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CORNBREAD

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bread made primarily of cornmeal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("cornbread" is a kind of...):

quick bread (breads made with a leavening agent that permits immediate baking)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cornbread"):

corn cake (baked in a pan or on a griddle (southern and midland))

skillet corn bread (cornbread usually containing ham or bacon bits and cooked in a skillet)

ash cake; ashcake; corn tash (corn bread wrapped in cabbage leaves and baked in hot ashes (southern))

cornpone; pone (cornbread often made without milk or eggs and baked or fried (southern))

corn dab; corn dodger; dodger (small oval cake of corn bread baked or fried (chiefly southern))

hush puppy; hushpuppy (deep-fried cornbread ball (southern))

johnny cake; johnnycake; journey cake (cornbread usually cooked pancake-style on a griddle (chiefly New England))

batter bread; spoon bread (soft bread made of cornmeal and sometimes rice or hominy; must be served with a spoon (chiefly southern))

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