Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A jellied loaf or sausage made from chopped and boiled parts of the feet, head, and sometimes the tongue and heart of an animal, usually a hog.
Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of head cheese.
Examples
“Ltd., has recalled the headcheese, which was distributed nationally.”
“-0 Reminds me of the Little House in the Big Woods when they boil up the pigs head to make "headcheese".”
“The head of pork does not contain a great deal of meat, but, as the quality of this meat is very good, it is valuable for a number of special dishes, such as headcheese and scrapple.”
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 3: Soup; Meat; Poultry and Game; Fish and Shell Fish
“We don't know why headcheese is so dreadful when its individual components are so luscious.”
“If the chef wants to cook sweetbreads, headcheese, or beef cheek, or pair berries with chicken livers, better to present the dish in a modest portion.”
The Huffington Post: Andrew Knowlton: Should Restaurants Stop Serving Entrees?
“And I'd send him downstairs to counsel my wife's nutty aunt, who chases social workers away by screaming at them because they bought the wrong potatoes, the wrong headcheese, or the cherries she believed were too sour.”
“This included pig's foot Milanese, warm tripe alla parmigiana, testa (a different type of headcheese) with pickled pears, stuffed lamb's brain pasta, and yes, tongue.”
“Fergus Henderson, the godfather of "nose-to-tail eating," first started serving "variety meats" like brawn (headcheese) and pig's ear salad when he opened his London restaurant, St. John, in 1994.”
“The head, ears, and feet became headcheese (patsa).”
“As I bit in, I felt the warm headcheese, pork and pate coat my teeth.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘headcheese’.
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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HU Realia
Cultural realia from Hungary.
I have only included realia that already have an English spelling variant and DID NOT include Hungarian words that would be used in English texts unchang...charcoal kiln, embroidered felt ..., farmstead, golden stick, graft, herdsman’s whip, inn, lever well, limekiln, local border traffic, maypole, merino and 356 more...
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cheese
everything cheese,expressions like
stiff cheddar,turophile's heaven
a work in progresscheddar, cheddared, cheddaring, cheedam, cheese straw, cheesed off, cheesed, cheesie, cheeseparing, cheese tree, cheesewood, cheesier and 352 more...
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How gross can you get without saying ...
Word combinations that make you wince.
knob cheddar, yeasty mulch, acrid pustule, rotting dingleberry, toe gum, steaming armpit, butt cracklings, aspic cream, headcheese, grey gunge, sundry horkings, hissing slurry and 69 more...
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Joycean Vocab
You ain't read no English til you read Joyce.
rasher, cygnet, usquebaugh, ephebe, entelechy, kish, caul, vicereine, atelier, daguerreotype, communard, connubial and 99 more...
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That's Just Offal
Edible organ meats and leftover parts.
blood sausage, blood pudding, black pudding, scrapple, brawn, headcheese, drob, giblets, chitlins, chitlings, chitterlings, haggis and 55 more...
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flinchers
words that make me uncomfortable
moist, loin, secret to a tiny ..., bacon cheddar ranch, discharge, Yoplait, weevil, splurge, palpate, fissure, exude, humectant and 77 more...
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reesetee See head cheese for some delightful commentary. Nov 13, 2007