grittenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

gritten (comparative more gritten, superlative most gritten)

1. (まれに) Made of or consisting of grits.
   • 1919, Illustrated World, volume 32, page 732:

     The Walkers make their bread from cornmeal, which they grate on a piece of tin punched full of holes and fastened to a board. This is known as "gritten" bread.

   • 1943, Bess Virginia Hicks Ehrmann, Back Trails of Indiana, page 160:

     He would go out into one of his cornfields and select a few ears of corn, the kernels of which could be barely dented with the thumb nail. These ears were converted into "gritten cornbread."

アナグラム

• gittern, retting