Meaning
Dried, hulled corn kernels, boiled soft and cooked into 'hominy corn porridge' — a thick, comforting breakfast porridge made with coconut milk, condensed milk, nutmeg, cinnamon, and vanilla. A hearty, filling start to the day, and one of the classic Jamaican porridges alongside cornmeal, oats, and peanut.
Examples
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She cook a pot a hominy corn porridge.
She cooked a pot of hominy corn porridge.
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Hominy corn thick an sweet wid coconut milk.
Hominy corn is thick and sweet with coconut milk.
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Nuttn warm yuh like hominy corn a maanin.
Nothing warms you like hominy corn in the morning.
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She bwile di hominy corn slow till it soft an creamy.
She boiled the hominy corn slowly until it was soft and creamy.
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A bowl a hominy porridge fill yuh up.
A bowl of hominy porridge fills you up.
Origin
'Hominy' from an Algonquian word for hulled corn; a staple porridge grain across the Americas and the Caribbean. See Cornmeal, Porridge.
How it’s used
Hulled corn boiled into a sweet, spiced breakfast porridge. See Cornmeal, Porridge.