Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The heart, liver, and other edible viscera of an animal, especially hog viscera.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Originally, a piece of flesh to be roasted, especially part of the entrails of the wild boar; now, the entrails of a beast, especially of a hog, as the heart, liver, etc., used for human food.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The edible viscera, as the heart, liver, etc., of a beast, esp. of a hog.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the
internal organs of ananimal , especially theheart andliver of apig - noun a
meatloaf made of that (and seasoning)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun heart and liver and other edible viscera especially of hogs; usually chopped and formed into a loaf and braised
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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New legislation would see the resurgence of independently-run local shops, run by surly harridans selling overpriced tins of out-of-date haslet.
Archive 2008-02-01 Push Jelly 2008
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New legislation would see the resurgence of independently-run local shops, run by surly harridans selling overpriced tins of out-of-date haslet.
Ombudsman Opens Competition For Buying Shite Push Jelly 2008
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There was not a hog killed within three parishes of him whereof he had not some part of the haslet and puddings.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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There was not a hog killed within three parishes of him whereof he had not some part of the haslet and puddings.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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So the butcher made two packages, one of the lean but tasty forequarters for Lukasz, anotherof haslet for the peasant Jan, and the lord of Bukowo, as petty a one as lived in all of Poland, rode home with his meat and a sense that he had been honored.
Poland Michener, James 1983
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In this prudent way every portion of the Castle Gorka hogs was utilized: the good cuts for the banquet, the tougher ones in Pani Danusia's pierogi, the haslet in
Poland Michener, James 1983
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'And I want you to give the haslet, all of it, to this fellow they call Jan of the Beech Trees.
Poland Michener, James 1983
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= -- You can generally buy a pig's brain and haslet at the slaughter house for about ten cents; wash them thoroughly; slice the heart, liver, and lights, and fry them light brown in a cents 'worth of drippings.
Twenty-Five Cent Dinners for Families of Six Juliet Corson 1869
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Two things he was particularly fond of, and upon which he flourished whenever he could get them -- turnip greens and "hog's gullicks," the "Adam's apple" of a hog's haslet, or the "google," as it is commonly called.
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She also mentions haslet a pork meatloaf, and a pork, liver and kidney casserole called pigs fry "that some butchers sell as a mix".
The Guardian World News Emine Saner 2011
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