synonyms

cornbread
vspone
  • US
42 2.4

A bread made from cornmeal usually served warm with butter

is the simpler often milk and egg free variation baked or fried
cornpone
vspone
  • US
1 9.1

A simple cornbread made without milk or eggs and cooked in a pan

has identical meaning but appears as a shorter traditional form in writing

Surface Forms

pone singular
pones plural

Etymology

Pone comes from a Native American word apan meaning 'bread' or 'baked'. So a pone is a small corn 'bread' or cake that was baked or fried, which is why people in the southern United States call this kind of cornbread a 'pone'.