hush puppy

hush puppy

noun Chiefly Southern U.S.
a small, unsweetened cake or ball of cornmeal dough fried in deep fat.

Origin:
1915–20, Americanism; allegedly so called because such cakes were fed to dogs to keep them from begging for scraps while other dishes were cooked

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hush puppy

noun
deep-fried cornbread ball (southern) 
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Hush puppy is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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