pone

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He soon learned to eat cold biscuit and corn-pone, and would hang around at meal-time, ready for the scraps.

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  1. noun Chiefly Southern U.S. See johnnycake. See Regional Notes at johnnycake, light bread.
  2. Regional Note
    A staple of the early American colonies from New England southward to Virginia was pone, a bread made by Native Americans from flat cakes of cornmeal dough baked in ashes. Pone is one of several Virginia Algonquian words (including hominy and tomahawk) borrowed into the English of the Atlantic seaboard. The word pone, usually in the compound cornpone, is now used mainly in the South, where it means cakes of cornbread baked on a griddle or in hot ashes—as the Native Americans originally cooked it.

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  • I will really like to have d new nokia 5800, because i've been using d nokia 5700 and d pone is ok, so can't wait to have 5800. —  ON: Digital+Marketing
  • All the fuss this past few weeks has been about the T-Mobile G1 Android pone, which was announced yesterday, but that doesn't mean it's the only phone in town. —  Mobile Mentalism
  • They want to post-pone the judicial system in regard to Sarah Palin's inability to separate personal life with professional powers as well. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
  • He must restrict himself to corn-pone opinions - at least on the surface. —  God is for Suckers!
  • He must restrict himself to corn-pone opinions -- at least on the surface. —  Planet Atheism
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  1. Virginia Algonquian poan, appoans, cornbread.

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  1. Formerly also paune; from American Indian oppone (see first quot.).
  2. from Latin pone, imperative of ponere, place: see ponent.
  3. from Latin pone, imperative of ponere, place: see ponent. Cf. pone.
 

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