Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The chest of an animal.
- n. The ribs and meat taken from the chest of an animal.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The breast of an animal, or that part of the breast that lies next to the ribs; in a horse, the part extending from the neck at the shoulder down to the fore legs.
Wiktionary
- n. The chest of an animal
- n. A cut of meat taken from this area, especially from the section under the first five ribs
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. That part of the breast of an animal which extends from the fore legs back beneath the ribs; also applied to the fore part of a horse, from the shoulders to the bottom of the chest.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a cut of meat from the breast or lower chest especially of beef
Etymologies
- Middle English brusket, from Old Danish bryske ‘cartilage, gristle’ (modern brusk), from Proto-Germanic *breuskiz (compare German Brausche ‘knot on the head’), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreus- ‘to break’. More at bruise. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English brusket, perhaps of Scandinavian origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I am told that or flank steak and lean brisket from the flat section are also good, but I have not used them.”
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“Those hot links are absolutely outstanding and the brisket is nice and smoky.”
“Corned beef brisket is not often found in Mexico, but when it is, it is called pecho curado.”
Choice Cut Or Mystery Meat? A Guide To Mexican Butcher Shops: Part I - Beef
“Here in central Texas, good brisket is easy to find.”
“Seriously though, brisket is definitely a Texan tradition.”
“I'm a Fort Worth gal born and raised and brisket is a way of life!”
“Ribs etc. are not really worth it, and the brisket is too lean to be eaten any other way that with melted cheese and fried onions on top.”
“And I love Hill Country, I've been a couple of times and its moist brisket is indeed excellent!”
The imperfect (but still scrumptious) scoop | Homesick Texan
“The brisket is beautifully cooked but, served as it is without broth, its lovely flavor gets lost in the intensity of the smoke and sweet that pervades all the food here.”
“(topped with Rhesus Pieces) and the BBQ beef brisket from the Gene Autry Smokehouse.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘brisket’.
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Meat Parts: the Cuts, the Innards, an...
T-bone - Sounds good!
Shoulder - Alright.
Liver - Fine.
Sweetbread - Okay.
Gizzard - Pushing it.
Brains - What?!wing, wedge bone sirloin, veal, umbles, tri-tip, tripe, triangle steak, tournedo, top sirloin, top loin, tongue, thigh and 147 more...
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Bracket and such
bracket, bucket, cricket, docket, jacket, locket, packet, picket, racket, rocket, socket, sprocket and 17 more...
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Meat
sausage, pepperoni, pork chop, ham, tongue, fricandeau, veal, tenderloin, mutton, boeuf, terefah, gammon and 33 more...
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phrases from my annoying mail
ability to relate, attend to persona..., deterioration of ..., constriction of i..., respond appropria..., requiring regular..., minimal intellect..., higher levels of ..., repetitive tasks, independent judgment, manage others, confronted with u... and 36 more...
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Fun Food Names
spaghettini, mutton, bratwurst, zabaglione, sweet potato pie, succotash, slumgullion, bouillabaisse, hush puppy, gumbo, jambalaya, mahimahi and 126 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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Foodie
As much fun to say as they are to eat.
blueberry, cider, almond, apricot, asparagus, banana, fudge, foldover, flapjacks, filbert, fig, biscuit and 217 more...
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And another
retrocausality, brusque, gainsay, cheerio, jaundiced, chamois, caw, craw, fudge, bubbler, shebang, bolo and 244 more...
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savage215's Words
pipe, yankee, knickerbocker, tennis, plasma, magma, volcano, car, truck, television, tv, word and 445 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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B is for Blue Canary
My B Words
bugbear, bette davis eyes, backstroke, barney, babushka, babycakes, backscratcher, bad news bears, balderdash, ballyhoo, baloney, bamboozle and 150 more...
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GRE Words
abacus, abate, abdicate, abdomen, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abide, abjure, abraded, abrasion, abrogate and 198 more...
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brettl's Words
ginormous, craptastic, vernacular, beau, liminal, asymptote, surge, puerile, lascivious, puerile, super-public, flummoxed and 48 more...
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it's what's for dinner
cuts of beef
chuck, rib, brisket, shank, plate, flank, loin, sirloin, tenderloin, roand, chateaubriand, delmonico and 5 more...
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dewb's Words
disambiguate, apropos, sanctimonious, ostensibly, disingenuous, rad, macguffin, a priori, rigger, brisket
Tweets
Looking for tweets for brisket.
skipvia That's what caught my attention... Nov 2, 2007
sionnach The hovering definition "a cut of meat" acquires some disturbing associations .. Nov 2, 2007
skipvia I'll never eat corned beef again. Nov 2, 2007
sionnach tools used by a rabbi at a circumcision ceremony Nov 2, 2007