Grits Definition

grĭts
noun
Ground hominy that is boiled with water or milk and served as a breakfast food or side dish.
American Heritage
Corn or other grain, soybeans, etc. ground more coarsely than for flour or meal; esp., in the South, hominy ground coarsely: grits are eaten as porridge, as a side dish, and in casseroles.
Webster's New World

Plural form of grit ('hulled oats')

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(Western Hemisphere) Coarsely ground hominy which is boiled and eaten, primarily in the Southern United States.

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Plural form of grit.

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Antonyms:
  • timidities
  • weaknesses
verb

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grit.

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pronoun
(Canada) The Liberal Party of Canada.
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Origin of Grits

  • Alteration of Middle English grutta coarse meal from Old English grytta pl. of grytt

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • See grit (“hulled oats”)

    From Wiktionary

  • See grit (Etymology 1)

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Grits Sentence Examples

  • Where a thick group of coarse hard grits intercalated in the sedimentary rocks crops out it rises into a chain of lofty rugged hills, of which Ben Ledi and Ben Vorlich are examples.

  • Muds, sands, grits and conglomerates are the predominant types.

  • The rest of 'em are all still down there, eating grits and keeping away from the law.

  • Old Red Sandstone, red grits, sandstones and marls and conglomerate occur in a narrow belt on the east side of Mainland from Sumburgh Head to Rova Head, north of Lerwick; they also form the island of Bressay.

  • A deeper reason was his inability to approve of the advanced views of the Radicals, or "Clear Grits," as they came to be called.

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