Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A ground, usually white meal of dried and hulled corn kernels that is boiled and served as a breakfast food or side dish.
- n. Coarsely ground grain, especially corn.
Wiktionary
- n. Plural form of grit. ('hulled oats')
- n. Western Hemisphere Coarsely ground hominy which is boiled and eaten, primarily in the Southern United States.
- n. Plural form of grit.
- v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grit.
WordNet 3.0
- n. coarsely ground hulled corn boiled as a breakfast dish in the southern United States
Etymologies
- See grit (Etymology 1) (Wiktionary)
- Alteration of Middle English grutta, coarse meal, from Old English grytta, pl. of grytt. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Comparing this to whether you buy corn flakes or grits is really, really, really a completely irrelevent comparison.”
Preferring Ignorance, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“The thing about grits is they can be a bit bland by themselves.”
“Without you, I could not continue to "pen" these bite-sized pieces of Provence, slices of French life, or grits from the Gaul.”
“Luisa -- I would bet their recipe for grits is spot on delicious.”
“Adam -- I'm sorry about your blood sugar -- but even a little bit of grits is better than none.”
“The thing about grits is that you've got to cook 'em really slow.”
“I am also a true GRITS girl and it hurt my southern heart (just a teeny bit) to interchange the word grits with polenta (yes I know they are technically the same thing but…).”
“Looks like a good recipe, but grits is best made normal-like, a wet pile with a lake of melted butter in the middle, sitting next to two runny fried eggs.”
“The name grits is thought to come from grytte, the Old English word for bran.”
“My family happens to live in South Carolina, where they eat food with such appetizing names such as "grits" - not to be confused with "dirt.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘grits’.
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Open List: The World of Corn
Corn-related words and phrases. This versatile crop is so important to cultures and economies - from most basic indigenous foodstuff and animal feed to source of biopolymer and biofuel.
seed corn, field corn, flint corn, sweet corn, biofuel, biopolymer, corn starch, modified corn starch, cornstarch, cornflour, polylactic acid, citric acid and 390 more...
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EN - pronunciation fun
All words of the poem
The Chaos
by Gerard Nolst Trenité
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse <...abyss, ache, actual, advice, aerie, age, ague, aisles, alas, alien, alive, allowed and 406 more...
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Pease Porridge Hot
List of terms for porridge dishes made from seeds, grains, legumes, etc. from around the world.
See mollusque's list More gruel?.
mush, oatmeal, frumenty, pinhead oatmeal, porridge, grits, atole, gruel, shuco, polenta, gofio, kachamak and 69 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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Pluralia Tantum
Nouns that are common in plural form but are non-existent or rarely used in singular form.
scissors, thanks, clothes, remains, tights, trousers, pants, news, billiards, means, mathematics, physics and 221 more...
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Words I have to learn
exasperate, felony, weld, fraud, worksheet, ransom, rehearse, preliminary, offshore, parole, infamous, sieve and 436 more...
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Two years
Okay, I admit it. I made a list of words my daughter knew when she was two years old.
bat, baba, a, abalone, about, acorn, adrienne, after, again, airplane, alison, all and 694 more...
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Tuesday words
just the next words that come along
nasality, transignification, lapsarian, disciple, slanguage, atwitter, avast, ahoy, asleep, awake, hymnody, glissade and 573 more...
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deegee's Words
pay-per-view, vitriol, delectable, snarky, unflinching, forsake, pervasive, inconsequential, unnerving, allure, endearing, unalloyed and 414 more...
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Food Mmmmm's
Food that makes me go "Mmmmm"
pappardelle, fettuccine, tortellini, agnolotti, lasagna, egg noodles, ragu, alfredo, butter, cream, brie, swiss cheese and 60 more...
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My Pantry
Inspired by Groceries, the list.
soup, 5lb bag of sugar, syrup, horseradish, ketchup, lemonade mix, iced tea mix, chocolate milk mix, bag-o-mixed nuts ..., 3 jars of mustards, plum sauce, water chestnuts and 57 more...
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More gruel?
gruel, porridge, oatmeal, grits, hominy, samp, mush, brose, burgoo, maypo, frumenty, stirabout and 29 more...
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Areas of Responsibility Vis-à-vis Our...
A list of the stuff that periodically comes up in conversation as "That's going to be your job, teaching that to the kids."
how to properly c..., sciencey things, pointing out rand..., history things, computer things, drinking straw tr..., math stuff, efficiency of mov..., miyazaki films, ramifications of ..., flogging with wet..., marginalization o... and 22 more...
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A Southern Season
Words and phrases commonly heard in the southern US
skrink, corn pone, might could, hot'un, passable fair, shouldna, unsweet, iced tea, sweet tea, lawdy, lawsy, y'all and 51 more...
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Words I Dislike
proactive, semblance, tasty, belly, burger, adore, sebum, grits, morsel, fridge
Tweets
Looking for tweets for grits.
skipvia A Southern food staple. Also used to refer to someone from the rural South, as in "He's such a grit he prob'ly eats pie for breakfast." Oct 27, 2007