Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Chiefly Southern U.S. See johnnycake. See Regional Notes at johnnycake, light bread.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
- n. A loaf or cake of such bread.
- n. In old English law: A writ whereby an action depending in an inferior court might be removed into the Court of Common Pleas.
- n. A writ whereby the sheriff was commanded to take security of a person for his appearance upon an assigned day.
- n. In the game of vingt-et-un, the player to the left of the dealer; the eldest hand.
- n. In English and American card games, as bridge, the player who sits at the right of the dealer. See bridge.
Wiktionary
- n. card games The last player to bet or play in turn.
- n. law, historical A writ in law used by the superior courts to remove cases from inferior courts.
- n. southern US A baked or fried cornbread (bread made of cornmeal), often made without milk or eggs.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Southern U. S. A kind of johnnycake.
- n. An original writ, now superseded by the writ of certiorari, for removing a case from an inferior court into the Court of Exchequer.
- n. An obsolete writ to enforce appearance in court by attaching goods or requiring securities.
- n. (Card Playing) The player who cuts the cards, being usually the player on the dealer's right.
WordNet 3.0
- n. cornbread often made without milk or eggs and baked or fried (southern)
Etymologies
- Unknown (Wiktionary)
- Virginia Algonquian poan, appoans, cornbread. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“At the same time he would throw up his cards, or hand them to the player on the dealer's right, who is termed the pone, and whose duty it is to collect the cards as they are played and keep them in readiness for the dealer when he requires a further supply.”
“The bread in gentlemen's houses is generally made of wheat, but some choose the pone, which is the bread made of Indian meal.”
“pone" -- two varieties of cornbread -- were regularly eaten at breakfast and dinner.”
The Old Northwest : A chronicle of the Ohio Valley and beyond
“If you don't have a child between 7 and 13 years old, you're probably furrowing your brow right now, wondering what the word "pone" could possibly mean.”
“According to urban lore, "pone" was coined by young fans of the boy band the Jonas Brothers who recently rocked Abu Dabhi in what was surely one of the stranger concerts in human history, or even -- so the Brothers are said to claim -- directly by them.”
“I think I sold like a thousand boxes or more... but I must admit I'm not into video games anymore... so I had no idea what "pone" meant.”
“She had at this time only meal enough in her house to make one "pone" of bread.”
“He will cheerfully eat fat bacon and "pone" corn-bread all the week [C] in order to indulge in unlimited soda-water, melon and fish at the end.”
“When the stock of bread is low this quickly-prepared corn bread or "pone" is a very good substitute for bread, and was frequently baked by Mary at the farm.”
Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans"
“Save that it was destitute of salt, it was quite a toothsome bit of nutriment for a hungry man, and I recommend my readers to try making a "pone" of this kind once, just to see what it was like.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pone’.
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pustule, purulence, pushful, purser, purpureal, putative, purpure, purpresture, purloin, purline, purlieu, purlicue and 1766 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Cribbage
cribbage, cribbage board, spillikin, his heels, peg, cards, nobs, crib, dealer, pegging, pip, last card and 23 more...
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From the Algonquin et al.
Words derived from the innumerable languages of native Americans and the First Nations of Canada. I want to shine some light on this underexposed etymological background to so many common (and som...
raccoon, persimmon, mummichog, caucus, bayou, caribou, geoduck, chipmunk, skunk, opossum, moose, squash and 84 more...
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Unusual words for Words With Friends
A list of words that WWF recognizes as valid - most are unusual words; some are simply high-scoring.
botel, slipe, jeu, chub, chubs, cote, mure, tittle, dev, loo, hoke, helo and 357 more...
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alopecia
i suppose, all of the words & phrases yoni wolf uses in alopecia, that i love.
ladies man, landmine, cavalier, consumer grade video, single's bingo, all-time gringo, calculated birth, manila envelope, mortaring, houdini, punchline, circus mirrors and 160 more...
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Wonderful bread
baguette, bialy, pumpernickel, boule, brioche, challah, chapati, cornbread, dosa, mantou, flatbread, focaccia and 102 more...
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tomax's Words
legerdemain, yayo, extravasation, wont, faze, coxswain, concomitant, enclave, unguent, rhabdomyolysis, effluent, puerile and 432 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1381 more...
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itzamyeh's Words
quell, shuck, countervailing, mozambique, wiener, pone, calque, pahoehoe, wholly, mantissa, bouffant, phalanx and 14 more...
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nickname components
see, you make combinations: poowaffle j. ostrich, weeniebear boychik, stinktopus q. hugpants, wee poubelle of love, and so forth.
poo, poop, pants, waffle, chik, chiclet, hug, snug, pone, wee, boy, girl and 18 more...
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Eudora Welty
scallopy, time's nick, joggling board, kindling, Scotch legs, bless out, unselfishness, gorgette, thumbnail, norate, fluzions, mirate and 9 more...
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nmeeber's Words
galoshes, specificity, felicitous, swum, gargoyle, pone, flugens, diegesis, twee, conundrum, epizootics
Tweets
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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