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Definition: Frumenty |
FrumentyNoun1. Sweet spiced porridge made from hulled wheat. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "frumenty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1872. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Food | Alligator pear, apple; apple slump; artichoke; ashcake, griddlecake, pancake, flapjack; atole, avocado, banana, beche de mer, barbecue, beefsteak; beet root; blackberry, blancmange, bloater, bouilli, bouillon, breadfruit, chop suey; chowder, chupatty, clam, compote, damper, fish, frumenty, grapes, hasty pudding, ice cream, lettuce, mango, mangosteen, mince pie, oatmeal, oyster, pineapple, porridge, porterhouse steak, salmis, sauerkraut, sea slug, sturgeon ("Albany beef"), succotash, supawn, trepang, vanilla, waffle, walnut. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Boil an approved quantity of wheat; when soft, pour off the water, and keep it for use as it is wanted. The method of using it is to put milk to make it of an agreeable thickness; then, warming it, adding some sugar and nutmeg.
See also: Wikipedia Cookbook
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Frumenty."
Crosswords: Frumenty |
| English words defined with "frumenty": Furmity. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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frumenty | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "frumenty"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Greek | τραχανάσ. (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | tejes búza, pempő (mush), gabona (cereal, corn, crops cut up by the hail, grain, grain crop), búzakása, búza (corn, wheat). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | umentyfray sữa (fresh, furmety, punch). (various references) | ||||||||||
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"Frumenty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Fromentin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "frumenty" (pronounced 'Fru"men*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: furmenty. | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-m-n-r-t-u-y" | |
-1 letter: furmety, turfmen. | |
-2 letters: frenum, tumefy. | |
-3 letters: entry, femur, ferny, fumer, fumet, muter, rumen, runty, tuner, turfy, tuyer, unmet. | |
-4 letters: fern, fret, fume, fumy, fury, menu, mure, mute, neum, reft, rent, rune, runt, term, tern, tref, trey, true, tune, turf, turn, tyer, tyne, tyre, yurt. | |
-5 letters: eft, emf, emu, ern, fem, fen, fer, fet, feu, fey. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 72 75 6D 65 6E 74 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .-. ..- -- . -. - -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01110010 01110101 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F r u m e n t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0072 0075 006D 0065 006E 0074 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4084877971808691 |
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