Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun 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.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
head cheese .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Ltd., has recalled the headcheese, which was distributed nationally.
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Ltd., has recalled the headcheese, which was distributed nationally.
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-0 Reminds me of the Little House in the Big Woods when they boil up the pigs head to make "headcheese".
with the economy being as it is... Katy 2009
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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
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We don't know why headcheese is so dreadful when its individual components are so luscious.
Will Durst: I Don't Know Nothing. Will Durst 2011
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We don't know why headcheese is so dreadful when its individual components are so luscious.
Will Durst: I Don't Know Nothing. Will Durst 2011
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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.
Andrew Knowlton: Should Restaurants Stop Serving Entrees? 2010
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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.
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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.
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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.
reesetee commented on the word headcheese
See head cheese for some delightful commentary.
November 13, 2007