hominy grits

1. 1.

   coarsely ground hulled corn boiled as a breakfast dish in the southern United States

   Synonymsgrits

   Broaderhot cereal

Questions about hominy grits

What does hominy grits mean?

hominy grits means "coarsely ground hulled corn boiled as a breakfast dish in the southern United States".

What is another word for hominy grits?

Close synonyms include grits. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hominy grits a common word?

hominy grits is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.