crackling
the making of slight cracking sounds rapidly repeated.
the crisp browned skin or rind of roast pork.
Usually cracklings. Southern U.S. the crisp residue left when fat, especially hog or chicken fat, is rendered.
Origin of crackling
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How to use crackling in a sentence
Hitchcock's going on about English pork butchers and how best to prepare pork cracklings.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days | David Freeman | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNumerous herbs, spices, &c. are added to it; and upon the whole, it is a more sightly "course" at table than fat cracklings.
The first few days in March were very warm, and cracklings of ice could be heard distinctly through the woods.
Five Little Starrs in the Canadian Forest | Lillian Elizabeth RoyTree toads were chirping, there were suspicious cracklings in the grass as of bugs stirring.
The "Genius" | Theodore DreiserIts tone was authoritative, and there were little cracklings of static in it from its passage across the Atlantic.
The Invaders | William Fitzgerald Jenkins
The rumblings and cracklings overhead increased in intensity until the old house swayed and creaked with the concussions.
Wanderer of Infinity | Harl Vincent
British Dictionary definitions for crackling
/ (ˈkræklɪŋ) /
the crisp browned skin of roast pork
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