grits
noun/ɡrɪts/
/ɡrɪts/
[plural]- corn (maize) that is pressed into small pieces before cooking, often eaten for breakfast or as part of a meal in the southern USWord OriginOld English grytt, grytte ‘bran, mill dust’, of Germanic origin: related to Dutch grutten, German Grütze.
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