livering
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Etymology
Noun
livering (plural liverings)
- (obsolete) A kind of pudding or sausage made of liver or pork.
- 1564, Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux (translating François Rabelais, The Fifth Book, Chapter XXVII:
- O' Sundays they stuffed their puddings with puddings, chitterlings, links, Bologna sausages, forced-meats, liverings, hogs' haslets, young quails, and teals. You must also always add cheese for the first course, and mustard for the last.
- c. 1610s, Homer (attributed), translated by George Chapman, The Crowne of all Homers Workes: Batrachomyomachia, or the Battaile of Frogs and Mise […], published 1624:
- Livering puddings white-skinn'd.
References
- “livering”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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