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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Chiefly Southern U.S. See johnnycake. See Regional Notes at johnnycake, light bread.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Cornbread; in the southwestern United States, any bread made of Indian corn, especially coarse kinds used by the negroes and poorer whites, commonly called corn-pone; also, finer bread, made with milk and eggs, in flat cakes about an inch thick, very light and delicate. See johnny-cake, hoe-cake.
  2. n. A loaf or cake of such bread.
  3. n. In old English law: A writ whereby an action depending in an inferior court might be removed into the Court of Common Pleas.
  4. n. A writ whereby the sheriff was commanded to take security of a person for his appearance upon an assigned day.
  5. n. In the game of vingt-et-un, the player to the left of the dealer; the eldest hand.
  6. n. In English and American card games, as bridge, the player who sits at the right of the dealer. See bridge.

Wiktionary

  1. n. card games The last player to bet or play in turn.
  2. n. law, historical A writ in law used by the superior courts to remove cases from inferior courts.
  3. n. southern US A baked or fried cornbread (bread made of cornmeal), often made without milk or eggs.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Southern U. S. A kind of johnnycake.
  2. n. An original writ, now superseded by the writ of certiorari, for removing a case from an inferior court into the Court of Exchequer.
  3. n. An obsolete writ to enforce appearance in court by attaching goods or requiring securities.
  4. n. (Card Playing) The player who cuts the cards, being usually the player on the dealer's right.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. cornbread often made without milk or eggs and baked or fried (southern)

Etymologies

  1. Unknown (Wiktionary)
  2. Virginia Algonquian poan, appoans, cornbread. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • bilby Ha, another bit of classic Weirdnet. Dec 16, 2012

  • mollusque "All right, New Shoes! I'm fixing to smack you hard right across those pones of yours, where you need it most," she cried. "And for the rest of your punishment, you're to come straight home from school today and tell me something you've learned."
    --Eudora Welty, 1970, Losing Battles Dec 24, 2010

  • hernesheir In the game of cribbage, the dealer's opponent. Jun 28, 2010

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