Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural Ground hominy that is boiled with water or milk and served as a breakfast food or side dish.
- noun plural Coarsely ground grain, especially corn.
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- noun Plural form of
grit . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
grit . - noun Plural form of
grit . ('hulled oats') - noun Western Hemisphere Coarsely ground
hominy which is boiled and eaten, primarily in the Southern United States.
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- noun coarsely ground hulled corn boiled as a breakfast dish in the southern United States
Etymologies
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Examples
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The thing about grits is they can be a bit bland by themselves.
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Comparing this to whether you buy corn flakes or grits is really, really, really a completely irrelevent comparison.
Preferring Ignorance, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Without you, I could not continue to "pen" these bite-sized pieces of Provence, slices of French life, or grits from the Gaul.
French Word-A-Day: 2008
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Without you, I could not continue to "pen" these bite-sized pieces of Provence, slices of French life, or grits from the Gaul.
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Without you, I could not continue to "pen" these bite-sized pieces of Provence, slices of French life, or grits from the Gaul.
French Word-A-Day: 2008
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"The thing about grits is that you've got to cook 'em really slow."
True grits | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2006
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Luisa -- I would bet their recipe for grits is spot on delicious.
True grits | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2006
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Adam -- I'm sorry about your blood sugar -- but even a little bit of grits is better than none.
True grits | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2006
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I am also a true GRITS girl and it hurt my southern heart (just a teeny bit) to interchange the word grits with polenta (yes I know they are technically the same thing but…).
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Looks like a good recipe, but grits is best made normal-like, a wet pile with a lake of melted butter in the middle, sitting next to two runny fried eggs.
brace for Wilma 2 2005
skipvia commented on the word grits
A Southern food staple. Also used to refer to someone from the rural South, as in "He's such a grit he prob'ly eats pie for breakfast."
October 28, 2007