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gritten

adj

Etymology

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

  1. inherited from *grytten✻

Definitions

  1. Made of or consisting of grits.

    • 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."

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA