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“We had pictured a seafood buffet brought up from N’awlins, where we could dine on crab legs, shrimp cocktail, and hush puppies to our hearts’ delight, after which would follow a sumptuous presentation of bananas Foster.”
“Miss Freeman waddled her way across the street and over to our place with a big platter of fried catfish and hush puppies and a dish of potatoes and a salad.”
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metaphoric references to dogs
As an ongoing part of my project, Dogs in Metaphor and Idiom, Illustrated, (www.metaphordogs.org) I am continually adding terms. If you know a term that fi...
dog, alpha male, at bay, bark, bird dog, bitch, bitchin, bloodhound, bulldog, canaille, canines, cerberus and 131 more...
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Shoes
character shoes, duck boots, huaraches, espadrilles, mary janes, sneakers, tennis, stilettos, fuck me pumps, slippers, sandals, flip flops and 93 more...
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US Civil War
Words I've come across from the Civil War that sometimes are mentioned in its and other contexts.
grillage, swamp angel, rifled cannon, parrott, gun platform, quaker gun, grapeshot, minie ball, hush puppies, west point foundry, powder monkey, tara
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that's just beastly!
cat-o-nine-tails, snake in the grass, puppy love, white elephant, crocodile tears, monkey business, keep the wolf fro..., culture vulture, black sheep of th..., scapegoat, ugly duckling, swan song and 260 more...
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Interesting Foods
smelt, sprat, caviar, sushi, papadum, garlic naan, injera, doro wat, miso, pho, edamame, tataki and 170 more...
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Only on Wordie/Wordnik
Okay, mostly on Wordie. But it's more fun here anyway.
brannock device, polari, stupidhead, in toto, nounal, flustrated, stuffocate, firkin, full-assed, placeholder name, pro-text, cheesequake and 408 more...
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Fun menu items
spotted dick, bubble and squeak, toad in the hole, pets de nonnes, pigs in a blanket, prairie oysters, ropa vieja, manchamanteles, arme ritter, schwalbennester, strammer max, cabeza de gato and 119 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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chained_bear But there weren't generally a lot of dogs in Confederate encampments. Oct 28, 2009
jojimyers The "corn dogs" are different from "hush puppies" and the story I heard was that of a Confederate encampment, so as not to alert the Union troops to its location, tossed "cornballs" to the dogs to keep them quiet. Oct 28, 2009
skipvia Right on, c_b. You have to get up at 4:00am to have barbecue ready by supper.
I'm familiar with a similar story about the etymology of the term, but in the stories I was told it was hunters sitting around campfires that fried up the cornmeal and fed it to the hounds to keep them quiet. Jul 11, 2009
chained_bear The "for some reason" part, I heard is because it takes all day to make proper southern barbecue (cue skipvia!), and the hounds smell it and bay all day. Tossing them fried balls of cornmeal (which are cheap as anything) kept them from baying.
Just tossing in the folklore I heard about it.... Jul 11, 2009
amacleod03 Though the term appears to be relatively recent, there is no particular agreement about its origin or significance. The common assumption is that it arose sometime in the late 19th century and that for one reason or another fried cornmeal was tossed to dogs to keep them quiet. Maybe this was in the aftermath of the Civil War, when food was scarce.reference 1 Or perhaps it was slave women who, being thrifty, saved the cornmeal left over after dredging catfish for frying, and fried it up too. Or it might have been hunters who wanted to quiet their hounds.
The Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins suggests that the puppies were not canines at all, but salamanders known as “water dogs�? or “water puppies.�? Eating such creatures, even when coated in corn batter and fried, was so shameful that nobody wanted their neighbors to know they were doing so. Hence, you were supposed to be quiet about these pups. DARE suggests that hush puppies are also called dog bread.
As for the shoes, Tom Burns Haber, in his exhaustive compilation of canine terms in American Speech, cites several sources for shoes described as “dogs...barkers, puppies, pups...�? He even goes so far as to say that the sportswriter Tad Dorgan (yes, the same one who is erroneously attributed with coining the term “hot dog�? for a sausage sandwich) is credited with calling shoes “dogs.�? Jul 11, 2009
reesetee Chained_bear, in the name of all that is holy, please don't add....
Too late. Oct 18, 2007
chained_bear Oh my gosh, I totally forgot--just read an article in Newsweek about cornhole! I meant to go add it... *goes to add it* Oct 17, 2007
trivet Yum! Even when my family calls them cornholes, making them sound much less appetizing... Oct 17, 2007
uselessness A friend for Lamb Chop? Oh, wait... Oct 17, 2007
sionnach Food! Footwear! What more could you ask for? Oct 17, 2007