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  • Pickled pigs' feet.

    February 8, 2010

  • eeeeew... cool list, though!

    February 8, 2010

  • (pl. noun) - Pigs' trotters, or pigs' feet. Many examples can be given of this strange perversion of names - Albany beef, Marblehead turkey, etc. Similarly in England, a herring is called a Billingsgate pheasant, a two-eyed steak, etc.

    --Sylva Clapin's New Dictionary of Americanisms, 1902

    January 16, 2018

  • Here's an archived copy of Clapin's Americanisms, 1902:

    https://archive.org/stream/cu31924104766328/cu31924104766328_djvu.txt

    January 16, 2018